British Columbia English

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/British_Columbia_English
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Statements (101)
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gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:dialect
gptkbp:hasFeature gptkb:Canadian_Shift
unique regional vocabulary
Canadian raising
cot–caught merger
use of 'hydro' for electricity
use of 'washroom' for restroom
use of 'the Island' for Vancouver Island
distinct pronunciation of 'about'
distinct pronunciation of 'bag'
influence from American English
influence from British English
influence from immigrant languages
use of 'eh' as a tag
use of 'loonie' and 'toonie'
use of 'skookum'
use of 'the Abbotsford area'
use of 'the Agassiz area'
use of 'the Alaska Highway'
use of 'the Alberni Valley'
use of 'the Arrow Lakes'
use of 'the Bulkley Valley'
use of 'the Campbell River area'
use of 'the Cariboo Mountains'
use of 'the Cariboo Road'
use of 'the Cariboo'
use of 'the Cascade Mountains'
use of 'the Central Coast'
use of 'the Chilcotin'
use of 'the Chilliwack area'
use of 'the Coast Mountains'
use of 'the Columbia'
use of 'the Comox Valley'
use of 'the Coquihalla Highway'
use of 'the Cowichan Valley'
use of 'the Crowsnest Highway'
use of 'the Duncan area'
use of 'the East Kootenay'
use of 'the Fraser Canyon'
use of 'the Fraser Valley area'
use of 'the Fraser Valley'
use of 'the Gold Rush Trail'
use of 'the Greater Vancouver area'
use of 'the Gulf Islands'
use of 'the Harrison Hot Springs area'
use of 'the Hope area'
use of 'the Insular Mountains'
use of 'the Interior Plateau'
use of 'the Interior'
use of 'the Island Highway'
use of 'the Kootenays'
use of 'the Ladysmith area'
use of 'the Lake Cowichan area'
use of 'the Lower Mainland'
use of 'the Malahat'
use of 'the Metro Vancouver area'
use of 'the Mission area'
use of 'the Monashee Mountains'
use of 'the Nanaimo area'
use of 'the Nicola'
use of 'the North Shore'
use of 'the North'
use of 'the Okanagan'
use of 'the Pacific Rim Highway'
use of 'the Parksville area'
use of 'the Pat Bay Highway'
use of 'the Peace'
use of 'the Pemberton area'
use of 'the Port Alberni area'
use of 'the Purcell Mountains'
use of 'the Qualicum Beach area'
use of 'the Rocky Mountains'
use of 'the Saanich Peninsula'
use of 'the Sea-to-Sky Highway'
use of 'the Sea-to-Sky'
use of 'the Selkirk Mountains'
use of 'the Shuswap'
use of 'the Sidney area'
use of 'the Similkameen'
use of 'the Skeena'
use of 'the Slocan'
use of 'the Sooke area'
use of 'the South Coast'
use of 'the Squamish area'
use of 'the Sunshine Coast'
use of 'the Thompson'
use of 'the Tofino area'
use of 'the Trans-Canada Highway'
use of 'the Ucluelet area'
use of 'the Victoria area'
use of 'the West Coast'
use of 'the West Kootenay'
use of 'the Whistler area'
use of 'the Yellowhead Highway'
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label British Columbia English
gptkbp:language English
gptkbp:languageFamily gptkb:Canadian_English
gptkbp:region gptkb:Western_Canada
gptkbp:spokenIn gptkb:British_Columbia
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Chinook_Jargon
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6