Editing Canadian English (section)

==== British Columbia ====
{{See also|Pacific Northwest English}}
British Columbia English shares dialect features with both Standard Canadian English and the American Pacific Northwest English. In [[Vancouver]], speakers exhibit more vowel retraction of {{IPA|/æ/}} before nasals than people from [[Toronto]], and this retraction may become a regional marker of West Coast English.<ref>Erin Hall "Regional variation in Canadian English vowel backing"</ref> {{IPA|/ɛɡ/}} raising (found in words such as beg, leg, and peg) and {{IPA|/æɡ/}} raising (found words such as bag, lag and rag), a prominent feature in Northwestern American speakers, is also found in Vancouver speakers, causing "beg" to sound like the first syllable of "bagel" and "bag" to be similar.<ref>{{Cite journal
| last    = Swan
| first   = Julia
| year    = 2016
| title   = Canadian English in the Pacific Northwest: A phonetic comparison of Vancouver, BC and Seattle, WA
| journal = Proceedings of the 2016 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association
}}</ref><ref>{{Cite thesis |last=Swan |first=Julia Thomas |type=PhD |title=Language Ideologies, Border Effects, and Dialectal Variation: Evidence from /æ/, /aʊ/, and /aɪ/ in Seattle, WA and Vancouver, B.C. |url=https://www.academia.edu/27285498 |publisher=University of Chicago}}</ref> In the past, the ANAE reported that Vancouverites' participation in the Canadian raising of {{IPA|/aɪ/}} was questionable,<ref>{{Harvcoltxt|Labov|Ash|Boberg|2006|p=206}}</ref> but nowadays they tend to raise both {{IPA|/aɪ/}} and {{IPA|/aʊ/}}.<ref name=":2" /> The "o" in such words as ''holy, goal, load, know,'' etc. is pronounced as a close-mid back rounded vowel, {{IPA|[o]}}, but not as rounded as in the Prairies where there are strong Scandinavian, Slavic and German influences, which can lend to a more stereotypical "Canadian" accent.

Finally, there is also the /t/ sound which according to Gregg (2016), "with many [Vancouver] speakers [is] intrusive between /l/ or /n/ and /s/ in words like sense {{IPA|/sɛnts/}}, Wilson /wɪltsən/ [and] also /'ɒltsoʊ/ ".<ref>{{cite journal | doi=10.1017/S000841310002483X | title=Notes on the Pronunciation of Canadian English as Spoken in Vancouver, B.C. | date=1957 | last1=Gregg | first1=R. J. | journal=Canadian Journal of Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique | volume=3 | pages=20–26 }}</ref>