Editing Canadian English (section)

===Canadian dainty===
{{anchor|Canadian dainty}} Historically, Canadian English included a class-based [[sociolect]] known as ''Canadian dainty''.<ref name=dainty>[http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/canadian-dainty-accent-canada-day-1.4167610 "Some Canadians used to speak with a quasi-British accent called Canadian Dainty"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170705044421/http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/canadian-dainty-accent-canada-day-1.4167610 |date=5 July 2017 }}. [[CBC News]], 1 July 2017.</ref> Treated as a marker of upper-class prestige in the 19th and early 20th centuries, Canadian dainty was marked by the use of some features of [[British English]] pronunciation, resulting in an accent similar, but not identical, to the [[Good American Speech|Mid-Atlantic accent]] known in the United States.<ref name=dainty /> This accent faded in prominence following [[World War II]], when it became stigmatized as pretentious, and is now rare.<ref name=dainty />  The governor general [[Vincent Massey]], the writer and broadcaster [[Peter Stursberg]], the actor [[Lorne Greene]], and the actor [[Christopher Plummer]]<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Edelstein|first=David|date=May 27, 2011|title=Christopher Plummer on His Pivotal Film Roles|url=https://nymag.com/movies/features/christopher-plummer-2011-6/|url-access=limited|magazine=[[New York (magazine)|New York]]|access-date=January 5, 2025}}</ref> are examples of men who were raised in Canada but spoke with a British-influenced accent.<ref name=dainty />