Why Canada Isn't Part of the US
Other peeps, hating on how American phrases are becoming normal, straight up dissed Canadian English by saying it's like "a messed up way of talking that's spreading among our peeps, and it's slowly getting into our lit, until it's about to become a language that's nothing like our awesome mother tongue, kinda like negro patua or Chinese pidgeon English" (Reverend A. Constable Geike 1857, quoted in Orkin 1970: 9). Geike totally roasted the invasion of those Americanisms like "guess for think [or] betterments for improvements to new land" (qtd. in Orkin 1970: 9). He like totally hated on words that he obviously thought were Canadianisms, even though they were actually American borrowings: first class meaning 'able, great, capable', loaned instead There are like so many types of English, ya know? Some are like totally legit and recognized everywhere, while others are kinda sus and not as well-known. They're like part of the more establ...