Linguistics - University of Toronto Magazine

Drawing Connections

Professor Ai Taniguchi explores how art and language can bring us together

U of T linguists have partnered with an Indigenous community member to bring the Munsee dialect back from the brink of extinction

Youth are drawing from several languages spoken by the city’s immigrants to create a novel form of English

Canadian meanings of “soaker” and “bush party” don’t exist in the Oxford English Dictionary. A U of T linguistics prof is aiming to change that

Small-town Ontario English preserves older terms that have fallen out of use in the province’s larger cities

Teens use a lot of instant messaging terms, but not in spoken conversation, study finds

Retiring linguistics prof identified unique characteristics of Canadian speech

A not-so-definitive guide to mountain biking slang

A popular sitcom may be changing the way we speak

A Toronto couple’s gift will help preserve a declining language

Some men may subconsciously adopt certain female speech patterns

Canadian English is not being Americanized to the extent once thought, and in fact the reverse is also happening