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Title: Professional Editor's Corner Canadian Spelling and Hyphenation


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Professional Editor's Corner Canadian Spelling
and Hyphenation
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  • Billions of people around the world speak
    English. Youd think that this would facilitate
    communication, and it does. For the most part.
    Unfortunately, we have four major types of
    English (American, Australian, British, and
    Canadian), and when it comes to idioms and
    written communication, they differ somewhat.
  • Here I will begin guiding you through the major
    aspects of Canadian English. Lets start with
    spelling.
  • Canadian English uses a combination of American
    and British spelling rules.

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  • 1. Use the American form for ise/ize verbs and
    related nouns
  • civilize, commercialize, idealize, lionize,
    minimize, normalize, optimize, organize,
    patronize, recognize
  • 2. Use the British form for nouns ending in
    or/our
  • ardor, color, Endeavour, favor, flavor, honor,
    humor, labor, misdemeanor, neighbor, odor
  • 3. Use the British form for nouns ending in
    re/er
  • caliber, centre, epicenter, kilometer, scepter,
    theatre

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  • 4. Use the British form for verbs ending in
    l/ll
  • enrol enrolment, fulfil fulfilment, instil
  • 5. Use the British form for nouns ending in
    ce/se
  • defence, licence, offence, pretence
  • 6. Use the British form of verbs (past tense)
    ending in l
  • cancelled, carolled, counselled, grovelled,
    modelled, labelled, marshalled, quarrelled,
    signalled, travelled

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  • 7. Use the American form when choosing between
    ae/oe and e
  • archeology, anaemia, cesarean, chimera,
    diarrhoea, ecumenical, encyclopedia, eon,
    medieval, primeval
  • Exceptions aesthetic and onomatopoeia
  • For words not covered by the above general rules,
    consult the Oxford Canadian Dictionary online
    (free for spelling) or the Gage Canadian
    Dictionary.
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  • Canadian Hyphenation
  • Canadian hyphenation follows American English for
    the most part (see the Chicago Manual of Style
    for more details), but we do see a couple of
    major differences.
  • 1. Adjective participle (ing or ed)
  • In American English, we hyphenate these compounds
    before nouns BUT NOT after.
  • The researcher asked 20 open-ended questions.

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  • BUT
  • When questions are open ended, participants have
    greater freedom to share their experiences.
  • In Canadian English, we ALWAYS use hyphens for
    such compounds, no matter where they appear in
    the sentence.
  • My sister is a hard-working person. I wish I
    could be more hard-working.
  • 2. Adjective gerund
  • In American English, we dont pay attention to
    whether an adjective-gerund compound takes an
    object.

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  • We simply hyphenate when such compounds precede
    nouns (that they describe) and omit the hyphen
    when they do not.
  • Dry cleaning involves harsh chemicals.
  • The dry-cleaning process is complicated.
  • Canadian English follows the above convention,
    but makes a distinction for when the compound
    takes an object.
  • Dry-cleaning 20 shirts (AN OBJECT) in an hour is
    hard.
  • Dry cleaning is not something I want to learn.

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  • Remember A gerund is an ing word (looks like a
    verb) that acts like a noun (we use gerunds
    anywhere we could use a regular noun). For
    example Swimming (a gerund) is fun!
  • Now that you have some basics under your belt, go
    out there and try your Canadian!

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