Canadian English

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Canadian English (CanE, CE, en-CA[1]) is the variety of English spoken in Canada
. English is the first language, or "mother tongue", of approximately 24 million
Canadians (77%), and more than 28 million (86%) are fluent in the language.[2]
82% of Canadians outside Quebec speak English natively, but within Quebec the fi
gure drops to just 7.7% as most residents are native speakers of Quebec French.[
3]
Canadian English contains elements of British English and American English in it
s vocabulary, as well as many distinctive Canadianisms. In many areas, speech is
influenced by French, and there are notable local variations.[4] The phonetics,
phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon for many regions/areas in Canada are
similar to that of the Western and Midland regions of the United States.[4] The
Canadian Great Lakes region has similarities to that of the Upper Midwest & Grea
t Lakes region and/or Yooper dialect (in particular Michigan which has extensive
cultural and economic ties with Ontario), while the phonological system of west
ern Canadian English is virtually identical to that of the Pacific Northwest of
the United States, and the phonetics are similar.[5] As such, Canadian English a
nd American English are sometimes classified together as North American English,
emphasizing the fact that the vast majority of outsiders even from English spea
king countries (and even some Anglophone Canadians and some Americans themselves
;- this excludes the French Canadians), cannot distinguish Canadian English from
American English by sound. Canadian English spelling is largely a blend of Brit
ish and American conventions.Cayley set forth the concept of the modern airplane
. He was building and flying models of fixed-wing aircraft in 1803, and he built
a successful passenger-carrying glider in 1853.[1] Between 1867 and 1896 the Ge
rman pioneer of human aviation Otto Lilienthal developed heavier-than-air flight
. The Wright brothers flights in 1903 are recognized as "the first sustained and
controlled heavier-than-air powered flight".[2] Following WWI, aircraft technol
ogy continued to develop. Airplanes had a presence in all the major battles of W
orld War II. The first jet aircraft was the German Heinkel He 178 in 1939. The f
irst jet airliner, the de Havilland Comet, was introduced in 1952. The Boeing 70
7, the first widely successful commercial jet, was in commercial service for mor
e than 50 years, from 1958 to 2010.