Ged Murphy wrote: ...
After Alex noted about the Canadian version, I had a quick look for the English Canadian sublang ID, but I couldn't find anything. Do English speaking Canadians use the US language?
While things may be different now, and may vary by location, but from my observations when I lived in British Columbia (mid 80s to early 90s); yes and no; the U.S. variant of English is accepted as valid, but generally not used nor taught -- that is to say when going to public school, words were taught with a more en-UK spelling ('re' instead of 'er', 'our' instead of 'or', and words pronounced like bean for 'been' and shedule for 'schedule') but a teacher would not mark wrong (and my dictionaries include both) the use of U.S. spelling (er [center vs centre], or [color vs colour], etc). There may actually be an official ruling though, since english (and french) is actually a national language in Canada unlike english in the U.S.
Jeremy