“When people choose a particular word, they’re doing it for a very specific reason.”
The history of Lake Ontario is “embedded in local identity”, so Canadians will “keep calling it what they call it”, says professor of linguistics at the University of Toronto Sali Tagliamonte.
Sali Tagliamonte was speaking to Tom Whipple (in for Ayesha Hazarika) on Times Radio. Listen live every Friday, 1pm-4pm.
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