Article 19EWG Purists don't like this mix of Acadian French and English, but it may be helping the French language in Canada

Purists don't like this mix of Acadian French and English, but it may be helping the French language in Canada

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Story ImageIf you want to upset French language purists, learn to speak Chiac. It's a dialect of Acadian French spoken in New Brunswick that borrows liberally from English. Even as other North American dialects and languages are vanishing, Chiac seems to be sticking around.
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