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English dialects in Quebec, Canada

Quebec English encompasses the English dialects (both native and non native) of the predominantly French speaking Canadian province of Quebec. There are few distinctive phonological features and very few restricted lexical features common among English speaking Quebecers. The native English speakers in Quebec generally align to Standard Canadian English, one of the largest and most relatively homogeneous dialects in North America. This standard English accent is common in Montreal, where the vast majority of Quebec's native English speakers live. English speaking Montrealers have, however, established ethnic groups that retain certain lexical features: Irish, Jewish, Italian, and Greek communities that all speak discernible varieties of English. Isolated fishing villages on the Basse Côte Nord of Quebec speak Newfoundland English, and many Gaspesian English speakers use Maritime English. Francophone speakers of Quebec (including Montreal) also have their own second language English that incorporates French accent features, vocabulary, etc. Finally, the Kahnawake Mohawks of south shore Montreal and the Cree and Inuit of Northern Quebec speak English with their own distinctive accents, usage, and expressions from their indigenous languages.

The following are native English (anglophone) phenomena unique to Quebec, particularly studied in Montreal English and spoken by the Quebec Anglophone minority in the Montreal area. Before the 1970s, minority language English had the status of a co official language in Quebec.

Quebec English is heavily influenced by English and French. The phrases and words below show the variation of meaning in the Quebec English dialect. Delay: an amount of time given before a deadline. "I was given a delay of 2 weeks before my project was due". the Collège de Maisonneuve, Québec Solidaire, the Parti québécois, Hochelaga Maisonneuve, and Trois Rivières. English toponyms in place of French (nonstandard when written): Older generations of English speaking Montrealers are more likely to informally use traditional English toponyms that vary from official, French language toponyms. In a notable generational distinction, it is uncommon among younger English speaking Quebecers. Examples include Pine Avenue, Park Avenue, Mountain Street, Dorchester Blvd., St. James Street – often used without St., Blvd., Ave., Rd., etc. (names for the designations "avenue des Pins", "av. du Parc", "rue de la Montagne", "boulevard René Lévesque", "rue St Jacques"; the English language official designations have reputedly been revoked, but evidence for that is difficult to find); Guy and Saint Catherine Streets; Town of Mount Royal, as it was chartered, and the charter has not been revoked; and Pointe Claire (pronounced or with English T and R and typography, instead of official "Pointe Claire" with the French accent).

The pronunciation of French language first and last names that uses mostly French sounds may be mispronounced by speakers of other languages. For example, the pronounced "r" sound and the silent "d" of "Bouchard" may be both pronounced: French speakers and Quebec English speakers are more likely to vary such pronunciations, depending on the manner in which they adopt an English phonological framework. That includes names like Mario Lemieux, Marie Claire Blais, Jean Charest, Jean Chrétien, Robert Charlebois, and Céline Dion.

Francophone second language speakers of English use an interlanguage with varying degrees, ranging from French accented pronunciation to Quebec Anglophone English pronunciation. High frequency second language phenomena by francophones, allophones, and other non native speakers occur in the most basic structures of English, both in and outside of Quebec. Commonly called "Frenglish" or "franglais", such phenomena are a product of interlanguage, calques, or mistranslation and thus may not constitute so called "Quebec English" to the extent that they can be conceived of separately, particularly since such phenomena are similar for Francophone speakers of English throughout the world, which leaves little to be specific to Quebec.

Francophones speaking English often pronounce / instead of /, and some also pronounce for the phoneme , and some mispronounce some words, some pronounce a full vowel instead of a schwa, such as for message. Since French speakers greatly outnumber English speakers in most regions of Quebec, it is more common to hear French in public. Some Anglophones in overwhelmingly Francophone areas use some of the features (especially the replacement of and by [t] and [d]), but their English is remarkably similar to that of other varieties of English in Canada (Poplack, Walker, & Malcolmson 2006).

There is also a pronunciation (NP) of the phoneme as /n/ + /ɡ/ (among some Italian Montrealers) or /n/ + /k/ (among some Jewish Montrealers, especially those who grew up speaking Yiddish), such as by high degrees of ethnic connectivity within, for instance, municipalities, boroughs, or neighbourhoods on Montreal Island, such as Saint Léonard and Outremont/Côte des Neiges/Côte Saint Luc. Such phenomena occur as well in other diaspora areas such as New York City.