University of Rochester linguist Andrew Bray started out studying the evolution of the trademark sports jargon used in hockey for his master’s thesis. For instance, a hockey arena is a “barn,” while ...

As a hockey player, Andrew Bray was familiar with the slang thrown around the "barn" (hockey arena). As a linguist, he wanted to understand how sport-specific jargon evolved and permeated across teams ...

Having holidayed and lived over a lot of Canada, I've never heard 'aboot'. I worked with Newfs, and their language is distinctive, but even they didn't use it. BTW, Wayne's accent dialect on ...

I remember arriving at the Halifax airport after my first long trip abroad. It was 2014, and I'd just spent eight months in Europe mostly in countries where English was a second language. I had spent ...

One of the great things about moving from the UK to Canada is there's no language barrier to worry about (unless you land in Quebec, of course). Or so I thought. Sure, Canadians speak English, but ...

Hockey players are famous for their distinctive jargon, but while researching this phenomenon, a linguist and hockey player realized another interesting pattern in hockey speech: American hockey ...