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Canadian raisings

Canadian raisings is the plural of Canadian raising.

Meaning of Canadian raising

Noun

Canadian raising (countable and uncountable, plural Canadian raisings)

  1. The phenomenon in some dialects of English, especially Canadian English, in which /aɪ/ is realized as [ʌɪ] and/or /aʊ/ is realized as [ʌʊ] or [ɛʊ] before underlying unvoiced consonants.
  2. A similar but more restricted phenomenon, found in most dialects of American English, that applies only to /aɪ/, which is realized as [ʌɪ] in certain contexts, especially before underlying unvoiced consonants but with significant speaker-to-speaker variation.

Questions about Canadian raisings

What is Canadian raisings the plural of?
Canadian raisings is the plural of Canadian raising.

Words near Canadian raisings in the dictionary

  1. Canadian poplar
  2. Canadian porcupine
  3. Canadian porcupines
  4. Canadian Prairies
  5. Canadian raising
  6. Canadian raisings
  7. Canadian red pine
  8. Canadian red pines
  9. Canadian Rockies
  10. Canadian Shield
  11. Canadian soldier

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Canadian raisings (page history and authors); Canadian raising (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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