Harry Schwartz Eats the World

English in Montreal

Montreal’s heterogeneous linguistic environment has done some interesting things to the English language:

“Instead of turning off the lights, you close the lights. You have a coffee instead of having coffee. You fall pregnant instead of getting pregnant,” he says.

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