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This article is written in Canadian English, which has its own spelling conventions (colour, centre, travelled, realize, analyze) and some terms may be different or absent from other varieties of English. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus.

Continuous underline symbol

Latest comment: 5 years ago2 comments1 person in discussion

I wonder if an editor familiar with this subject would have a look at underline#Continuous underline symbol (⎁), please? It only has two lines and the second is a supposition than needs a citation and/or a correction. Thank you. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 17:28, 21 May 2021 (UTC)Reply

For your convenience, this is the current text of the section:

In Canadian French, it is correct orthography to underline the masculine and feminine ordinal indicators and standard keyboards are engraved accordingly:^[1] a symbol, an underlined 'letter a with ellipsis' (U+2381 ⎁ CONTINUOUS UNDERLINE SYMBOL), is available to document this use.^{[citation needed]}^[a].

Comments welcome. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 19:13, 21 May 2021 (UTC)Reply

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↑ "Clavier normalisé – CAN/CSA Z243.200-92 – Pictogrammes ISO 9995-7" (in French). Office québécois de la langue française. Retrieved 19 January 2015. See also ISO/IEC 9995#ISO/IEC 9995-7.

↑ There are no explicit codepoints for the underlined forms of the ordinal indicators: these are allographs of the Unicode standard glyphs U+00AA ª FEMININE ORDINAL INDICATOR and U+00BA º MASCULINE ORDINAL INDICATOR and thus the underlined forms are obtained using an appropriate font.

Anglicisms in Canadian French

Latest comment: 8 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

I've seen "char" for "car" quoted as being an Anglicism. This is not correct. Char is an old French word for a cart. Exists also in English, albeit no longer in use, in the (French) term char-à-banc (pronounced sharrabang in English, sometimes abbreviated to sharra). In French it's literally a cart with a bench, an early expression in English for what we would now call a coach. 2A06:61C1:77D7:0:5166:DB6B:B6D5:5C32 (talk) 12:51, 1 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

[1] "Clavier normalisé – CAN/CSA Z243.200-92 – Pictogrammes ISO 9995-7" (in French). Office québécois de la langue française. Retrieved 19 January 2015. See also ISO/IEC 9995#ISO/IEC 9995-7.

[2] There are no explicit codepoints for the underlined forms of the ordinal indicators: these are allographs of the Unicode standard glyphs U+00AA ª FEMININE ORDINAL INDICATOR and U+00BA º MASCULINE ORDINAL INDICATOR and thus the underlined forms are obtained using an appropriate font.

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Anglicisms in Canadian French