Talk:Ontarian French

No such dialect
There is no such dialect as "Ontarian French"; therefore, this article should simply be deleted. Francophone Ontarians speak Quebec French due to long-standing historical, economic, cultural, and religious ties to Quebec and Montreal (fur trade, settlement, direct control of churches from the Montréal bishop, media, etc.). Moreover, the examples are misleading since both "truck" and "pick-up" are commonly used in informal Quebec French.

What distinguishes the Franco-Ontarians' speech, overall, is their degree of French-English bilingualism, not French usage. Remember, there is absolutely no change in dialect when you cross from Ottawa to Gatineau or from Grenville to Hawkesbury. Remember also that Sudbury and Timmins are relatively close to Quebec; their francophones, who are in the minority there, are of the most bilingual in Canada. CJ Withers 20:47, 3 May 2006 (UTC)


 * I'd have to agree. The (completely unsourced) article seems to suugest that Ontario French is a separate dialect simply due to the increased use of English words.  Does that make Quebec English a separate dialect because they tend to use words like "dep"?  Complete nonsense.  Merge into Quebec French.  Skeezix1000 11:56, 11 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Being a franco-ontarian myself, I don't recognize any difference between Quebec and Ontarian french. The words "truck" and "pick-up" are also very misleading; I've almost never heard someone use these words (unless speaking english). Among the older generation, whereas most could not have french education past 8th grade, a lot more anglicisms are used, but nowadays, it's not a very convincing factor for declaring ontarian french a very distinct/different dialect. Anyhow, I've applied a redirect to Franco-Ontarian, which was basically were this article had came from. Io Katai 09:41, 26 March 2007 (UTC)