Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cape breton accents

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The result of the debate was keep. —Korath (Talk) 01:22, Mar 29, 2005 (UTC)

Cape breton accents

Article on accents particular to Cape Bretton, unencyclopedic, delete--nixie 03:20, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

• Keep, quite a poor stub but a valid topic. - SimonP 03:25, Mar 23, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, valid topic, like California English Kappa 03:38, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Keep/Move, agreed with the above but should be Cape Breton accents - Jord 05:04, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. --Spinboy 06:06, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • If moving a project page, please move the VfD page as well.
• Sounds okay to me, but articles on localized accents shouldn't cover areas much smaller than this island. Keep. Radiant_* 11:15, Mar 23, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep At worst, merge into Canadian English. Circeus 12:14, Mar 23, 2005 (UTC)
• There's a big difference between this and California English, namely that there has been much published linguistic research devoted to California English, and AFAIK little or none published on the Cape Breton accent. What's already at this article is mostly nonsense: there's really no way the Cape Breton accent could be described as a pidgin, and the old canard about the exchange "Jeetchet? —No, Jew?" is certainly not restricted to Cape Breton. If I'm mistaken, and there has been published linguistic research on this accent, someone should summarize it, add it to the article, and cite their sources. But the article I see before more today should be deleted. --Angr 18:37, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Keep I understand that Cape Breton does have a distinctive accent that is quite recognizable. Does need to be cleaned up though... -- Webgeer 23:43, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, accentcruft. ComCat 05:32, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, but improve. Cape Breton Island is one of the most culturally distinct areas of English Canada. Polycarp
• Keep/Move (for correct capitalization) I don't see how this is "unencyclopedic". —Michael Z. 2005-03-26 14:36 Z
• Rename it Cape Breton English or Cape Breton dialect. does anyone with first-hand knowledge of Cape Breton vernacular sense that it does not exist as a characteristic form of english? i suspect the answer to this would be 'no' with an overwhelming majority (see Talk:Newfoundland English). the issue of there being nothing published on the subject though is an important one (see Angr above). in the end however, i stand by my intuition that tells me the dialect does exist and will someday be found to do so with research that gets published. - Mayumashu 16:25, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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