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Typical Canadian pronunciation is found in Quebec English, such as raising--actually incomplete shifting--of the /au/ phoneme, and the Briticisms been /bin/, tourniquet / `t\?\rnike/, and again /\?\gen.
On page 379 Green writes: There are, after all, a number of books of Americanisms but none, although there have been plans to fill this gap, of Briticisms.
I am reminded of an incident that took place some twenty years ago, when I first began visiting Britain regularly and was unfamiliar with nonliterary Briticisms.
For example, serviette, scone, sheila, sister, Smarties, spanner, spot on, squash, starkers , just to pick a handful, are Briticisms; although the author makes that clear, it seems odd that the words and expressions that are direct borrowings from British English are not individually identified as such.
Elsewhere, Briticisms might be felt to intrude in definitions, with words like dustman, dock-porter , etc., appearing here and there.