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<h2 id="phonological-features">Phonological features</h2> <p>The phonemes /ɔː/, /ʌ/ and /ɒ/ tend to <a href="/facts/Phonetic_merger/NvbHWeC0">merge</a> to /ɔː/, making "cot", "caught" and "cut" homophones.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> Similarly, "lock" and "luck" are pronounced alike. And "<a href="/facts/White-collar_worker/ckJEIdEM">white-collar worker</a>" sometimes becomes "white-<i>colour</i> worker" in Cameroon.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="expressions">Expressions</h2> <p>Characteristic turns of phrase in the country or local coinages:<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> </p> <ul><li>"detailly" = in detail</li> <li>"to see with me" = to agree with me; to see my point of view</li> <li>"installmentally" = by installments</li> <li>"of recent" = recently; lately</li></ul> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Languages_of_Cameroon/pdTVt9Sv">Languages of Cameroon</a> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Cameroonian_French/blPg7woU">Cameroonian French</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Cameroonian_Pidgin_English/Q5cGmexW">Cameroonian Pidgin English</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Camfranglais/CT54jMPQ">Camfranglais</a> (when mixed with French)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/facts/Anglophone_Cameroonian/NxlNsKkl">Anglophone Cameroonian</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Anglophone_problem_(Cameroon)/3IIj5rlJ">Anglophone problem (Cameroon)</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Commonwealth_English/FfHnv1CT">Commonwealth English</a></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060917043540/http://www2.univ-reunion.fr/~ageof/text/74c21e88-656.html">https://web.archive.org/web/20060917043540/http://www2.univ-reunion.fr/~ageof/text/74c21e88-656.html</a></li></ul> <h2 id="further-reading">Further reading</h2> <ul><li>Kouega, Jean-Paul (2007). <i>A Dictionary of Cameroon English Usage</i>. New York: Peter Lang. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-3-03911-027-8.</li> <li>Kouega, Jean-Paul (1999). Some Major Speech Traits of Cameroon Media News in English. <i>English Studies</i> 80(6), 540-555</li> <li>Kouega, Jean-Paul (2000). Some Aspects of Cameroon English Prosody. <i>Alizes</i>, 19, 137-153</li> <li>Kouega, Jean-Paul (2003). Influence of Contacts between Western and African Cultures on English in Cameroon. <i>Proceedings of the Unifying Aspects of Cultures conference at Vienna</i>, Austria, November 7–9.</li> <li>In: TRANS. Internet-Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften. No. 15/2003, (2003). WWW: <a href="http://www.inst.at/trans/15Nr/07_2/kouega15.htm">http://www.inst.at/trans/15Nr/07_2/kouega15.htm</a>[<i>permanent dead link</i>].</li> <li>Kouega, Jean-Paul (2005). The Effects of French on English L2 in Cameroon. In J. Cohen, K. T. McAlister, K. Rolstad, and J. MacSwan (Eds.) <i>ISB4: Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism</i> (pp. 1201–1210). Somerville, MA, USA: Cascadilla Press.</li> <li>Kouega, Jean-Paul, (2006). <i>Aspects of Cameroon English Usage: A Lexical Appraisal</i>. Muenchen, Germany: Lincom Europa. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 3-89586-877-9</li> <li>Kouega, Jean-Paul (2006c). Interplay of Accent and Orthography in L2 English in Cameroon. <i>Annals of the Faculty of Arts, Letters and Social Sciences</i>, University of Yaounde 1(5), 183-197</li> <li>Kouega, Jean-Paul (2007). <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160702025904/http://www.aaref.com.au/attachment.aspx?id=2111">Forenames in Cameroon English speech</a>. The <i><a href="http://www.aaref.com.au/en/publications/journal/journal-articles/issue-23-2007/">International Journal of Language, Society and Culture</a></i>, 23, 32–46.</li> <li>Talla Sando Ouafeu Yves (2006). Intonational meaning in Cameroon English discourse: a sociolinguistic perspective. Goettingen: Cuvillier Verlag</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Pearce, Michael (10 September 2012). The Routledge Dictionary of English Language Studies. Routledge. p. 200. ISBN 978-1-134-26428-5. <a href="978-1-134-26428-5" target="_blank">978-1-134-26428-5</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Kouega (2007): "Cameroon is a Central African country whose variety of English shares a number of features with West African Englishes." <a href="/wiki/Central_Africa" target="_blank">/wiki/Central_Africa</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Anchimbe, Eric A. "Multilingual backgrounds and the identity issue in Cameroon." Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca" Julio de Urquijo" 39.2 (2011): 33-48. <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Pearce, Michael (10 September 2012). The Routledge Dictionary of English Language Studies. Routledge. p. 200. ISBN 978-1-134-26428-5. <a href="978-1-134-26428-5" target="_blank">978-1-134-26428-5</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Todd, Loreto (1982). Cameroon. Varieties of English Around the World. John Benjamins Publishing. p. 83. ISBN 90-272-8670-1. <a href="90-272-8670-1" target="_blank">90-272-8670-1</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Todd, Loreto (1982). Cameroon. Varieties of English Around the World. John Benjamins Publishing. p. 83. ISBN 90-272-8670-1. <a href="90-272-8670-1" target="_blank">90-272-8670-1</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>