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| | Acadia: Origin of the Word by Bill Casselman |
 | | More than half of Canada's present Acadian population of approximately 400,000 have forebears who came from the historic French provinces of Poitou, Aunis, Santonge, and Guyenne. |
 | | Like all dialects, Acadian has its own slang, and its own word for this argot, chiac, based on a local pronunciation of Shédiac, an Acadian town in New Brunswick, also famous for its Shediac oysters. |
 | | Chiac has plenty of Acadian words from old French dialects, and some North American English borrowings transformed by Acadian French spellings and pronunciations. |
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