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== For Englishes around the [[anglosphere]] ==
Canada's style is in flux, even aside from being a commingling of British and American influences plus Canadian innovations. There are several competing style guides, like ''The Canadian Style'' (which is old) and ''Editing Canadian English'', but they're not published very frequently, and they contradict each other a lot. One "Canadian" style guide, ''A Canadian Writer's Reference'' (2016), intended as a classroom manual, is just a tweaked American one, by an American author, put out with a new cover; it is not a reliable sources on Canadian norms. The ''Canadian Press Stylebook'' pretty closely follows ''AP'', except on various Briticisms used commonly in Canada (''-our'', ''-re'', etc.). ''[[The Gregg Reference Manual]]'', for business writing, also exists in a Canadian edition (2014), but is American-authored.
The Australian government style guide, while intended for public not just governmental use, is generally excoriated; some of its recommendations have caused minor political disputes, and even "most public servants ignore it".<ref>{{cite web |url= https://contentgroup.com.au/2016/05/australian-government-style-guide/ |title=The document the Australian government hasn’t updated in 14 years |author=<!--Staff writers; no individual by-line.--> |work=ContentGroup.com.au |date=2 May 2016 |publisher=Content Group |___location=Canberra}}</ref> A new edition has been in the planning stages for years, but even if it came out tomorrow, it would be too soon for it to have any effect on Australian usage any time soon, much less on Wikipedia. The Cambridge book has an Australian edition, ''The Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage''; it is already over a decade old, and is almost word-for-word identical to the UK edition, aside from a few .au colloquialism tweaks.
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