joualn.

1959 Le Devoir (Montreal) 21 Oct. 4/6 Faut-il expliquer ce que c'est que parler joual?... Tout y passe: les syllabes mangées, le vocabulaire tronqué ou élargi, toujours dans le même sens, les phrases qui boitent, la vulgarité virile, la voix qui fait de son mieux pour être canaille.]

1962 M. Chapin tr. J. P. Desbiens Impertinences of Brother Anonymous 27 Our pupils talk joual, write joual, and don't want to talk or write any other way. Joual is their language.

1962 M. Chapin tr. J. P. Desbiens Impertinences of Brother Anonymous 30 To be understood, I often must have recourse to one or another joual expression.

1963 Maclean's 16 Nov. 54/3 [I] have less trouble with workers' joual than with Montreal cabdrivers.

1965 New Statesman 10 Dec. 931/1 The uneducated [in Quebec] often speak a patois which is not even a genuine dialect so much as a lazy slurring—it is known as joual, which reproduces the pronunciation of cheval.

1972 Evening Telegram (St. John's, Newfoundland) 5 Aug. 36/7 Michel Tremblay's play, Les Belles-Soeurs, done in the joual.

1972 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 15 Oct. 15/1 The French is mere tokenism, too; a few words or sentences of high-school français and joual sandwiched between paragraphs of English.

1973 N.Y. Times 22 Apr. 14/3 There are six million Canadians whose native language is French, but much of what they say would be baffling to a Parisian because many of them speak a patois known as ‘Joual’, its name drawn from the way some rural people in Quebec pronounce the word ‘cheval’ or horse.

1975 Canadian Forum (Toronto) Oct. 7/2 In some of his books he lapses into joual.