Even admitting that there has been a decrease in the use of glided pronunciations over successive generations (Clarke 2006: 232), any appreciable increase in glideless variants may simply be the product of independent parallel trends in glide deletion that are widely attested in other varieties of English (Halford 2008). Moreover, Clarke’s (2006) analysis of glide retention in media usage, supplemented by data culled from a number of sociolinguistic studies, points to a complex interplay of social and linguistic constraints governing variant choice in Canadian English. Specifically, Clarke (2006: 244) notes that within Canada, glided and glideless pronunciations may index different social meanings for different members of the same speech community, militating against the idea that in selecting glideless variants, Canadians are simply targeting American English as an external prestige variety.