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Author : Bill Casselman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Casselman's Canadian Words written by Bill Casselman and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bill Casselman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781552782729
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (827 download)
Download or read book Canadian Sayings 2 written by Bill Casselman and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Folk sayings are passed by word of mouth in communities where life and work are shared, and Bill Casselman has collected 1,000 absolute beauties in this all new edition.
Author : Bill Casselman
Publisher : McArthur
ISBN 13 : 9781552785690
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (856 download)
Download or read book Canadian Words & Sayings written by Bill Casselman and published by McArthur. This book was released on 2006 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new anthology, Bill Casselman delights and startles with word stories from every province and territory of Canada. Did you know that to deke out is a Canadian verb that began as hockey slang, short for 'to decoy an opponent.' That Canada has a fish that ignites? On our Pacific coast, the oolichan or candlefish is so full of oil it can be lighted at one end and used as a candle.Did you know that the very first Skid Row or Skid Road in Canada was in Vancouver at the end of the 19th century? The term originated because out-of-work loggers drank in cheap saloons at the end of a road used to skid logs. Skids were greased logs used to slide rough timber to a waterway or railhead. The juicy lore and tangy tales of Canadian foods that founded a nation are here too: from scrunchins to rubbaboo, from bangbelly to poutine, from Winnipeg jambusters to Nanaimo bars. This is the book on Canada's words and sayings that should be in every house in the the country where people are proud to say: "That's Canadian, eh."
Author : Bill Casselman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781552784259
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (842 download)
Download or read book Canadian Sayings 3 written by Bill Casselman and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bill Casselman, Canada's master-gatherer of funny folk sayings, returns with fresh bounty--hundreds and hundreds of new folk sayings not collected in his previous two volumes of knee-slappers and girdle-splitters. Here are Canadian maxims galore, snappy saws and breezy national adages--enough to fill the barn of delight many times over. As always, Bill has divided these hilarious one-liners into dozens of categories redolent of human nature, categories like Stupidity, Sex Canadiana, Weather and Work. And Bill adds his own witty footnotes and explanations to those saying whose meanings may be lost in time. How about his apt squelch for a deeply annoying store clerk? "Miss, by standing behind the counter, you are depriving a village of their idiot." Bill Casselman writes about our words like no other Canadian--he is still being called "A Bluenose among schooners on the sea of popular etymology."
Author : Bill Casselman
Publisher : Boston ; Toronto : Little, Brown Canada
ISBN 13 : 9780316133142
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (331 download)
Download or read book Casselmania written by Bill Casselman and published by Boston ; Toronto : Little, Brown Canada. This book was released on 1996 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Words & phrases used by Canadians
Author : David LaChapelle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (111 download)
Download or read book Canadian Slang Sayings and Meanings written by David LaChapelle and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-18 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Canadian Slang Sayings and Meanings: Eh! there are over 1400 phrases with a number system for easy referencing. The meanings are described in a simple, clear and profound way. If you are learning Canadian English or visiting this book is a must read. You will want to have this book in your possession to understand what Canadians are speaking about and their culture. Eh!
Author : Wayne Magnuson
Publisher : Calgary : Prairie House Books
ISBN 13 : 9781895012002
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Canadian English Idioms written by Wayne Magnuson and published by Calgary : Prairie House Books. This book was released on 1989 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edrick Thay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781926677118
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (771 download)
Download or read book Weird Canadian Words written by Edrick Thay and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anorak, butter tart, ballicatter, kayak, stubby, toonie--these are familiar Canadian words. But where did they come from? What quirks of language and fate have made them truly Canadian? Even though we speak the same language as the Yanks and the Brits, Canadians have a unique dialect that is recognized around the world, and each province has its own eccentricities. Edrick Thay presents well-known and obscure Canadianisms in this often-humorous glossary of words from across the country: ? all-Canadian words--Canuck, hockey, loonie, Medicare, tuque and the ubiquitous eh ? Qu?b?cois words--tourti?re, cretons, shivaree and Bombardier ? words from Ontario--BeaverTails, reeve, Wonderbra and zipper ? West Coast terms--potlatch, hooch, Nanaimo bar and skookum ? words of the sea-faring Atlantic provinces--screech, ballicatter, slob ice and blue nose ? aboriginal words--skookum, potlatch, chinook and high muckamuck ? western Canadianisms--canola, Bloody Caesar, bunnyhug, M?tis and stubble jumper ? and words of the North--inuksuk, Klondike, mukluk, pingo and toboggan.
Author : Robert M. Hamilton
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1074 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Dictionary of Canadian Quotations and Phrases written by Robert M. Hamilton and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 1979 with total page 1074 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Katherine Barber
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195429848
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)
Download or read book Only in Canada You Say written by Katherine Barber and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ask any Canadian about a distinctly Canadian form of English, and most will offer an enthusiastic Bob-and-Doug-McKenzie 'eh' in response. A passionate few might also bring up the colour vs. color debate or our pronunciations of 'out' and 'about'. And some may point to the ubiquitous Canadiantoque as evidence of a language that is all our own. If this is your idea of Canadian English, then it might surprise you that Katherine Barber, Editor-in-Chief of the best-selling Canadian Oxford Dictionary and author of the best-selling Six Words You Never Knew Had Something to Do With Pigs, haswritten a new book filled with nothing but made-in-Canada vocabulary. Only in Canada You Say highlights more than 1,200 words and phrases that are unique to our neck of the woods. Did you know, for example, that every time you ask for Gravol at the drug store, you're using a word that is unknownanywhere else? That those tasty butter tarts your mother used to make don't exist beyond our borders? Or that there are three distinctly Canadian sex words? And jokes about living in the Great White North aside, it is still pretty interesting to discover that there are 17 Canadian words for ice!Organized thematically, Only in Canada You Say covers Canadian English from coast to coast to coast, with sections dedicated to the things we love to do, where we live, how we get around, and what we wear. The entertaining and informative introductions to each section provide a fresh, ofteneye-opening, perspective on the reality of Canadian English from Canada's own 'Word Lady', Katherine Barber. Only in Canada You Say maybe 'eh' is just the beginning of this story!
Author : Jonathon Green
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780304366361
Total Pages : 1600 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (663 download)
Download or read book Cassell's Dictionary of Slang written by Jonathon Green and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 1600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its unparalleled coverage of English slang of all types (from 18th-century cant to contemporary gay slang), and its uncluttered editorial apparatus, Cassell's Dictionary of Slang was warmly received when its first edition appeared in 1998. 'Brilliant.' said Mark Lawson on BBC2's The Late Review; 'This is a terrific piece of work - learned, entertaining, funny, stimulating' said Jonathan Meades in The Evening Standard.But now the world's best single-volume dictionary of English slang is about to get even better. Jonathon Green has spent the last seven years on a vast project: to research in depth the English slang vocabulary and to hunt down and record written instances of the use of as many slang words as possible. This has entailed trawling through more than 4000 books - plus song lyrics, TV and movie scripts, and many newspapers and magazines - for relevant material. The research has thrown up some fascinating results
Author : Mark M. Orkin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317436334
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Speaking Canadian English written by Mark M. Orkin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do English-speaking Canadians sound like and why? Can you tell the difference between a Canadian and an American? A Canadian and an Englishman? If so, how? Linguistically speaking is Canada a colony of Britain or a satellite of the United States? Is there a Canadian language? Speaking Canadian English, first published in 1971, in a non-technical way, describes English as it is spoken in Canada – its vocabulary, pronunciation, syntax, grammar, spelling, slang. This title comments on the history of Canadian English – how it came to sound the way it does – and attempts to predict what will happen to it in the future. This book will be of interest to students of linguistics.
Author : John Camden Hotten
Publisher : London : Chatto and Windus
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical, and Anecdotal written by John Camden Hotten and published by London : Chatto and Windus. This book was released on 1874 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Geordie Telfer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781894864855
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (648 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of Canadianisms written by Geordie Telfer and published by . This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than one long joke about "Oot and aboot," this book details how those in Canada speak more than just English or French. We have a vocabulary--and a number of dialects--all our own. So, sit on the chesterfield with a box of timbits and read this tongue-in-cheek take on Canada's unofficial language.
Author : W.J. Kirwin
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442690658
Total Pages : 858 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of Newfoundland English written by W.J. Kirwin and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1990-11-01 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dictionary of Newfoundland English, first published in 1982 to regional, national, and international acclaim, is a historical dictionary that gives the pronunciations and definitions for words that the editors have called "Newfoundland English." The varieties of English spoken in Newfoundland date back four centuries, mainly to the early seventeenth-century migratory English fishermen of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, and Somerset, and to the seventeenth- to the nineteenth-century immigrants chiefly from southeastern Ireland. Culled from a vast reading of books, newspapers, and magazines, this book is the most sustained reading ever undertaken of the written words of this province. The dictionary gives not only the meaning of words, but also presents each word with its variant spellings. Moreover, each definition is succeeded by an all-important quotation of usage which illustrates the typical context in which word is used. This well-researched, impressive work of scholarship illustrates how words and phrases have evolved and are used in everyday speech and writing in a specific geographical area. The Dictionary of Newfoundland English is one of the most important, comprehensive, and thorough works dealing with Newfoundland. Its publication, a great addition to Newfoundlandia, Canadiana, and lexicography, provides more than a regional lexicon. In fact, this entertaining and delightful book presents a panoramic view of the social, cultural, and natural history, as well as the geography and economics, of the quintessential lifestyle of one of Canada's oldest European-settled areas. This second edition contains a supplement offering approximately 1500 new or expanded entries, an increase of more than 30 per cent over the first edition. Besides new words, the supplement includes modified and additional senses of old words and fresh derivations and usages.
Author : Charles Boberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113949144X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book The English Language in Canada written by Charles Boberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English Language in Canada examines the current status, history and principal features of Canadian English, focusing on the 'standard' variety heard across the country today. The discussion of the status of Canadian English considers the number and distribution of its speakers, its relation to French and other Canadian languages and to American English, its status as the expressive medium of English Canadian culture and its treatment in previous research. The review of its history concentrates on the historical roots and patterns of English-speaking settlement that established Canadian English and influenced its character in each region of Canada. The analysis of its principal features compares the vocabulary, pronunciation and grammar of Canadian English to standard British and American English. Subsequent chapters examine variation and change in the vocabulary and pronunciation of Canadian English, while a final chapter briefly considers the future of Canadian English.
Author : Margery Fee
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195445930
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (459 download)
Download or read book Guide to Canadian English Usage written by Margery Fee and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complexities of the English language can be daunting for even the most fluent speakers, and for Canadians this is doubly so with the mixture of British and American traditions. Almost anyone engaged in formal writing will sometimes need to consult a usage guide for advice, but Canadians have always been forced to choose between a British or an American source. With the Guide to Canadian English Usage, writers will have an authoritative reference based on Canadian sources that provides pithy direction on numerous details of the language. From the indefinite article to zoology, alphabetically arranged entries clarify issues of word choice, punctuation, spelling, and abbreviation. Throughout it offers guidance on Canadianisms, confusibles, difficult expressions, First Nation names, foreign phrases, grammar, inclusive language, punctuation, spelling, and troublesome pronunciations. Each entry explains the problem at hand, outlines a range of prescriptions, and then either recommends a particular usage or reviews the alternatives from which the now-informed reader can choose. All entries feature a wide range of fascinating quotations from Canadian sources. Newly reissued in an attractive hardcover edition, the Guide to Canadian English Usage is the essential reference for any writer, editor, or speaker of English in Canada.
