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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 : 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 : 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 : Little, Brown (Canada)
ISBN 13 : 9781552780367
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Canadian Garden Words : the Origin of Flower, Tree and Plant Names ... written by Bill Casselman and published by Little, Brown (Canada). This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The origin of flower, tree, and plant names, both wild and domestic, entertainingly derived from their sources in the ancient tongues together with fancy botanical names and why you shall never again be afraid to use them!
Author : Bill Casselman
Publisher : McArthur
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book What's in a Canadian Name? written by Bill Casselman and published by McArthur. This book was released on 2000 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Someone said recently that the only true Canadian last names are thoser of our aboriginal peoples. Certainly Inuit, Cree and Ojibwa names were the first hear across that land that would become Canada. (Consider pop singer Shania Twain, who aboriginal name is Ojibwa for "on my way"). But surnames from all over the earth are Canadian too, brought here by immigrants speaking French, English, German, Italian, Gaelic, Ukranian, Chinese, Russian, Spanish, Japanese and so on.In WHAT'S IN A CANADIAN NAME? you'll learn startling stories behind famous (and not so famous) Canadian names. Perhaps more importantly, Bill Casselman here gives you a bright and amusing introduction to how last names operate in many languages all over the world. For any reader interested in genealogy and surnames, this is a perfect introduction.
Author : Bill Casselman
Publisher : McArthur & Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Canadian Food Words written by Bill Casselman and published by McArthur & Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canada's bestselling word wizard is back, with a gustatory gallivant across Canada! Learn about and enjoy some of the food words Canadians use and have used - many of these words as tangy and succulent as the foods they name. Casselman sets the gastric juices flowing and helps us savour the etymological flavour of our hearty Canadian fare as well.The gastromonic grand tour begins in Newfoundland aftera Jigg's dinner with scrunchins, washed down with a stain o' rum, and then we light out for the West Coast to lap up a foaming bowl of soapahollie ice cream. Along the way there are stops and mug-ups for Maritime fungy and bangbelly, bakeapple jam and blueberry grunt, fricko on PEI, rappie pie in New Brunswick, drepsley soup in Southern Ontario, bannock in Manitoba, Saskatoonberry turnovers along the Qu-Appelle River, backed wind pills in Alberta, and moose-muffle soup in Tuktoyaktuk.Foodies and word buffs alike will enjoy this book, written as it is in true Casselman form - scholarly, entertaining and often hilarious.
Author : Bill Casselman
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1490784934
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Word Stash written by Bill Casselman and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-13 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samples of the gems which glitter and await the reader inside Bill Casselmans Word Stash: Ever helpful, I offer readers handy tips not just about words but about living. In a chapter on avoiding tired weather words, I write Likewise disdained in weather response is understatement. When a small child is blown away down the block towards an operating hay-baling machine, dont say, Looks like the breeze has freshened. On the contrary, scream and run madly to retrieve the aerial infant. But, during weather commentaries, overstatement may also be scorned. At the onset of a thunder-clap which sends a pet dachshund under grandmothers shawl, do not leap on the barbeque canopy and shout, Action stations! What was my aim in writing this collection of short essays about language? In each chapter I tried to select one word not merely rare, but a choice vocable that is in fact le mot recherch, a term uncommon to the point of pretentiousness. Email response reveals that readers of my work want to expand their vocabularies. So why else am I here, if not to foist upon innocent readers the most obscure word-mosses scraped from oblivions grotto? With that modest caution then, I invite readers to press onward, toward the broad, sunlit uplands of enlightenment, where new words dwell.
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 : Stefan Dollinger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108497713
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Creating Canadian English written by Stefan Dollinger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the making of Canadian English, both as concept and global variety, throughout the twentieth century to the present.
Author : Mark Kearney
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 9780888822130
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (221 download)
Download or read book The Great Canadian Book of Lists written by Mark Kearney and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1999-09 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles a century of achievements, trends, important and influential people, and events that have shaped this country.
Author : Bill Casselman
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1490772146
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (97 download)
Download or read book At the Wording Desk written by Bill Casselman and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-30 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How, why, and whence does a word gain advent into the English vocabulary? That question has hundreds of thousands of vivid, sometimes funny answers. In At the Wording Desk, author Bill Casselman, one of Canada's leading etymologists, shares a collection of some of the more colorful and interesting word origins. With a dose of lively humor, he offers an explanation of a plethora of words and gives the historical Latin and Greek roots and their meaning as spoken and written throughout history. In At the Wording Desk, he: explains that the word "travel" comes from trepalium, a Roman torture device; examines the origin of English words which end in the pejorative suffix -ard such as coward, dullard, lubbard, and sluggard; discuss how canopy first meant mosquito net; defines the meaning of wind-rose, advection, and a host of other interesting words; and tells why carpe diem does not mean "seize the day." From thaumaturgy to clavis, xanthopterin, and more, Casselman offers an extensive look at the history of a variety of rare words.
Author : Eddie Ronowicz
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826481752
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)
Download or read book English: One Language, Different Cultures written by Eddie Ronowicz and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2007-08-28 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gives an introduction to culturally determined aspects of communicating in British, Australian, Canadian, New Zealand and American societies. This book focuses on effective communication with members of these societies, especially on correcting false stereotypes which may cause misunderstandings.
Author : Stefan Dollinger
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027231087
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book New-dialect Formation in Canada written by Stefan Dollinger and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book details the development of eleven modal auxiliaries in late 18th- and 19th-century Canadian English in a framework of new-dialect formation. The study assesses features of the modal auxiliaries, tracing influences to British and American input varieties, parallel developments, or Canadian innovations. The findings are based on the "Corpus of Early Ontario English," "pre-Confederation Section, "the first electronic corpus of early Canadian English. The data, which are drawn from newspapers, diaries and letters, include original transcriptions from manuscript sources and texts from semi-literate writers. While the overall results are generally coherent with new-dialect formation theory, the Ontarian context suggests a number of adaptations to the current model. In addition to its general Late Modern English focus, "New-Dialect Formation in Canada" traces changes in epistemic modal functions up to the present day, offering answers to the loss of root uses in the central modals. By comparing Canadian with British and American data, important theoretical insights on the origins of the variety are gained. The study offers a sociohistorical perspective on a still understudied variety of North American English by combining language-internal features with settlement history in this first monograph-length, diachronic treatment of Canadian English in real time.
Author : Eddie Ronowicz
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826470799
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (77 download)
Download or read book English written by Eddie Ronowicz and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-02-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to culturally determined aspects of communicating in British, Australian, Canadian, New Zealand and American societies, especially those that may influence effective communication with members of these societies or be the source of false perceptions/stereotypes of their behaviour.
Author : Bill Casselman
Publisher : McArthur Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781552784938
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)
Download or read book As the Canoe Tips written by Bill Casselman and published by McArthur Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bill Casselman, Canada's best and funniest word man, returns with his own comedy. Here's Bill with his own comedy. Here's Bill with standup that's sit-down, because he sat to type these zany titles that tell the silly tale: "Flying to the Smeeb Harvest: A Travel Piece," "The Pedantry Shelf or Who Let the Lesser Omentum Out of Its Cage?"Blurbs galore adorn the back cover of books. The ones that Bill Casselman likes best speak from the heart. Artist Elizabeth Creith of Thessalon, Ontario, wrote, "Bill, I found myself standing in a bookstore aisle with tears of laughter running down my face." TV hostess with the mostest Vicki Gabereau pronounced the shortest blurb ever, "Casselman, are you funny!"Ever left our the p in ptarmigan? You were right! Among his own original discoveries and derivations in a lively section called "Words in My Life," Bill ferrets out an early mistake that plopped a spurious p on the front of our Canadian bird name. Here too Bill buckles your ribs with "The Canadian Word I Most Hate" balanced by a hilarious report on the biggest, best laugh of my life."As Bill himself writes, "You'll meet characters out on a day pass from my subconscious, released for silly behaviour and on their own lack of cognizance."Here's Bill himself let loose to make you laugh, fulfilling one of his life ambitions. "Shucks, dudes and dudettes, all I want to give you is the clown's rule of conduct: a little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants."
