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Dictionary of Newfoundland English

Author : W.J. Kirwin
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442690658
Total Pages : 858 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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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.

The Flanker Dictionary of Newfoundland English

Author : Garry Cranford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781771176545
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (765 download)

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Download or read book The Flanker Dictionary of Newfoundland English written by Garry Cranford and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of historical words and definitions that can be grouped into its own unique class as Newfounland English. These words and meanings survive from early settlers from Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, and Somerset, and latter immigrants from southern Ireland.

Merrybegot

Author : Mary Dalton
Publisher : Vehicule Press
ISBN 13 : 9781550651799
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book Merrybegot written by Mary Dalton and published by Vehicule Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Call them prayers or curses. Fictions or true stories. Mary Dalton's new poems are voices caught in print, fashioned from the vigorous idioms and cadences of Newfoundland speech. Readers will, likely for the first time, encounter words like "conkerbells", "drite", "mollyfoostering", "mawmouth" and "elt"--potent words rich with the music of their centuries-old origins. The Atlantic landscape, its water and weather, is made to play a memorable role in these poems, reflecting the often anarchic vitality of a complex, sea-dependent people. But the true marvel of Merrybegot, Dalton's third book, is the linguistic energy, the "salt accent," of its various speakers. The title, Merrybegot (a child born outside marriage), aptly suggests this poetry's extraordinary originality. Here is a language, and a community, rendered in all its exuberant and irreverent life.

A History of Newfoundland from the English, Colonial, and Foreign Records

Author : Daniel Woodley Prowse
Publisher : Belleville, Ont., Mika Studio
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 852 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Newfoundland from the English, Colonial, and Foreign Records written by Daniel Woodley Prowse and published by Belleville, Ont., Mika Studio. This book was released on 1895 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland

Author : E. R. Seary
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773517820
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (178 download)

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Book Synopsis Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland by : E. R. Seary

Download or read book Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland written by E. R. Seary and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1998 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the origins of nearly 3,000 surnames found on the eastern Canadian island, along with sometimes extensive information on etymology, genealogy, and Newfoundland history. Introduces the alphabetical catalogue with a survey of the history and linguistic origins, which include English, Welsh, Irish, Scottish, French, Syrian, Lebanese, and Micmac. Appends lists of names by frequency and frequency by origin, and surnames recorded before 1700. First published in 1977, reprinted four times, and here revised with additions and corrections and reset in a more convenient format. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Death On The Ice

Author : Cassie Brown
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
ISBN 13 : 0385673825
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (856 download)

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Download or read book Death On The Ice written by Cassie Brown and published by Doubleday Canada. This book was released on 2010-07-23 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each year, for generations, poor, ill-clad Newfoundland fisherman sailed out 'to the ice' to hunt seals in the hope of a few penniew in wages from the prosperous merchants of St. John's. The year 1914 witnessed the worst in the long line of tragedies that were part of their harsh way of life. For two long, freezing days and nights a party of seal hunters--one hundred thirty-two men--were left stranded on an icefield floating in the North Atlantic in winter. They were thinly dressed, with almost no food, and with no hope of shelter on the ice against the snow or the constant, bitter winds. To survive they had to keep moving, always moving. Those who lay down to rest died. Heroes emerged--one man froze his lips badly, biting off the icicles that were blinding his comrades. Other men froze in their tracks, or went mad with pain and walked off the edge of the icefield. All the while, ships steamed about nearby, unnoticing. And by the time help arrived, two thirds of the men were dead. This is an incredible story of bungling and greed, of suffering and heroism. The disaster is carefully traced, step by step. With the aid of compelling, contemporary photographs the book paints an unforgettable portrait of the bloody trade of seal hunting among the icefields when ships--and men--were expendable.

Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780920508138
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Bibliography of Canadian Folklore in English

Author : Edith Fowke
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487597177
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Book Synopsis A Bibliography of Canadian Folklore in English by : Edith Fowke

Download or read book A Bibliography of Canadian Folklore in English written by Edith Fowke and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1982-12-15 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the only comprehensive bibliography of Canadian folklore in English. The 3877 different items are arranged by genres: folktales; folk music and dance; folk speech and naming; superstitions, popular beliefs, folk medicine, and the supernatural; folk life and customs; folk art and material culture; and within genres by ethnic groups: Anglophone and Celtic, Francophone, Indian and Inuit, and other cultural groups. The items include reference books, periodicals, articles, records, films, biographies of scholars and informants, and graduate theses. Each items is annotated through a coding that indicates whether it is academic or popular, its importance to the scholar, and whether it is suitable for young people. The introduction includes a brief survey of Canadian folklore studies, putting this work into academic and social perspective. The book covers all the important items and most minor items dealing with Canadian folklore published in English up to the end of 1979. It is concerned with legitimate Canadian folklore – whether transplanted from other countries and preserved here, or created here to reflect the culture of this country. It distinguishes between authentic folklore presented as collected and popular treatments in which the material has been rewritten by the authors. Intended primarily for scholars of folklore, international as well as Canadian, the book will also be of use to scholars in anthropology, cultural geography, oral history, and other branches of Canadian culture studies, as well as to librarians, teachers, and the general public.

Creating This Place

Author : Linda Cullum
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773590358
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Creating This Place written by Linda Cullum and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twentieth century witnessed both the formation of Newfoundland as a self-conscious national entity and the construction of distinct and self-aware middle and upper classes in its capital city. This interdisciplinary collection examines the key roles played by women in the creation of this state and society, and the essential influence that gender, ethnicity, and religion played in class relations. Shifting class relations were formed in the salient political events of the first half of the twentieth century in Newfoundland: the First World War, the suffrage movement, the Great Depression, the Second World War, and finally Newfoundland's contested entry into the Canadian Confederation. Creating This Place shows how upper-, middle-, and working-class worlds were established in the everyday work of women, as well as the ways in which the complex social boundaries of the period were constructed. Individual chapters explore issues such as women's work in religious and voluntary institutions, their struggle for voice, suffrage, and political change, work of domestic servants, and the construction of "proper" women and mothers through denominational education. Creating This Place adopts an innovative perspective on Newfoundland and Labrador that focuses on the often overlooked lives of urban women. Contributors include Sonja Boon (Memorial University), Linda Cullum (Memorial University), Margot Duley (University of Illinois at Springfield), Vicki Hallett (Memorial University), Jonathan Luedee (doctoral candidate, University of British Columbia), Bonnie Morgan (doctoral candidate, University of New Brunswick), Marilyn Porter (emerita, Memorial University), Karen Stanbridge (Memorial University), Helen Woodrow (Educational Planning and Design Associates and Harrish Press Publications).

Ethnocentrism and the English Dictionary

Author : Phil Benson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134599595
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Ethnocentrism and the English Dictionary written by Phil Benson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-08 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique work challenges the assumption that dictionaries act as objective records of our language, and instead argues that the English dictionary is a fundamentally ethnocentric work. Using theoretical, historical and empirical analyses, Phil Benson shows how English dictionaries have filtered knowledge through predominantly Anglo-American perspectives. The book includes a major case study of the most recent edition of the Oxford English Dictionary and its treatment of China.

Dictionary of the Language of the Micmac Indians, who Reside in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Cape Breton, and Newfoundland

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Author : Silas Tertius Rand
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of the Language of the Micmac Indians, who Reside in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Cape Breton, and Newfoundland written by Silas Tertius Rand and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dictionary of Cape Breton English

Author : William J. Davey
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442615990
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of Cape Breton English written by William J. Davey and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first regional dictionary devoted to the island s linguistic and cultural history, the Dictionary of Cape Breton English is a fascinating record of the island s rich vocabulary. "

Canadian Literary Landmarks

Author : John Robert Colombo
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459717988
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book Canadian Literary Landmarks written by John Robert Colombo and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a list of three dozen of the top literary locales in the country. The selection of sites is necessarily subjective, yet it attempts to represent geographical, historical, social, and cultural concerns as well as strictly literary interests. Had this list been prepared by the editors of Michelin Guide, they would have added asterisks or stars to the entries: * Interesting. ** Worth a detour. *** Worth a journey. It is the opinion of the author of Canadian Literary Landmarks that all thirty-six sites are "Worth a journey." It is recognized that the average person is unlikely to visit No. 1, not to mention No. 36, but as these sites happen to be the first and last entries in the book, they mark a convenient and symbolic beginning and ending. (No. 1 being L’Anse aux Meadows, Epaves Bay, Nfld. and No. 36 being the North Pole, NWT).

The Handbook of Dialectology

Author : Charles Boberg
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118827597
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (188 download)

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Download or read book The Handbook of Dialectology written by Charles Boberg and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Dialectology provides an authoritative, up-to-date and unusually broad account of the study of dialect, in one volume. Each chapter reviews essential research, and offers a critical discussion of the past, present and future development of the area. The volume is based on state-of-the-art research in dialectology around the world, providing the most current work available with an unusually broad scope of topics Provides a practical guide to the many methodological and statistical issues surrounding the collection and analysis of dialect data Offers summaries of dialect variation in the world's most widely spoken and commonly studied languages, including several non-European languages that have traditionally received less attention in general discussions of dialectology Reviews the intellectual development of the field, including its main theoretical schools of thought and research traditions, both academic and applied The editors are well known and highly respected, with a deep knowledge of this vast field of inquiry

Proceedings of the Royal Society of Canada

Author : Royal Society of Canada
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the Royal Society of Canada written by Royal Society of Canada and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

New Voyages to North-America

Author : baron de Lahontan
Publisher : Chicago : A.C. McClurg
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Voyages to North-America written by baron de Lahontan and published by Chicago : A.C. McClurg. This book was released on 1905 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Folktales of Newfoundland Pbdirect

Author : J.D.A. Widdowson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317551486
Total Pages : 878 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Folktales of Newfoundland Pbdirect written by J.D.A. Widdowson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-20 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of Newfoundland folk narratives, first published in 1996, grew out of extensive fieldwork in folk culture in the province. The intention was to collect as broad a spectrum of traditional material as possible, and Folktales of Newfoundland is notable not only for the number and quality of its narratives, but also for the format in which they are presented. A special transcription system conveys to the reader the accents and rhythms of each performance, and the endnote to each tale features an analysis of the narrator’s language. In addition, Newfoundland has preserved many aspects of English and Irish folk tradition, some of which are no longer active in the countries of their origin. Working from the premise that traditions virtually unknown in England might still survive in active form in Newfoundland, the researchers set out to discover if this was in fact the case.