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Author | : Katherine Barber |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Anglais (Langue) |
ISBN | : 9780195429848 |
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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!
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Author | : Mavis Gallant |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2003-11-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781590170601 |
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Mavis Gallant is the modern master of what Henry James called the international story, the fine-grained evocation of the quandaries of people who must make their way in the world without any place to call their own. The irreducible complexity of the very idea of home is especially at issue in the stories Gallant has written about Montreal, where she was born, although she has lived in Paris for more than half a century. Varieties of Exile, Russell Banks's extensive new selection from Gallant's work, demonstrates anew the remarkable reach of this writer's singular art. Among its contents are three previously uncollected stories, as well as the celebrated semi-autobiographical sequence about Linnet Muir—stories that are wise, funny, and full of insight into the perils and promise of growing up and breaking loose.
Author | : Canada. Parliament. House of Commons |
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Total Pages | : 650 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : Canada |
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Author | : Great Britain. Colonial Office. Committee on Agricultural Settlements in British Colonies |
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Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 1906 |
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Total Pages | : 980 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
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Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means |
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Release | : 1918 |
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Release | : 1911 |
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