A Concise Dictionary of Canadianisms
Author : Lexicographical Centre for Canadian English
Publisher :
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 38,60 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Canadianisms
ISBN :
Dictionary of Americanisms, Briticisms, Canadianisms and Australianisms
Author : V.S. Matyushenkov
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 36,28 MB
Release : 2010-01-30
Category : Reference
ISBN : 145003246X
Book Description
The Dictionary Of Americanisms, Canadianisms, Briticisms and Australianisms is a complete, modern, and comprehensive dictionary featuring a large word list of more than 20000 entries. The purpose of this book is to provide a generous sampling of words and expressions of the various spheres of life in the USA, Great Britain, Australia and Canada during the last centuries. The dictionary also features a collection of slang and colloquial expressions in these four countries in the twentieth century. It has a clear, easy-to-use format and is ideal for students, schools, libraries, tourists and anyone who is interested in varieties of English spoken in major English-speaking countries.
Dictionary of Canadianisms
Author : Geordie Telfer
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,32 MB
Release : 2010-03
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781894864855
Book Description
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.
Canadian Oxford Dictionary of Current English
Author : Katherine Barber
Publisher : Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,26 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780195422832
Book Description
Based on the critically acclaimed best-selling Canadian Oxford Dictionary, the Canadian Oxford Dictionary of Current English offers a reliable description of Canadian spelling, pronunciation and meaning in a handy, mass-market format. With 125,000 words, phrases and definitions, it features over 900 uniquely Canadian words and senses. Definitions are presented so that the meaning most familiar to Canadians appears first. Each of these entries is exceptionally reliable, the result of thorough research into the language and Oxford's unparalleled language resources. Throughout, it offers authoritative guidance on Canadian spelling, and pronunciations are given for difficult words using an easy sound-it-out system (ie for QWERTY Say KWUR tee). Designed to fulfill users' everyday reference needs, the Canadian Oxford Dictionary of Current English offers Canadians the core vocabulary for everyday use.
Creating Canadian English
Author : Stefan Dollinger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 42,51 MB
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1108497713
Book Description
Traces the making of Canadian English, both as concept and global variety, throughout the twentieth century to the present.
Canadian Reference Sources
Author : Mary E. Bond
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 1102 pages
File Size : 18,18 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780774805650
Book Description
In parallel columns of French and English, lists over 4,000 reference works and books on history and the humanities, breaking down the large divisions by subject, genre, type of document, and province or territory. Includes titles of national, provincial, territorial, or regional interest in every subject area when available. The entries describe the core focus of the book, its range of interest, scholarly paraphernalia, and any editions in the other Canadian language. The humanities headings are arts, language and linguistics, literature, performing arts, philosophy, and religion. Indexed by name, title, and French and English subject. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
English: One Language, Different Cultures
Author : Eddie Ronowicz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 26,60 MB
Release : 2007-06-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1441164642
Book Description
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.
A Reference Guide for English Studies
Author : Michael J. Marcuse
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 2816 pages
File Size : 10,46 MB
Release : 2023-11-10
Category :
ISBN : 0520321871
Book Description
The Canadian Dictionary of ASL
Author : Carole Sue Bailey
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 942 pages
File Size : 14,15 MB
Release : 2002-06-27
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780888643001
Book Description
Separate sections are included on: fingerspelling, ASL handshapes, numbers, pronouns, time concepts, and geographic place names."--BOOK JACKET.
Puckstruck
Author : Stephen Smith
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 41,38 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1771640480
Book Description
Like many a Canadian kid, Stephen Smith was up on skates first thing as a boy, out in the weather chasing a puck and the promise of an NHL career. Back indoors after that didn't quite work out, he turned to the bookshelf. That's where, without entirely meaning to, he ended up reading all the hockey books. There was Crunch and Boom Boom, Slashing! and High Stick; there was Max Bentley: Hockey's Dipsy-Doodle Dandy, Blue Line Murder, and Nagano, a Czech hockey opera. There was Blood on the Ice, Cracked Ice, Fire On Ice, Power On Ice, Cowboy On Ice, and Steel On Ice. In Puckstruck, Smith chronicles his wide-eyed and sometimes wincing wander through hockey's literature, language, and culture, weighing its excitement and unbridled joy against its costs and vexing brutality. In exploring his own lifelong love of the game, hoping to surprise some sense out of it, he sifts hockey's narratives in search of hockey's heart, what it means and why it should distress us even as we celebrate its glories. On a journey to discover what the game might have to say about who we are as Canadians, he seeks to answer some of its essential riddles.
