Author: Katherine Barber
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195429848
Category : Anglais (Langue)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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!
Only in Canada You Say
Author: Katherine Barber
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195429848
Category : Anglais (Langue)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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!
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195429848
Category : Anglais (Langue)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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!
Journals of the House of Commons of the Dominion of Canada
Author: Canada. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher:
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 650
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 650
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The Illustrated American
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 954
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 954
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Journals
Author: Canada. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 720
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 720
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Publication Fund Series
Author: New-York Historical Society
Publisher:
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Category : Local history
Languages : en
Pages : 518
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Category : Local history
Languages : en
Pages : 518
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Farmer's Advocate and Home Journal
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 980
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 980
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Canadian Engineer
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 970
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 970
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Hearings Before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, on the Proposed Revenue Act of 1918
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means
Publisher:
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Category : Postal service
Languages : en
Pages : 1316
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Category : Postal service
Languages : en
Pages : 1316
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Official Reports of the Debates of the House of Commons of the Dominion of Canada
Author: Canada. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher:
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1190
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Publisher:
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1190
Book Description
Toward A North American Community?
Author: Donald Barry
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000009653
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is a milestone in the affairs of the continent and in international trade. The first formal arrangement of any kind between Canada, the United States, and Mexico, it is also the first trade pact including countries of such disproportionate power and levels of development. For Canada and Mexico the agr
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000009653
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is a milestone in the affairs of the continent and in international trade. The first formal arrangement of any kind between Canada, the United States, and Mexico, it is also the first trade pact including countries of such disproportionate power and levels of development. For Canada and Mexico the agr