A DICTIONARY OF CANADIANISMS ON HISTORICAL PRINCIPLES Produced By the Lexicographical Centre for Canadian English, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Edité par W.J. Gage Limited, Toronto, 1967

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(CAD) Presumed 1st edition. No markings, Fine in Near Fine clear acetate dust jacket with a 1/2" tear to edge near the spine head in Good only slipcase with edges rubbed. Red cloth, xxiv, 927pp, [8] blank pages for Reader's Notes. Small line drawings. "That part of Canadian English which is neiher British nor American is best illustrated by the vocabulary, for there are hundreds of words which are native to Canada or which have meanings peculiar to Canada". Pink tea: a social gathering attended chiefly by women. Mudpup: a young Englishman sent out to Western Canada to learn farming. Mukluk: a warm knee-high boot worn by the Inuit and Aboriginals of the Northest Territries and the Yukon. Muskeg: an organic bog which is brown or black mixture of water and living and dead vegetation often covered with sphagnum or other mosses and often of considerable depth. Stook: a structure of grain sheaves, sometimes set up end to end in five or six pairs, (a long stook) sometimes in a circle (a round stook). (4.2 JM HQ 103/5 Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".…

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Titre
A DICTIONARY OF CANADIANISMS ON HISTORICAL PRINCIPLES Produced By the Lexicographical Centre for Canadian English, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Auteur
Avis, Walter S. Editor in Chief; Crate, Charles; Drysdale, Patrick; Leechman, Douglas; Scargill, Matthew H.; Lovell, Charles J.
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W.J. Gage Limited, Toronto
Année de publication
1967
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Illustrateur
Galt, Jean; Guest, Mary
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1st.
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