South Shore Phrase Book
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South Shore Phrase Book
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Author : Lewis Poteet
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2004-02
South Shore Phrase Book written by Lewis Poteet and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-02 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Collected from the talk of the people who live along Nova Scotia's South Shore, from Halifax to Yarmouth on the Atlantic shore, this book is a lively guide to the unusual way they speak. It is both very old, including words and phrases spoken but not written down since before Chaucer, and in a lively way, new and elaborate, like the original, complete version of "happy as a clam." It provides a guide to the life and character of these resilient fisher and farm folk. The work is illustrated with old photographs from the region, and it includes scholarly appendices on "Elizabethan English on Nova Scotia's South Shore" and "Rough Measure in Maritime Dialect Research," the latter written with Jacqueline Baum. The language will bring back vivid memories to those who have visited this scenic Maritime place and attract those who have not, to do so. As the record of a limited speech community, it may help students of English as a Second Language. It has been used by novelists, playwrights, and poets (including Robert MacNeil of the MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour, Canada's prolific dramatist Paul LeDoux, and George Elliott Clarke, a much-honored black Canadian poet), to give authentic flavor to their works. It will bring joy and insight to all who love language.
The Second South Shore Phrase Book
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Author : Lewis J. Poteet
language : en
Publisher: Hantsport, N.S. : Lancelot Press
Release Date : 1985
The Second South Shore Phrase Book written by Lewis J. Poteet and has been published by Hantsport, N.S. : Lancelot Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Canadianisms categories.
The Maritimes
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Author : George Peabody
language : en
Publisher: James Lorimer & Company
Release Date : 1987-01-01
The Maritimes written by George Peabody and has been published by James Lorimer & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-01-01 with History categories.
The Maritimes: Tradition, Challenge & Change is a high school textbook used to teach students about the social conditions of the Maritimes. Every major aspect of the region is included--its natural resources and economy, its changing social and political life, and its unique cultural expressions. Often these come alive through the expreiences of the diverse array of Maritimers from all walks of life and from all parts of the region that appear in these pages. The Maritimes: Tradition, Challenge & Change is a unique picture of a region with a strong sense of tradition, facing many challenges, and undergoing change in every area of life.
The New Partridge Dictionary Of Slang And Unconventional English
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Author : Tom Dalzell
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-06-26
The New Partridge Dictionary Of Slang And Unconventional English written by Tom Dalzell and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-26 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Booklist Top of the List Reference Source The heir and successor to Eric Partridge's brilliant magnum opus, The Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, this two-volume New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is the definitive record of post WWII slang. Containing over 60,000 entries, this new edition of the authoritative work on slang details the slang and unconventional English of the English-speaking world since 1945, and through the first decade of the new millennium, with the same thorough, intense, and lively scholarship that characterized Partridge's own work. Unique, exciting and, at times, hilariously shocking, key features include: unprecedented coverage of World English, with equal prominence given to American and British English slang, and entries included from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, South Africa, Ireland, and the Caribbean emphasis on post-World War II slang and unconventional English published sources given for each entry, often including an early or significant example of the term’s use in print. hundreds of thousands of citations from popular literature, newspapers, magazines, movies, and songs illustrating usage of the headwords dating information for each headword in the tradition of Partridge, commentary on the term’s origins and meaning New to this edition: A new preface noting slang trends of the last five years Over 1,000 new entries from the US, UK and Australia New terms from the language of social networking Many entries now revised to include new dating, new citations from written sources and new glosses The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is a spectacular resource infused with humour and learning – it’s rude, it’s delightful, and it’s a prize for anyone with a love of language.
Dictionary Of Prince Edward Island English
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Author : Terry Kenneth Pratt
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 1996-01-01
Dictionary Of Prince Edward Island English written by Terry Kenneth Pratt and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-01-01 with Reference categories.
Strupac, fornenst, trappy, scriss, kippy, snool, flying axehandles, from across - these and hundreds of other fascinating and colourful words and phrases give the English language as it has been spoken in Canada's smallest province a flavour all its own. With the Dictionary of Prince Edward Island English, T.K. Pratt makes a major scholarly contribution to the growing list of regional dictionaries that enable us to discover the rich heritage of the language as spoken throughout North America; at the same time it offers a splendid general introduction to the historical and sociological life of the island. There are approximately 1000 entries of non-standard or dialect words, past and present. The notes deal with usage, pronunciation, alternate forms and spellings, and stylistic and regional labels. Entries include definitions, supportive quotations from P.E.I. sources, editorial notes about various subtleties, and dictionary notes which provide links to some thirty-five other dictionaries. Pratt's introduction defines the criteria for inclusion of words, explains his research methods, and outlines the layout of entries. The end matter includes a bibliography and an important sociolinguistic essay, 'The Dictionary in Profile,' which places the work in the broader context of Prince Edward Island speech. Its range and depth of coverage make this an essential work not only for those concerned with P.E.I. and Maritimes studies, but for all those interested in the regional usage of English.
So You Think You Know The South Shore
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Author : Melissa Bigelow
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-12
So You Think You Know The South Shore written by Melissa Bigelow and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12 with categories.
Testimonies And Secrets
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Author : Robert M. Mennel
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2013-01-01
Testimonies And Secrets written by Robert M. Mennel and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This compelling history is drawn from the papers of the Crouse-Eikle family, discovered in their ancestral home in Crousetown on Nova Scotia's South Shore. Millwright John Will Crouse (18441914) kept a meticulous diary spanning five decades. Reflective by nature, he recorded the challenges of work, pondered the intricacies of communal life, and wrote movingly of his personal and spiritual struggles. His daughter Elvira Crouse Eikle reported on village events for local newspapers, and her son, Harold Eikle (19121977), a gifted teacher and musician, wrote letters and family history. Harold's correspondence celebrated the social liberations of the 1930s and beyond, but also showed their limits in the suffering he experienced as a gay man in a heterosexual world. Using the family papers, other unpublished documents and oral history, Robert M. Mennel connects the experiences of the Crouse-Eikle family and their community to larger themes of social and cultural change in North America. A story of vivid personalities and episodes, by turns sad, conflicted, joyful, bitter, funny and reflective, Testimonies and Secrets will be read with pleasure by scholars and general readers alike.
Car Motorcycle Slang
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Author : Lewis Poteet
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2000-07-24
Car Motorcycle Slang written by Lewis Poteet and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-07-24 with Automobiles categories.
Authors Lewis J. Poteet and Aaron C. Poteet, father and son, also wrote Hockey talk, a dictionary of Hockey slang. This book was born out of the son's lifelong fascination with Police, crime and justice and his father's love of language. Lewis has written or co-authored numerous slang word and phrase books including Plane Talk, Car Talk, and The South Shore Phrase Book. Lewis taught English for 32 years at Concordia University in Montreal and in winter 2000, was adjunct instructor in English at Austin (TX) Community College. Aaron holds a bachelor's degree in criminal justice from Northeastern University in Boston. As a sometime wayward youth, he walked the city streets at night as neighborhood patrol, Guardian Angel, even vigilante. His near obsession with the street led to work in the most thankless profession known to man's law enforcement (and he loved almost every minute of it!) working for the better part of a decade as a Special Police Officer in Boston and then briefly with the Austin Police Department. He now works for a large corporation in field collections. Gathered from live conversation and printed sources, this book presents the lively language of car and motorcycle fans, with entries also from car parts men, mechanics, car salesmen and ordinary drivers. Drawn from California, Canada, Texas, Boston, England, Belize, and other places it evokes the terror, the joy, the pride, the troubles that come from these Rube Goldbergish unholy alliances of fire and water, gasoline, steel, and rubber, designed to drag our bodies down the highway at unlawful speeds and get us caught in horrendous traffic jams, or travel freely in the land of the free and the home of the brave. This informative guide is definitely a must-read book for car and motorcycle enthusiasts. This will help you familiarize with the lingo-from greasy motor engines to racing cars!
Vice Slang
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Author : Tom Dalzell
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2007-10-31
Vice Slang written by Tom Dalzell and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10-31 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Are you a bit of a chairwarmer? Do you use the wins from a country straight to get scudded on snakebite in a blind tiger? Do you ride the waves on puddle or death drop? Vice Slang gently eases you into the language of gambling, drugs and alcohol, providing you with 3,000 words to establish yourself firmly in the world of corruption and wickedness. All words are illustrated by a reference from a variety of sources to prove their existence in alleys and dives throughout the English speaking world. This entertaining book will give you hours of reading pleasure.
The English Language In Canada
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Author : Charles Boberg
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010-08-26
The English Language In Canada written by Charles Boberg and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-26 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The English Language in Canada examines the current status, history and principal features of Canadian English, focusing on the 'standard' variety heard across the country today. The discussion of the status of Canadian English considers the number and distribution of its speakers, its relation to French and other Canadian languages and to American English, its status as the expressive medium of English Canadian culture and its treatment in previous research. The review of its history concentrates on the historical roots and patterns of English-speaking settlement that established Canadian English and influenced its character in each region of Canada. The analysis of its principal features compares the vocabulary, pronunciation and grammar of Canadian English to standard British and American English. Subsequent chapters examine variation and change in the vocabulary and pronunciation of Canadian English, while a final chapter briefly considers the future of Canadian English.