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Weird Canadian Words

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Author : Edrick Thay
language : en
Publisher:
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Weird Canadian Words written by Edrick Thay and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Electronic books categories.

Anorak, butter tart, ballicatter, kayak, stubby, toonie--these are familiar Canadian words. But where did they come from? What quirks of language and fate have made them truly Canadian? Even though we speak the same language as the Yanks and the Brits, Canadians have a unique dialect that is recognized around the world, and each province has its own eccentricities. Edrick Thay presents well-known and obscure Canadianisms in this often-humorous glossary of words from across the country: ? all-Canadian words--Canuck, hockey, loonie, Medicare, tuque and the ubiquitous eh ? Qu?b?cois words--tourti?re, cretons, shivaree and Bombardier ? words from Ontario--BeaverTails, reeve, Wonderbra and zipper ? West Coast terms--potlatch, hooch, Nanaimo bar and skookum ? words of the sea-faring Atlantic provinces--screech, ballicatter, slob ice and blue nose ? aboriginal words--skookum, potlatch, chinook and high muckamuck ? western Canadianisms--canola, Bloody Caesar, bunnyhug, M?tis and stubble jumper ? and words of the North--inuksuk, Klondike, mukluk, pingo and toboggan.

Weird Canada

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006

Weird Canada written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Canada categories.

Casselman S Canadian Words

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Author : Bill Casselman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995

Casselman S Canadian Words written by Bill Casselman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

Casselmania

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Author : Bill Casselman
language : en
Publisher: Boston ; Toronto : Little, Brown Canada
Release Date : 1996

Casselmania written by Bill Casselman and has been published by Boston ; Toronto : Little, Brown Canada this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with History categories.

Words & phrases used by Canadians

Canadian Sayings 2

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Author : Bill Casselman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002

Canadian Sayings 2 written by Bill Casselman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

Folk sayings are passed by word of mouth in communities where life and work are shared, and Bill Casselman has collected 1,000 absolute beauties in this all new edition.

Canadian Words Sayings

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Author : Bill Casselman
language : en
Publisher: McArthur
Release Date : 2006

Canadian Words Sayings written by Bill Casselman and has been published by McArthur this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Anglais (Langue) - Canada - Idiotismes categories.

In this new anthology, Bill Casselman delights and startles with word stories from every province and territory of Canada. Did you know that to deke out is a Canadian verb that began as hockey slang, short for 'to decoy an opponent.' That Canada has a fish that ignites? On our Pacific coast, the oolichan or candlefish is so full of oil it can be lighted at one end and used as a candle.Did you know that the very first Skid Row or Skid Road in Canada was in Vancouver at the end of the 19th century? The term originated because out-of-work loggers drank in cheap saloons at the end of a road used to skid logs. Skids were greased logs used to slide rough timber to a waterway or railhead. The juicy lore and tangy tales of Canadian foods that founded a nation are here too: from scrunchins to rubbaboo, from bangbelly to poutine, from Winnipeg jambusters to Nanaimo bars. This is the book on Canada's words and sayings that should be in every house in the the country where people are proud to say: "That's Canadian, eh."

Weird And Wonderful Words

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Author : Erin McKean
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2002

Weird And Wonderful Words written by Erin McKean and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Humor categories.

Lists the meaning of hundreds of bizarre and unusual words and includes a guide to coining new words.

Uncle John S Bathroom Reader Weird Canada

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Author : Bathroom Readers' Institute
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2013-09-10

Uncle John S Bathroom Reader Weird Canada written by Bathroom Readers' Institute and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-10 with Humor categories.

The Great White North is revealed as the Great Weird North in this entertaining tome from the best-selling Bathroom Reader series. Did you know that Canada was almost called Hochelaga? That’s just one of thousands of wacky facts awaiting readers in Uncle John’s quirky celebration of Earth’s second largest country. You’ll find page after page of bizarre history (like why the beaver was once classified as a fish), plus head-scratching news items (like the crook who returned to the Tim Hortons he’d just robbed to tip the workers), odd places to go (like Mr. Spock’s birthplace in a town called Vulcan), and crazy eats (like the restaurant that makes you eat in complete darkness). So whether you live in Come By Chance, Joe Batt’s Arm, Starvation Cove, or anywhere else inside (or outside) of Canada, yukon count on Uncle John to deliver a world of weirdness from all over this great country. For example: - Cow-patty bingo in Alberta (Rule #1: Wear gloves) - How to enforce the new Quebec law that requires dogs to be bilingual - The sea of Molson Golden that once shut down an Ontario freeway - The mystery of the mini earthquakes in a New Brunswick town - Why it’s illegal to kill a sasquatch in British Columbia - The Nova Scotia company that makes mattresses for cows - Saskatchewan’s Willow Bunch Giant, a real man who could lift a horse over his head - The giant fiberglass “Happy Rock” statue in--where else?--Gladstone, Manitoba And much, much more!

Creating Canadian English

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Author : Stefan Dollinger
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-07-11

Creating Canadian English written by Stefan Dollinger 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 2019-07-11 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

Traces the making of Canadian English, both as concept and global variety, throughout the twentieth century to the present.

Bizarre Canada

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Author : Joanna Emery
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010

Bizarre Canada written by Joanna Emery and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Canada categories.

The tendency to consider Canadians a bland people who delight only in the ordinary and orthodox couldn't be further from the truth. Canada is rife with the weird, wacky and off-the-wall from sea to shining sea--Pumpkin Festivals in Nova Scotia, a giant dino turd in Sadkatchewan, an official mace made from plumbing parts in the Alberta legislature and so much more!