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Chargement... Only in Canada You Say: A Treasury of Canadian Language (2007)par Katherine Barber
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I'll come right out and say it - I'm Canadian. So I assumed that my speech was liberally peppered with Canadianisms (an assumption that was confirmed when visiting South Carolina last summer and being the subject of giggles for my "accent"). What surprised me, however, was how many regional variations had crept into my speech from my time living both out west and down east. Sure, I used to live in a bachelor, and I like butter tarts, caesars and coffee double-double just as much as the next Canuck. But I also eat spits (west), holubtsi (prairies), and have my pizza all dressed (east). I love Canadianisms. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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! Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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