Dictionary of Newfoundland English - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1550810243 ISBN 13: 9781550810240

Publisher: Breakwater Books Ltd, 1990

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W.J. Kirwin is Professor of English at Memorial University

G.M. Story was Professor of English at Memorial University.

J.D.A. Widdowson is Reader in English Language at Sheffield University and Director of the Centre for English Cultural Tradition and Language.

Review

'To everyone who loves words, it will be a treasure-house. It's one of those rare books that combine consummate scholarship with a sense of fun and emotional commitment.' - Sandra Gwynn - Saturday Night

'Much more than a book of definitions, this dictionary is a flahoolach repository of the folklore and the folkways and even the sound and the spirit of pre-Hibernian oilfield, pre-Confederation Newfoundland. It is a book which, combined with a working fireplace, can use up your whole winter.' - Jack Chambers - Globe and Mail

'The whimsy and joyous spirit that even an outsider sees as the defining nature of a granite island that is closer to London than to Winnipeg.' - Kenneth Freed - Los Angeles Times

'A bracing tonic for those who fear that verbal sophistication in Canada has peaked with the McKenzie Brothers. And it is a book that can knock you off your tawt with laughter one moment and glaum you in wonder the next.' - Maclean's

'A majestic work of scholarship ... It illustrates perfectly the way that language evolves to fit historical and geographical circumstances ... Splendid.' - Philip Howard - The Times

'Much more than a book of definitions, this dictionary is a flahoolach repository of the folklore and the folkways and even the sound and the spirit of pre-Hibernian oilfield, pre-Confederation Newfoundland. It is a book which, combined with a working fireplace, can use up your whole winter.'

- Jack Chambers - Globe and Mail

'The whimsy and joyous spirit that even an outsider sees as the defining nature of a granite island that is closer to London than to Winnipeg.'

- Kenneth Freed - Los Angeles Times

'A bracing tonic for those who fear that verbal sophistication in Canada has peaked with the McKenzie Brothers. And it is a book that can knock you off your tawt with laughter one moment and glaum you in wonder the next.'

- Maclean's

'A majestic work of scholarship ... It illustrates perfectly the way that language evolves to fit historical and geographical circumstances ... Splendid.'

- Philip Howard - The Times

'To everyone who loves words, it will be a treasure-house. It's one of those rare books that combine consummate scholarship with a sense of fun and emotional commitment.'

- Sandra Gwynn - Saturday Night

About this edition

• Publisher: Breakwater Books Ltd
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 1550810243
• ISBN 13: 9781550810240
• Binding: Hardcover
• Editor: Story G. M., Kirwin W. J., Widdowson J. D. A.