A Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles
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Title: A Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical ...
Publisher: W.J. Gage Ltd, Toronto
Publication Date: 1967
Binding: Hardcover
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A dictionary of Canadianisms on historical principles
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A Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles
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A Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. First Edition. 926 pp. Edgewear. Corners rubbed. Spine ends bumped. Red cloth boards, gilt lettering on spine. Years in preparation, the book provides a fascinating look at the terms used by Canadians throughout the land. Heavy book. 2 copies available. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Seller Inventory # REF0407
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A Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 7.25 x 9.75 inches approximately. 927 pages. In near fine/fine condition, very minor wear. Includes a book review newspaper article from The Globe magazine: 'Never before has a systematic record of Canadian English with illustrative and illuminating quotations been collected and published', eh? Seller Inventory # 503204
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A DICTIONARY OF CANADIANISMS ON HISTORICAL PRINCIPLES Produced By the Lexicographical Centre for Canadian English, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Galt, Jean; Guest, Mary (illustrator). 1st. (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". Seller Inventory # 08120
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A DICTIONARY of CANADIANISMS on HISTORICAL PRINCIPLES.
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A Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First Edition. Large octavo, original red cloth over boards, gilt lettering on spine, acetate cover black and white illustrations throughout. Dictionary of Canadianisms, "words which are native to Canada or which have meanings peculiar to Canada." Near Fine, in Near Fine acetate cover. Seller Inventory # 252490
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A Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles (Series: Dictionary of Canadian English.)
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1967. (Hardcover) Fine, no dust jacket. 927pp. In the vinyl dust jacket and in the publisher's slipcase. Illustrations, bibliography. The slipcase has some wear at the edges and has some peeling at the back. Series: Dictionary of Canadian English. (Dictionary, Dictionary, Language). Seller Inventory # 100147
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A Dictionary of Canadianisms on historical Principles
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Produced for W> J. Gage Limited by the Lexicographical Centre for Canadian English, University of Citoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. xxiii, 926 [1]p., b/w text drawings, original red cloth, quarto format. Seller Inventory # 048998
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