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Author : Thomas M. Paikeday
Publisher : Viking Canada
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1990-05-01
Category : English language
ISBN : 0670819700
Author : Thomas M. Paikeday
Publisher : Markham, Ont. : Penguin Books Canada ; Mississauga, Ont. : Copp Clark Pitman
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026088992
Author : John Robert Colombo
Publisher : Penguin Books Canada
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Canada
ISBN : 0143053698
"It is a very large field but well worth looking at very carefully." --Winston Churchill on Canada For everyone interested in looking carefully at the large field that is Canada, John Robert Colombo has compiled a brand new collection of memorable and significant quotations by Canadians and about Canada. This entertaining compendium contains more than 4000 quotations from 1400 contributors that cover over 900 topics, from Sir John A. Macdonald on the British Empire to Stephen Harper on taxes. Combining the serious thought of academics such as Michael Ignatieff with the witty remarks of comedians such as Rick Mercer, "The Penguin Dictionary of Popular Canadian Quotations" is designed for leisurely browsing as well as for popular reference and includes many never-before-anthologized quotations that shed light on how we perceive our country and the world today. "Canada is like an intelligent, thirty-five-year-old woman." --Douglas Adams "It is a vast country, so that inspires you. It's also the greatest hotel on earth: It welcomes people from everywhere. It's a good country to write from because in many ways Canada is the world." --Yann Martel "What defines a Canadian best? It must be the lurking fear that somewhere, somehow, you might have offended someone." --Margaret Wente
Author : Sansome, Rosemary,K. J. (Kenneth Jerome) Weber
Publisher : Puffin Books
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : English language
ISBN : 0670893269
Author : Nelson Education Limited
Publisher : Nelson Canada
Page : 1694 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : English language
ISBN : 0176047263
Author : Penguin Group (Canada)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1107 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Dictionaries
ISBN : 0140512632
Author : Ken Weber
Publisher : Puffin Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0141309660
Designed specifically for Canadian children, this book introduces young readers to the magic workings of a dictionary. More sophisticated than a picture dictionary, yet still containing more than 300 illustrations, The Puffin Canadian Beginner's Dictionary teaches both vocabulary and dictionary skills, and has been completely revised and updated to include material relating to new technology and current words. Intended primarily for six to nine year olds, the dictionary contains more than 6000 headwords, defined simply and clearly. Each sense of a word is numbered separately and begins on a fresh line. The words chosen for inclusion are those most likely to be needed by children in this age range. Accordingly, irregular or difficult plural and verbal forms have been included only in terms of their likely usage at this level. Examples of usage are provided wherever appropriate. Single pronunciation guides are given for words with difficult or ambiguous pronunciations. As well, two words per page spread are illustrated clearly and appealingly. The Puffin Canadian Beginner's Dictionary also contains appendices filled with useful information for Canadian schoolchildren: lists of information about Canada's provinces and territories, including websites; geographical information; and biographical information about Canada's Olympians and Prime Ministers.
Author : Public Works and Government Services Canada Translation Bureau,Dundurn Press Limited
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1997-09-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781770700833
The revised edition of The Canadian Style is an indispensable language guide for editors, copywriters, students, teachers, lawyers, journalists, secretaries and business people – in fact, anyone writing in the English language in Canada today. It provides concise, up-to-date answers to a host of questions on abbreviations, hyphenation, spelling, the use of capital letters, punctuation and frequently misused or confused words. It deals with letter, memo and report formats, notes, indexes and bibliographies, and geographical names. It also gives techniques for writing clearly and concisely, editing documents and avoiding stereotyping in communications. There is even an appendix on how to present French words in an English text.
Author : Sandra Clarke
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1993-11-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027276810
Although varieties of North American English have come in for a good deal of linguistic scrutiny in recent years, the vast majority of published works have dealt with American rather than Canadian English. This volume constitutes a welcome addition to our linguistic knowledge of English-speaking Canada. While the focus of the volume is primarily synchronic, several of the dozen papers it contains offer a diachronic perspective on Canadian English. Topics range from general issues in Canadian lexicography and orthography to sociolinguistic studies of varieties of English spoken in all major geographical areas of the country: Atlantic Canada, Ontario, Quebec and the West. A theme common to many of the articles is the relationship of Canadian English to American varieties to the south.
Author : Rosalind Fergusson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Reference
ISBN : UCSC:32106015082669
In the PENGUIN REFERENCE series, a book containing definitions and explanations of abbreviations used in the English language. It is compiled by the editor of PENGUIN DICTIONARY OF PROVERBS.
Author : Stefan Dollinger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108497718
Traces the making of Canadian English, both as concept and global variety, throughout the twentieth century to the present.
Author : Jean Chevalier,Alain Gheerbrant
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1997-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780140512540
This remarkable and wide-ranging book is an inventory of symbols and the symbolic imagination. The editors and their fifteen contributors are drawn from a variety of scholarly backgrounds—including anthropology, ethnology, psychotherapy and art history. This diversity of approach is responsible for the book's unique character, a reflection of the multiplicity of symbols and signs and the phenomenal range of possible interpretations they offer. This book draws together folklore, literary and artistic sources, and focuses on the symbolic dimension of every colour, number, sound, gesture, expression or character trait that has benefitted from symbolic interpretation. The conscious and unconscious minds are explored, desire and dreams are treated alongside the known and the chronicled. Extraordinary in its range and eclecticism, this dictionary was originally published in French as the Dictionnaire des Symboles, and it is regarded as the standard work on the subject.
Author : R. E. Allen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : English language
ISBN : 9756363959
Author : David Wells
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1997-09-04
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780141929408
Why was the number of Hardy's taxi significant? Why does Graham's number need its own notation? How many grains of sand would fill the universe? What is the connection between the Golden Ratio and sunflowers? Why is 999 more than a distress call? All these questions and a host more are answered in this fascinating book, which has now been newly revised, with nearly 200 extra entries and some 250 additions to the original entries. From minus one and its square root, via cyclic, weird, amicable, perfect, untouchable and lucky numbers, aliquot sequences, the Cattle problem, Pascal's triangle and the Syracuse algorithm, music, magic and maps, pancakes, polyhedra and palindromes, to numbers so large that they boggle the imagination, all you ever wanted to know about numbers is here. There is even a comprehensive index for those annoying occasions when you remember the name but can't recall the number.
Author : A. P. Cowie
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 1017 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-04
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780191558078
These substantial volumes present the fullest account yet published of the lexicography of English from its origins in medieval glosses, through its rapid development in the eighteenth century, to a fully-established high-tech industry that is as reliant as ever on learning and scholarship. The history covers dictionaries of English and its national varieties, including American English, with numerous references to developments in Europe and elsewhere which have influenced the course of English lexicography. Part one of Volume I explores the early development of glosses and bilingual and multilingual dictionaries and examines their influence on lexicographical methods and ideas. Part two presents a systematic history of monolingual dictionaries of English and includes extensive chapters on Johnson, Webster and his successors in the USA, and the OED. It also contains descriptions of the development of dictionaries of national and regional varieties, and of Old and Middle English, and concludes with an account of the computerization of the OED. The specialized dictionaries described in Volume II include dictionaries of science, dialects, synonyms, etymology, pronunciation, slang and cant, quotations, phraseology, and personal and place names. This volume also includes an account of the inception and development of dictionaries developed for particular users, especially foreign learners of English. The Oxford History of English Lexicography unites scholarship with readability. It provides a unique and accessible reference for scholars and professional lexicographers and offers a series of fascinating encounters with the men and women involved over the centuries in the making of works of profound national and linguistic importance.
