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- catalog abstract ""Canadian English is a variety of English in its own right, with its own distinctive mix of features. Yet in the past Canadians wanting to find out about their language have often had to choose between British and American guides. The Guide to Canadian English Usage offers an alternative based on what Canadian writers (among them Margaret Atwood, Pierre Berton, Northrop Frye, Janice Kulyk Keefer, Robert Kroetsch, and Miriam Waddington) actually do." "Drawing on a corpus of 12 million words of Canadian English published in books, magazines, scholarly journals, and newspapers, its 1,750 entries provide comprehensive coverage of specifically Canadian questions as well as problems common to all English-speakers." "Each entry explains the problem at hand, outlines a range of prescriptions, and then either recommends a particular usage or reviews the alternatives from which the now-informed reader can choose. Quotations from a wide range of sources - including, in addition to the corpus, a further 650 million words of Canadian newspaper and magazine writing - illustrate both problems and solutions."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b10623170.
- catalog contributor b10623171.
- catalog created "1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
- catalog description ""Canadian English is a variety of English in its own right, with its own distinctive mix of features. Yet in the past Canadians wanting to find out about their language have often had to choose between British and American guides. The Guide to Canadian English Usage offers an alternative based on what Canadian writers (among them Margaret Atwood, Pierre Berton, Northrop Frye, Janice Kulyk Keefer, Robert Kroetsch, and Miriam Waddington) actually do." "Drawing on a corpus of 12 million words of Canadian English published in books, magazines, scholarly journals, and newspapers, its 1,750 entries provide comprehensive coverage of specifically Canadian questions as well as problems common to all English-speakers." "Each entry explains the problem at hand, outlines a range of prescriptions, and then either recommends a particular usage or reviews the alternatives from which the now-informed reader can choose. Quotations from a wide range of sources - including, in addition to the corpus, a further 650 million words of Canadian newspaper and magazine writing - illustrate both problems and solutions."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xxvi, 549 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0195408411 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Toronto ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Canada".
- catalog subject "428/.00971/03 21".
- catalog subject "Canadianisms Dictionaries.".
- catalog subject "English language Canada Usage Dictionaries.".
- catalog subject "PE3235 .F44 1997".
- catalog title "Guide to Canadian English usage / Margery Fee and Janice McAlpine.".
- catalog type "Dictionaries. fast".
- catalog type "text".