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Guide to Canadian English Usage
Reissue
Second Edition
Margery Fee and Janice McAlpine
676 pages
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152x228mm
978-0-19-544593-0
24 March 2011
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- Up-to-date examples of English usage, taken from a variety of Canadian sources - from novels and popular magazines to newspapers and academic essays - illustrate common problems and solutions.
- Thorough treatment of language problems common to all English-speakers includes coverage of confusibles, difficult expressions, and troublesome pronunciations.
- Supplemented with information on pronunciation, spelling, and usage from the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition.
- Includes detailed information First People' languages, cross-referenced through a convenient appendix.
The complexities of the English language can be daunting for even the most fluent speakers, and for Canadians this is doubly so with the mixture of British and American traditions. Almost anyone engaged in formal writing will sometimes need to consult a usage guide for advice, but Canadians have always been forced to choose between a British or an American source. With the Guide to Canadian English Usage, writers will have an authoritative reference based on Canadian sources that provides pithy direction on numerous details of the language.
From the indefinite article to zoology,
alphabetically arranged entries clarify issues of word choice, punctuation, spelling, and abbreviation. Throughout it offers guidance on Canadianisms, confusibles, difficult expressions, First Nation names, foreign phrases, grammar, inclusive language, punctuation, spelling, and troublesome pronunciations. 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. All entries feature a wide range of fascinating quotations from Canadian sources.
Newly reissued in an attractive hardcover edition, the Guide to Canadian English Usage is the essential reference for any writer, editor, or speaker of English in
Canada.Readership: This A-Z guide to the way Canadians use the English language is an essential reference for students, business people, and anyone engaged in formal writing.
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Margery Fee, Professor of English, University of British Columbia, Canada, and Janice McAlpine, Former Unit Director of the Strathy Language Unit, Queen's University, Canada Margery Fee is the former Director of the Strathy Language Unit at Queen's University. She currently teaches Canadian and post-colonial literature at the University of British Columbia.
Janice McAlpine is the former Unit Director of the Strathy Language Unit at Queen's University.
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Introduction to the Second Edition
Introduction to the First Edition
Acknowledgements
Notes on Format
Usage Guide
Appendix I Provinces and Territories
Appendix II A Notes on Measurement
Appendix III Aboriginal Groups Mentioned in the Guide
Glossary
Sources
Works Consulted
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