Only in Canada You Say by Barber, Katherine - 2008

Toronto: OUP Canada, 2008 Katherine Barber, Editor-in-Chief of the best-selling Canadian Oxford Dictionary .has written a new book filled with nothing but made-in-Canada vocabulary. Only in Canada You Say highlights more than 1,200 words and phrases that are unique to our neck of the woods. Did you know, for example, that every time you ask for Gravol at the drug, you're using a word that is unknown anywhere else? That those tasty butter tarts your mother used to make don't exist beyond our borders? Or that there are three distinctly Canadian sex words? And .it is still pretty interesting to discover that there are 17 Canadian words for ice! Organized thematically [and covering] Canadian English from coast to coast to coast, with sections dedicated to the things we love to do, where we live, how we get around, and what we wear. The entertaining and informative introductions to each section provide a fresh, often eye-opening, perspective on the reality of Canadian English. 272p. Author inscription on title page. Signed by Author. 1st Can Ed.. Hardcover. As New/New.