Guide to Canadian English Usage: Reissue

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Margery Fee (Professor of English, Professor of English, University of British Columbia, Canada) Janice McAlpine (Former Unit Director of the Strathy Language Unit, Former Unit Director of the Strathy Language Unit, Queen's University, Canada)

Guide to Canadian English Usage

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Margery Fee (Professor of English, Professor of English, University of British Columbia, Canada), Janice McAlpine (Former Unit Director of the Strathy Language Unit, Former Unit Director of the Strathy Language Unit, Queen's University, Canada)

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Oxford University Press, Canada
29 March 2011

Usage & grammar guides; Encyclopaedias & reference works

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.

By: Margery Fee (Professor of English Professor of English University of British Columbia Canada), Janice McAlpine (Former Unit Director of the Strathy Language Unit, Former Unit Director of the Strathy Language Unit, Queen's University, Canada)
Imprint: Oxford University Press, Canada
Country of Publication: Canada
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions: Height: 231mm, Width: 159mm, Spine: 37mm
Weight: 1.004kg
ISBN: 9780195445930
ISBN 10: 0195445937
Pages: 676
Publication Date: 29 March 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Guide to Canadian English Usage: Reissue

A most welcome ... clear ... addition to your collection of interesting, informative lexicons. --Globe and Mail Splendidly comprehensive, beautifully organized, lucidly written, this book seems certain to become not only the standard reference work on its subject but also an important contribution to the ongoing debates about how language is used. --Canadian Literature A book to end all arguments, it should also prove invaluable to word-smiths of all stripes. --Halifax Daily News A good book, well worth having. --Books in Canada ... the [Guide to Canadian English Usage] makes a balanced presentation of areas where controversy may arise in English usage, carving out for itself a niche which distinguishes it from a standard dictionary on the one hand and from an encyclopedia on the other. The volume will be of use to Canadian students, scholars, and writers as a reference source; to researchers and writers outside of Canada as a source of data on Canadian English usage; and to anyone interested not just in English but in general knowledge of Canada as a source of entertainment and information to be 'snacked' on from time to time or even to be devoured cover to cover. --Language, the journal for the Linguistic Society of America