Margaret Harry
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The English Language in Nova Scotia
Essays on Past and Present Developments in English across the Province
Can we offer you some Patti-pans? Some fungee or lassybread? How about a derasifying padana?
Before you absquotilate in a dander, come aboard of this anthology, and explore some of the fascinating ways in which the English language has developed in Nova Scotia. This book covers such topics as pronunciation, semantics, grammatical structures, language contact, dialect features, ethnic and gender roles. nicknames, and place names.