Loading Inventory...

South Shore Phrase Book by Lewis J Poteet, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Lewis J Poteet

Current price: $18.69
South Shore Phrase Book by Lewis J Poteet, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
South Shore Phrase Book by Lewis J Poteet, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Lewis J Poteet

South Shore Phrase Book by Lewis J Poteet, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Current price: $18.69
Loading Inventory...

Size: 0.4 x 8.52 x 0.48

Visit retailer's website
*Product information may vary - to confirm product availability, pricing, shipping and return information please contact Coles
Collected from the talk of the people who live along Nova Scotia's South Shore, from Halifax to Yarmouth on the Atlantic shore, this book is a lively guide to the unusual way they speak. It is both very old, including words and phrases spoken but not written down since before Chaucer, and in a lively way, new and elaborate, like the original, complete version of \"happy as a clam.\" It provides a guide to the life and character of these resilient fisher and farm folk. The work is illustrated with old photographs from the region, and it includes scholarly appendices on \"Elizabethan English on Nova Scotia's South Shore\" and \"Rough Measure in Maritime Dialect Research,\" the latter written with Jacqueline Baum. The language will bring back vivid memories to those who have visited this scenic Maritime place and attract those who have not, to do so. As the record of a limited speech community, it may help students of English as a Second Language. It has been used by novelists, playwrights, and poets (including Robert MacNeil of the MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour, Canada's prolific dramatist Paul LeDoux, and George Elliott Clarke, a much-honored black Canadian poet), to give authentic flavor to their works. It will bring joy and insight to all who love language. | South Shore Phrase Book by Lewis J Poteet, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

More About Coles at Bayshore Shopping Centre

Coles is renowned for its outstanding customer service and great selection of books. Along with the vast array of magazines, stationary, audio-books, children's literature, fiction, non-fiction and reference books, you can find accessories to make your reading experience more pleasurable. We can recommend the very best in reading today. We will help you search our titles for exactly what you need, and if we do not have it in stock, we will order it for you.

100 Bayshore Dr, Nepean, ON K2B 8C1, Canada

Powered by Adeptmind