Prince Edward Island Sayings

A long-awaited companion volume to T.K. Pratt's DICTIONARY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND ENGLISH (1988), this delightful collection includes more than a thousand colorful and imaginative proverbs, folk sayings, catchphrases, and idioms characteristic of the speech and attitudes of Prince Edward Islanders. Meticulously researched, the book offers a unique blend of the scholarly and the popular.

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Edited by Scott Burke and T.K. Pratt

Summary

A long-awaited companion volume to Pratt's Dictionary of Prince Edward Island English, this delightful collection includes more than 1,000 proverbs, folk sayings, and catchphrases characteristic of the speech and attitudes of Prince Edward Islanders.

Product details

• Assisted by: Scott Burke (Editor), T K Pratt (Editor), T. K. Pratt (Editor), T.K. Pratt (Editor)
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.06.1998
• EAN: 9780802009203
• ISBN: 978-0-8020-0920-3
• No. of pages: 277
• Dimensions: 181 mm x 255 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 564 g
• Series: Heritage; Heritage
• Subjects: Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Foreign-language dictionaries