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New Brunswick Phrase Book

by (author) Dan Soucoup

Publisher
Maritime Lines
Initial publish date
Oct 2014
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781894420440
    Publish Date
    Oct 2014
    List Price
    $13.95

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Description

New Brunswick has its fair share of distinctive dialects and colourful language. These New Brunswickisms are perplexing, hilarious and downright fascinating. This handy book has captured the essence of the province, the words and phrases that are so often heard by not always understood or explained. Included are over 1,000 sayings, phrases, descriptions and curious names that are listed in alphabetical order and defined in plain English.

About the author

Dan Soucoup lives in Halifax and has been active in bookselling and publishing ventures for over 25 years. The author of numerous books including Historic New Brunswick, Glimpses of Old Moncton, and the bestselling Maritime Firsts, Soucoup writes a popular local history column, "Looking Back," for the Moncton Times & Transcript.

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