Strupac, fornenst, trappy, scriss, kippy, snool, flying axehandles, from across - these and hundreds of other fascinating and colourful words and phrases give t

A long-awaited companion volume to T.K. Pratt's "Dictionary of Prince Edward Island English," this delightful collection includes more than 1,000 proverbs, folk

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How did a single genre of text have the power to standardise the English language across time and region, rival the Bible in notions of authority, and challenge