The listing for ‘flower’ provides the reader with the
name of the official flower of each Canadian province and territory. Look up
‘motto’, ‘tree’, or ‘bird’, and the provincial
and territorial mottoes, tress, and birds are there as well.
And what
thesaurus could call itself even remotely Canadian without at least a
baker’s dozen of synonyms for “donut”?
Hudson Bay
Coat, McLaughlin Buick, Bricklin, Zamboni? Yes, they’re in here. So too
are fiddlehead, Herring Choker, and Digby Chick.
- The book has been exhaustively cross-referenced against a wide
range of Canadian language reference works including the Newfoundland and
Prince Edward Island dictionaries and (more recently) the new Canadian Oxford,
to name a few.
- The book supplies the reader with more than 500,000 synonyms,
plus some 70,000 antonyms and more shades of meaning than any of its
competitors.
- All synonyms are clearly labeled as to parts of speech,
designated as formal or non-formal, and ranked by popularity of use.
- Additionally, this thesaurus highlights 'kinds of' and 'groups
of' words related to the initial key word, a feature seldom found in similar
reference works.
- This book is richly geographic in its attribution of origins.
Whether the word in question was born in France, Germany, England, the
Maritimes, the Canadian Prairies, or the Pacific coast, the reader will know.
- The book is uniquely rich with references to Canada's 'First
Peoples'.
- The Editorial Director of this project - Dr. J.K. Chambers,
Professor of Linguistics at the University of Toronto - has served as Fitzhenry
Whiteside's editorial consultant on the ongoing Canadianization of the
Funk Wagnalls Canadian College Dictionary since 1980. Recently, he served
as Canadian English Editorial Advisor on the new Canadian Oxford Dictionary
(1998), and wrote the Preface to that best-selling volume. Dr. Chambers is
inter- nationally recognized as a pre-eminent authority on Canadian English and
English language usage in Canada.
Compiled by Celia Munro. Editorial Director: Dr. J.K. Chambers.
Published by Fitzhenry Whiteside, 2001. |
