Wet Coast Words: A Dictionary of British Columbia Words and Phrases

by Tom Parkin

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0920501303
• ISBN13: 9780920501306
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Light hearted alphabet of off-beat words

To test Wet Coast Words, I tried to come up with a small list of BC words: whistlepunk, geoduck, widowmaker, PNE, crummy, saltchuck, and peevee. All but peevee appear in Wet Coast Words. For comparison, the new Canadian Oxford Dictionary (1998) misses peevee and geoduck. On the downside, Wet Coast Words is not a formal dictionary. The entries are encyclopedic or anecdotal rather than the traditional: ie. a) part of speech, b) pronunciation, c) first meaning, d) second meaning, etc ,and e) etymology. Too bad because this makes the book much less useful as a reference but it is a fun read.Perhaps a 10th anniversary edition with revisions and additions will come out next year. If it does, peevee (long crow-bar like tool with grapple on one end used to move about logs in log booms) could be included.