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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:For William Gordon Casselman (born 1942) is a Canadian writer and broadcaster. He has written about Canadian words,[1] maintains a website about English etymology[2] and a blog, The Casselmanual.[3]

Bibliography

  • Casselman's Canadian Words: A Comic Browse through Words & Folk Sayings Invented by Canadians
  • Casselmania: More Wacky Canadian Words & Sayings 1996 Little, Brown, Шаблон:ISBN
  • Canadian Garden Words, 1997, McArthur & Company, Шаблон:ISBN
  • A Dictionary of Medical Derivations: The Real Meanings of Medical Words, 1998, Parthenon Publishing Group, Шаблон:ISBN
  • Canadian Food Words: The Juicy Lore & Tasty Origins of Foods That Founded a Nation 1998, 1999 McArthur & Company Шаблон:ISBN
    • The book was a recipient of the 1999 Canadian Culinary Book Award [4]
  • What's in a Canadian Name? The Origins and Meanings of Canadian Surnames, 2000 McArthur & Company, Шаблон:ISBN
  • Canadian Sayings : 1200 Folk Sayings Used by Canadians, Collected and Annotated by Bill Casselman,1999 McArthur & Company, Toronto, Canada Шаблон:ISBN
  • Canadian Sayings 2: 1000 Folk Sayings Used by Canadians, 2002 McArthur & Company,Шаблон:ISBN
  • Canadian Sayings 3: 1000 Folk Sayings Used by Canadians, 2004 McArthur & Company,Шаблон:ISBN
  • As The Canoe Tips: Comic Scenes from Canadian Life, 2005 McArthur & Company, Шаблон:ISBN
  • Canadian Words & Sayings, 2006 McArthur & Company, Шаблон:ISBN
  • Where a Dobdob Meets a Dikdik, 2010, Adams Media, Шаблон:ISBN (also available in several e-book formats)
    • Excerpt: "I delight in the joy of odd bird names: <...> How about an authentic bird name such as the Sooty Boubou? Sooty Boubou. Sounds like something that must be cured by an injection of antibiotics, after being contracted during an unwise moment of carnality in a Nairobi outhouse."
  • At The Wording Desk: Notes nimble and spry about the origin of words, 2016 Trafford Publishing, Шаблон:ISBN (sc) and Шаблон:ISBN (hc) (self-published)
  • Word Stash: Why Words Mean What They Mean, 2017 Trafford Publishing, Шаблон:ISBN (sc) and Шаблон:ISBN (hc) (self-published)
  • Diary of a Daft Canuck: a novel by Bill Casselman, 2022 First Choice Books, Victoria, BC Шаблон:ISBN (self-published)

References

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  1. "The English Language in Canada: Status, History and Comparative Analysis", by Charles Boberg, Шаблон:ISBN, 2010, p. 49
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  3. Шаблон:Cite web
  4. Canadian Culinary Book Award