Frances Peck
August 5, 2014 by Frances Peck | 14 Comments on Notes From Away: Cape Breton English
My first job, selling sundries the summer I was 12 to the cottagers and campers who flocked to Cape Breton’s fabled Mira River, was about as far from the language business as you can get. Yet a few days in, I learned a humbling linguistic lesson. Three times the customer bellowed his order across the […]
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