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Downie, Mary Alice

ABC Acadie : An Acadian Alphabet / by Mary Alice Downie.  Kingston, ON : Quarry Heritage Books, 2014. 48 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PZ7 D68 2014

An illustrated history of Acadie for children. Illustrated by Anne LeBlanc.

LeBlanc, Anne

English language — Alphabet — Juvenile literature
Alphabet books — Juvenile literature
Frontier and pioneer life — Canada — Juvenile literature

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Hosterman, C. O.

English grammar simplified, or, Lessons for the young in prose and verse / C. Hosterman.  Halifax : Northern Light Office, 1883. 16 frames.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfiche CIHM 07014 - Open Shelf    Internet Archive

To the Public signed : C. Hosterman.

English language — Grammar — Textbooks
English language — Grammar — 1870-1949

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A sequence English grammer : part III Edinburgh : Oliver and Boyd,. 120 pages : 18 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.403 #19 - Vertical File

English language — Grammar

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Staniford, Daniel

A short but comprehensive grammar, rendered simple and easy by familiar questions and answers .. / by Daniel Staniford.  2nd ed. enl. Charlestown, SC : Samuel Etheridge for John West, 1800. 96 pages : 16 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.309 #28 - Vertical File

Photocopy of original.

English language — Grammar
Textbooks

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Davis, Bernard

All immigrant ESL class or regular classroom placement? : an evaluation of a program for immigrant pupils at St. Francis School, Halifax, 1981 / Bernard Davis, Deborah Engram, Henry Lackner.  Halifax : Saint Mary's University, International Education Centre, 1982-. 41 pages : illustrations; 29 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.309 #21 - Vertical File

Schneider, Ruth Morris

The wolf's last cry / Ruth Morris Schneider.  New York : McGraw-Hill, 1984. vii, 56 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.297 #2 - Vertical File

Poteet, Lewis J.

The South Shore phrase book / compiled by Lewis J. Poteet.  Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1983. 72 pages : illustrations; 21 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.261 #7 - Vertical File

Words and phrases from the coastal villages between St. Margaret's Bay, near Halifax, and Woods Harbour, near Yarmouth, the South Shore of Nova Scotia

English language — Dialects — Nova Scotia — Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
English language — Provincialisms
Nova Scotia — Social life and customs.

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Rand, Silas Tertius

A specimen of the Micmac dictionary : being prepared at the expense of the dominion government of Canada / by Silas T. Rand.  Halifax : 1885-. 8 pages : 21 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.171 #9 - Vertical File

Text in English and Micmac. Caption title. Dated: Hantsport, Nova Scotia, November, 1885.

English language — Dictionaries — Mi'kmaq
Mi'kmaq language — Dictionaries — English
Mi'kmaq language — Grammar.

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Faucett, Lawrence

The Oxford English course / by Lawrence Faucett.  Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1940. 48 pages, illustrations; 19 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.118 #17 - Vertical File

English language — Study and teaching

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Graves, Donald E.

French military terminology, 1670-1815 : a technical glossary / by Donald E. Graves.  Saint John : New Brunswick Museum, 1979. 54 pages : 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.22 #1 - Vertical File

Bromley, Walter

The English grammar made easy, by being reduced to the form of a catechism, for the mutual instruction of youth, either on the old or new system of education / Walter Bromley.  Halifax : Printed at the Royal Acadian School, 1822. 103 pages ; 15 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK LTG76 B78 - Akins

Royal Acadian School.

English language — Grammar

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A new and complete dictionary of arts and sciences comprehending all the branches of knowledge ... by a society of gentlemen London : W. Owen, 1754. 4v.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK AGN42 - Akins

English language — Dictionaries.

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Ludwig, Christian

A Dictionary : English, German, and French, containing not only the English words ... but also their proper accent, phrases ... and proverbs taken from the best new English dictionaries / Christian Ludwig.  2nd ed. rev. , corr. and augm. Leipzig, Germany : 1736. 1 v.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK AGL - Akins

English language — Dictionaries.

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Johnson, Samuel

Dictionary of the English language :, A in which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated in their di London : J. and F. Rivington, 1785. 2 v.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK AGJ6 - Akins

English language — Dictionaries

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Encyclopaedia Britannica : a dictionary of arts, sciences and miscellaneous literature 3rd ed. Edinburgh : A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797. 18 v. : illustrations ; 27 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK AEE5 - Akins

Gleig, George
Macfarquhar, Colin

English language — Encyclopedias and dictionaries.

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Rycraft, Ann

English mediaeval handwriting / compiled by Ann Rycraft.  2rd ed. York : University of York, Borthwick Institute of Historical Research, 1973. 1 v. (loose-leaf) : illustrations ; 21 x 30 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - Z43 A3 R991 #3

Paleography, English
English language — Writing

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Rycraft, Ann

Sixteenth and seventeenth century handwriting / compiled by Ann Rycraft.  3rd ed. York : University of York, Borthwick Institute of Historical Research, 1972. 1 v. (loose-leaf) : illustrations ; 21 x 30 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - Z43 A3 R991 #2

Paleography, English
English language — Writing

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Rycraft, Ann

Sixteenth and seventeenth century handwriting / compiled by Ann Rycraft.  3rd ed. York : University of York, Borthwick Institute of Historical Research, 1972. 1 v. (loose-leaf) : illustrations ; 21 x 30 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - Z43 A3 R991 #1

Paleography, English
English language — Writing

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Delisle, Gilles L.

Micmac teaching grammar : preliminary version / Gilles L. Delisle and Emmanuel L. Metallic ; art work by Georgette O'Bomsawin.  Ecowi, Que. : Thunderbird Press, 1976. xii, 571 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PM231 L755 D354

MacNeil, Robert

Wordstruck : a memoir / Robert MacNeil.  New York : Viking, 1989. vii, 230 pages : ports. ; 22 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PE64 M23 A3

The English language in Nova Scotia : essays on past and present developments in English across the province / Lilian Falk & Margaret Harry.  Lockeport : Roseway, 1998. viii, 237 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PE3241 A1 E53 1998

Pattison, Thomas

The Gaelic bards, and original poems / by Thomas Pattison. Ed., with biographical sketch and notes, by the Rev. John George Macneill .  2nd ed. Glasgow, A. Sinclair, 1890. xxviii, 278 pages : front. (port.) ; 19 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PB1695 P321

Maclennan, Malcolm

A pronouncing and etymological dictionary of the Gaelic language : Gaelic-English, English-Gaelic / by Malcolm Maclennan.  Stornoway, Scot. : Aberdeen : Acair ; Aberdeen University Press, 1979. xv, 613 pages ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PB1591 M161

Spine title: Gaelic dictionary. Reprint of the 1925 edition published by J. Grant, Edinburgh.

Gaelic language — Dictionaires — English.

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Macmillan, J.

Miller's Swinton's language lessons : an elementary grammar and composition / by J. Macmillan.  8th rev. ed. Toronto : W.J. Gage & Co., 1881. p.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - LTSw6

Adapted to the requirements of the public schools. Cf. NUC pe-1956 imprints, v. 353, pages 192.

Swinton, William, 1833-1892.

W.J. Gage and Company.

English language — Grammar
English language — Grammar — Juvenile literature
English language — Examinations, questions, etc.

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Sullivan, Robert

The spelling-book superseded, or, A new and easy method of teaching the spelling, meaning, pronunciation, and etymology of all difficult words in the English language : with exercises on verbal distinctions / by Robert Sullivan.  New ed. Halifax : A. & W. MacKinlay, 1871. 252 pages ; 15 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - LTSp3 Su5 1871

English language — Orthography and spelling
English language — Homonyms.

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