Revised and updated to capture new words and terminology related to changes in science, nature, technology, communications and the internet, music, food and much much more-More encyclopedic lists!...Features of the Revised and Updated Edition include: synonyms are clearly labeled as to parts of speech and ranked by popularity of use; loads of non-formal words and slang; richly geographic in its attribution of origins, whether the word was born in the Maritimes, the Prairies, the North, the West, the Pacific Coast, Quebec, France, Germany or elsewhere-the reader will know; highlights "Kinds of" and groups of words related to the initial keyword, a feature seldom found in similar reference works; crammed with Canadian references throughout. -- Publisher website.