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The Canadian Oxford Dictionary is a dictionary of Canadian English. First published by Oxford University Press Canada in 1998, it became a well-known reference for Canadian English. The second edition, published in 2004, contains about 300,000 entries, including about 2,200 true Canadianisms .
List of Canadian English dictionaries: Canadian Oxford Dictionary ISBN 0195418166; Collins Canadian Dictionary ISBN 0007337523; A Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles ISBN 0771519761; Gage Canadian Dictionary ISBN 0771519818; Houghton Mifflin Canadian Dictionary ISBN 0395296544; ITP Nelson Canadian Dictionary ISBN 0176065911
The Beginner's Dictionary (1962), the Intermediate Dictionary (1964) and, finally, the Senior Dictionary (1967) were milestones in Canadian English lexicography. In November 1967 A Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles (DCHP) was published and completed the first edition of Gage's Dictionary of Canadian English Series.
The Gage Canadian DictionaryISBN 0771519818 is a dictionary for Canadian English published by Gage Publishers in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. [1] The dictionary contains over 140,000 entry words with definitions, International Phonetic Alphabet pronunciation key, homonyms and synonyms.
The result was a ground-breaking dictionary in several ways: the DCHP-1 was the first scholarly historical dictionary of a variety of English other than British English (Oxford English Dictionary) or American English (Dictionary of American English and A Dictionary of Americanisms), the two dominant varieties of English throughout the 20th century.
The Gage Canadian Dictionary was one of three school dictionaries in the Dictionary of Canadian English Series, which as of 1962 defined the lexicography of Canadian English. [1] The scholarly flagship dictionary in that series was the 1st edition of A Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles (Avis et al. 1967).
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Katherine Patricia Mary Barber (September 8, 1959 – April 24, 2021) was a British-born Canadian lexicographer and founding Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Oxford Dictionary. To promote the dictionary she often spoke publicly about Canadian words on radio and television, picking up the moniker "The Word Lady." [1]