The foremost authority on current Canadian English.
The Canadian Oxford Dictionary was the runaway bestseller of
1998, spending over a year on the Globe and Mail's bestseller list and winning
the Canadian Booksellers Association's Libris awards for Non-fiction Book
of the Year and Specialty Book of the Year. Now this wonderful resource is
being reissued with a New Words supplement and a History of the English Language
Timeline. The dictionary's 130,000 entries combine in one reference book information
on English as it is used worldwide and as it is used particularly in Canada.
Definitions, worded for ease of comprehension, are presented so that the meaning
most familiar to Canadians appears first and foremost. Each of these entries
is exceptionally reliable, the result of thorough research into the language
and Oxford's unparalleled language resources. Five professionally trained
lexicographers spent five years examining databases containing over 20 million
words of Canadian text from more than 8,000 Canadian sources of an astonishing
diversity. The lexicographers also examined an additional 20 million words
of international English sources.
For this reissue, Oxford University Press's Canadian Dictionary
Department prepared a New Words supplement, featuring over 150 words and meanings
of words that have become prominent since 1998. Featuring up-to-the-minute
vocabulary, the supplement includes Ballard fuel cell, BC Bud, bricks and
mortar, dot-commer, e-ticket, face time, IMHO, my bad, Nunavummiut, oxygen
bar, Quebec gold, shrug, 24-7, and yada-yada-yada. Indeed, there is at least
one new word for every letter of the alphabet.
