The rapid evolution of maplewashing, itself, is a case in point for why a new Canadian dictionary is long overdue. The new ...

The entire staff of the Canadian Oxford Dictionary has been laid off because of declining sales. The Canadian branch of the Oxford University Press said it told two full-time and two part-time ...

"Just how far removed we had already become from Britain even in the nineteenth century was not well understood in the mother country," begins an essay at the beginning of the Canadian Oxford ...

Five years, five lexicographers working full time, and here it is – the new Canadian Oxford Dictionary, and it’s a treat. The editors sent along a challenge with the review package I received. “Does ...

The small team that put the Canuck into the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, along with thousands of other Canadianisms, has been sent to the pogey line. The team of four word experts has been laid off in ...

Katherine Barber, a lexicographer who served as founding editor in chief of the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, a tome that codified a long-neglected argot with definitive entries on such linguistic gems ...

Lexicographer Katherine Barber shared her love of words with Canadians, reminding and sometimes educating them about Canadianisms such as “Molson muscle,” “gotchies” and “jambuster.” (Meaning, ...

The entire staff of the "Canadian Oxford Dictionary" has been laid off because of declining sales, which the book's publisher attributes to the proliferation of free online dictionaries. The Canadian ...

The entire staff of the Canadian Oxford Dictionary has been laid off because of declining sales, which the book’s publisher attributes to the proliferation of free online dictionaries. The Canadian ...