Canadian Oxford Dictionary
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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. It also provides information on Canadian pronunciation and on Canadian spelling, which has features of both British and American spelling: colour, centre, and travelling, but tire, aluminum, and realize, resulting in combinations such as {{linktext|colourize}}.
Editorial staff and development method
Until September 2008, Oxford maintained a permanent staff of lexicographers in Canada, led by editor Katherine Barber. With its Canadian dictionary division closed, Oxford has since been outsourcing work on Canadian dictionary products to freelance editors.Canwest News Service, "[https://archive.today/20120723065549/http://www.canada.com/components/print.aspx?id=c74519ed-c8d5-4312-869b-af7508dd65cc Oxford closes Canadian dictionary division]", October 1, 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-01.
Editions and versions
- {{Cite book | editor-last = Barber | editor-first = Katherine | editor-link = Katherine Barber | title = Canadian Oxford Dictionary | place = Don Mills, Ontario | publisher = Oxford University Press | year = 2005 | edition = 2nd | isbn = 978-0-19-541816-3}}
;Prior editions
- {{Cite book
|title=The Canadian Oxford Dictionary
|publisher=Oxford University Press
|place=Don Mills, Ontario
|year=2002
|edition=
|isbn=978-0-19-541731-9
|editor-last=Barber |editor-first=Katherine}}
- {{Cite book
|title=The Canadian Oxford Dictionary
|publisher=Oxford University Press
|place=Don Mills, Ontario
|year=1998
|edition=
|isbn=978-0-19-541120-1
|editor-last=Barber
|editor-first=Katherine
|url-access=registration
|url=https://archive.org/details/canadianoxforddi00barb
}}
;Picture dictionary
- {{Cite book
|title=Oxford Picture Dictionary, Second Canadian Edition
|publisher=Oxford University Press
|place=Don Mills, Ontario
|year=2010
|edition=Monolingual, 2nd
|isbn=978-0-19-543809-3
|editor-first1=Jayme |editor-last1=Adelson-Goldstein
|editor-first2=Norma |editor-last2=Shapiro }}
- {{Cite book
|title=The Canadian Oxford Picture Dictionary
|publisher=Oxford University Press
|place=Don Mills, Ontario
|year=2004
|edition=
|isbn=978-0-19-435207-9
|editor-last1=Parnwell |editor-first1=E.C. |editor-link=
|editor-last2=Grennan |editor-first2=Maggie }}
- {{Cite book
|title=The Canadian Oxford Picture Dictionary
|publisher=Oxford University Press
|place=Don Mills, Ontario
|year=2001
|edition=
|isbn=978-0-19-435204-8
|editor-last1=Parnwell |editor-first1=E.C. |editor-link=
|editor-last2=Grennan |editor-first2=Maggie }}
;Paperback
- Alex Bisset, editor. The Canadian Oxford Paperback Dictionary (first edition 2000, reissued 2004, second edition 2006) Toronto, Oxford University Press.
;Compact
- The Canadian Oxford Compact Dictionary (published 2001, reissued 2004)
;Concise
- Concise Canadian Oxford Dictionary (published 2005)
;High school
- The Canadian Oxford High School Dictionary (published 2002, reissued 2004)
;Spelling
- The Canadian Oxford Spelling Dictionary (published 1999, reissued 2004)
;Juvenile
- My First Canadian Oxford Dictionary
Other Canadian English dictionaries
Two other major Canadian English dictionaries are the ITP Nelson Canadian Dictionary and the Gage Canadian Dictionary.
See also
References
External links
{{Wiktionary|CanOD}}
- {{cite web|title=Canadian Oxford Dictionaries |url=http://www.oupcanada.com/reference_trade/canadian_oxford_dictionaries.html |work=OUPCanada.com |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2010}}
- {{cite web|title=Canadian Oxford Dictionary (2 ed.) Online |url=http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195418163.001.0001/acref-9780195418163 |work=OxfordReference.com |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2012}}
{{Dictionaries of English}}
Category:English language in Canada