Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles 2

Accessing DCHP-2

DCHP-2 is accessible at www.dchp.ca/dchp2.[1] It is, like the current edition of the OED, an online only publication; there is no hardcopy available at this point, though the editor-in-chief has been speculating about a crowd-funded production of a hard copy[2].

The Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles Second Edition (DCHP-2) is a historical dictionary of words, phrases, and expressions that are characteristic of Canadian English (CanE). The second edition was edited by Stefan Dollinger (editor-in-chief) and Margery Fee (associate editor) and includes new, distinctive features: a six-plus-one-tier classification system for Canadianisms[3], the Dictionary Editing Tool, and the creation of the Bank of Canadian English (BCE), a database being created as a by-product of the revision of the Dictionary.(Overview of DCHP-2)

Creating DCHP-2

The process started with the first edition of the dictionary (DCHP-1) being scanned and digitized using character recognition to serve as the base and to be amended.[4] The online version of DCHP-1 was made publicly accessible online in 2013.DCHP-1 Online Homepage DCHP-1 Online can be accessed here. The main data collection phase for the DCHP-2 lasted from 2007 to 2010 and included 36,000 new citations derived from the 7,000 new potential headwords found in digital databases such as:[5] Canadian Newsstand, The Globe and Mail, Early Canadiana Online, the Toronto Star, and LexisNexis Academic.[6] Potential headwords and citations are cross-checked with other varieties of English and entered into the Bank of Canadian English, a quotation filing system, to be proofread and edited. The potential headwords and citations would then be classified into one of the six types of Canadianisms according to their distinctive histories in Canada, cultural significance, or usage frequency.

Reception

While it is too early to assess DCHP-2's reception and lasting legacy (in specialist circles such reviews take 2-5 years to appear), public reception has been overwhelmingly good, perhaps even enthusiastic, since its launch on March 17th, 2017. The Toronto Star referred to it as a great "birth day gift for the nation" of Canada[7], The Globe and Mail[1] lauded its detail (e.g. the entry on eh, which is with almost 5000 words in length essay length) and the CBC The National Newscast[8] turned DCHP-2 in April 2017 as the topic of their cultural news item of the day.

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Notes

  1. 1 2 Valpy, Michael (10 March 2017). "Dictionary of Canadianisms is 'tabled' and 'all-dressed'". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 4 September 2017.
  2. ↑ Lacutusu, Octavian (1 September 2017). "Oak Bay resident revives grand dictionary of Canadianisms". Oak Bay News (Victoria, BC). Retrieved 4 September 2017.
  3. ↑ Dollinger, Stefan (2015). "How to write a historical dictionary: a sketch of The Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles, Second Edition". Retrieved 1 July 2017.
  4. ↑ Dollinger, Stefan. 2010. Software from the Bank of Canadian English as an open source tool for the dialectologist: ling.surf and its features. In Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary and Beyond: Studies in Late Modern English Dialectology, ed. by Manfred Markus, Clive Upton and Reinhard Heuberger, 249-261. Berne: Peter Lang.)
  5. ↑ https://www.academia.edu/5226026/A_new_historical_dictionary_of_Canadian_English_as_a_linguistic_database_tool._Or_making_a_virtue_out_of_necessity p. 104-5
  6. ↑ See Dollinger (2010)
  7. ↑ Toronto Star, Editorial Board (26 March 2017). "Dictionary of Canadianisms is a fine birthday gift to Canada: Editorial From "all-dressed" to "Garburator" - what Canadian English says about Canada". Retrieved 4 September 2017.
  8. ↑ Department of English, (see list of media coverage towards the end). "UBC". University of British Columbia. Retrieved 4 September 2017.

References

  • Dollinger, Stefan, Laurel J. Brinton, and Margery Fee. "Revising The Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles: A Progress Report, 2006—(April) 2012." Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America 33. (2012): 164-178. Print.
  • Dollinger, Stefan. 2017. Revising the Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles: World Englishes and linguistic variation in real-time. In The Routledge Handbook of Lexicography, ed. by Pedro A. Fuertes Olivera (in the section on "Innovative Online Dictionaries), 367-382. London Routledge.
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