The Canadian Oxford Dictionary, published by the Oxford University Press Canada, was first released in 1998 and quickly became the standard dictionary reference for Canadian English. Oxford maintains a permanent staff of lexicographers in Canada, led by editor Katherine Barber. Oxford University Press (OUP) is a highly-respected publishing house and a department of the University of Oxford in England. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Canadian English (CaE) is the national variety of English used in Canada. ... A lexicographer is a person devoted to the study of lexicography, especially an author of a dictionary. ... Katherine Patricia Mary Barber (born 1959) is a Canadian lexicographer and Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Oxford Dictionary. ...

The Canadian Oxford Dictionary second edition contains 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 spellings (colour, centre, and travelling, but: tire, aluminum, and program). The second, updated edition of the dictionary was published in 2004.

It is used by most major Canadian newspapers, publishing houses and the government of Canada. The influential Canadian Press Stylebook follows the Canadian Oxford Dictionary. The dictionary was a publishing success, staying on Canadian bestseller lists for over a year, something quite unusual for a reference book. The Canadian Press (CP) is a Canadian news agency established in 1917 as a vehicle to permit Canadian newspapers of the day to exchange their news and information. ... A dictionary is a list of words with their definitions, a list of characters with their glyphs, or a list of words with corresponding words in other languages. ...

Two other major Canadian English dictionaries are the ITP Nelson Canadian Dictionary and the Gage Canadian Dictionary.

References

• Katherine Barber, editor (2004). The Canadian Oxford Dictionary, second edition. Toronto, Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-541816-6.

Other editions (most of these are based on the first edition, or out-of-print):

• The Canadian Oxford Paperback Dictionary (published 2000, reissued 2004)
• The Canadian Oxford Compact Dictionary (published 2001, reissued 2004)
• The Canadian Oxford High School Dictionary (published 2002, reissued 2004)
• The Canadian Oxford Spelling Dictionary (published 1999, reissued 2004)
• Concise Canadian Oxford Dictionary (published 2005)
• The Canadian Oxford Picture Dictionary
• The Canadian Oxford Picture Dictionary English-French
• My First Canadian Oxford Dictionary

External links

• Information about the Canadian Oxford Dictionary on Oxford University Press's website