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The Canadian Oxford Paperback Dictionary

edited by Alex Bisset

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Initial publish date
May 2000
Category
Dictionaries
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780195414530
    Publish Date
    May 2000
    List Price
    $22.95

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Description

Based on the critically acclaimed best-selling Canadian Oxford Dictionary, The Canadian Oxford Paperback Dictionary is the essential dictionary for everyday use, offering all the authority of Oxford's flagship Canadian dictionary in a handy and affordable paperback format. With 80,000entries, it features over 1,800 uniquely Canadian words and senses. Definitions, worded for ease of comprehension, are presented so the meaning most familiar to Canadians appears first and foremost. Each of these entries is exceptionally reliable, the result of thorough research into the languageusing Oxford's unparallelled language resources. It fully utilizes the research conducted to compile The Canadian Oxford Dictionary, for which five professionally trained lexicographers spent five years examining databases containing over 20 million words of Canadian text from more than 8,000Canadian sources of an astonishing diversity. This research also included an examination of an additional 20 million words of international English sources. Using The Canadian Oxford Dictionary's continually updated databases, this new reference work features over 100 new words that did not appear in the original, including broccoflower, burn (copy data onto a compact disc), day trader, e-zine, graduated licensing, Gulf War syndrome, Interac, Pilates,point-and-shoot, puck bunny, qigong, Saskatchewan Party, snakehead, split-run, stadium seating, Viagra, wakeboard, Y2K, zero-emission, and Zyban. Designed to be concise, yet fulfill users everyday reference needs, The Canadian Oxford Paperback Dictionary offers Canadians the essential vocabulary for everyday use.

About the author

Contributor Notes

Originally from the Stratford, Forest, and Goderich area, Alex Bisset is a graduate of Wilfrid Laurier University, and the University of Toronto. He joined The Canadian Oxford Dictionary project in January 1993, just before editing of the letter A began. In July of 1995 he was promoted toSenior Lexicographer of the Canadian Oxford Dictionary team. In March of 1997 Alex began working on the Canadian Oxford Paperback Dictionary.

Editorial Reviews

...this is a superb, abridged version of the recently published Canadian Oxford Dictionary.Niagara Falls Review