Publisher's Synopsis
With 80,000 entries, this dictionary features over 1800 uniquely Canadian words and senses. Definitions, worded for ease of comprehension, are presented so the meaning most familiar to Canadians appears first. Each of these entries can be thought of as reliable, the result of thorough research into the language using Oxford's 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 8000 Canadian sources. 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, gigong, Saskatchewan Party, snakehead, split-run, stadium seating, Viagra, wakeboard, Y2K, zero-emission, and Zyban.
