For instance, the compound noun bush lot, first attested in a New York publication in 1832 but now used mostly by Canadians, means a plot of wooded or uncleared land, especially on a farm while bush party, first attested in 1962 and also familiar in Australia and New Zealand, is used by Canadians to refer to an outdoor party in a wooded area or other remote location, typically held by young people and often involving heavy drinking. A number of these new additions are compounds-distinctive combinations of ordinary English words that are uniquely or chiefly used in Canada. The ODP’s research identified several words of characteristic Canadian usage, which have now made their way into the OED for the first time in this update. The project offers the OED unique insight into the language of one of the world’s largest English-speaking nations.” Professor Sali Tagliamonte of the University of Toronto heads the project, which she describes as “a huge vernacular resource in Canada, a gold mine of linguistic, cultural and historical materials.” She also remarks, “The way people may talk in small Ontario communities would slip through the cracks unless documented in a project like the ODP.
The project’s Ontario Dialect Archive now contains over 11 million words of data coming from sociolinguistic interviews with locals, along with diachronic materials mostly collected in local genealogy projects.
#Canadian lingo update
This month’s update sees the publication of a number of new words from Canada, the first results of an ongoing collaboration between the OED and the Ontario Dialects Project (ODP), which since 2002 has been documenting the dialects of Ontario, Canada, by collecting linguistic data from Toronto, the urban centre of Ontario and the largest city in Canada, as well as from many smaller communities across the province. The Ontario Dialects Project and Canadian English in the OED
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