Editing Canadian English (section)

== Standardization, codification and dictionaries ==
The first series of dictionaries of Canadian English was published by [[Gage Educational Publishing Company|Gage]] Ltd. under the chief-editorships of [[Charles J. Lovell (lexicographer)|Charles J. Lovell]] and Walter S. Avis as of 1960 and the "[[Big Six (Canadian English)|Big Six]]"<ref name=":3" /> editors plus [[Faith Avis]]. The ''Beginner's Dictionary'' (1962), the ''Intermediate Dictionary'' (1964) and, finally, the ''Senior Dictionary'' (1967) were milestones in Canadian English lexicography. In November 1967 [[A Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles]] (DCHP) was published and completed the first edition of Gage's Dictionary of Canadian English Series. The DCHP documents the historical development of Canadian English words that can be classified as "Canadianisms". It therefore includes words such as mukluk, Canuck, and bluff, but does not list common core words such as desk, table or car. Many secondary schools in Canada use the graded dictionaries. The dictionaries have regularly been updated since: the ''Senior Dictionary,'' edited by [[Robert John Gregg]],<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.academia.edu/35184221|title=Creating Canadian English: the Professor, the Mountaineer, and a National Variety of English|last=Dollinger|first=Stefan|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2019|page=26|access-date=11 April 2023|archive-date=5 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230405050418/https://www.academia.edu/35184221|url-status=live}}</ref> was renamed ''Gage Canadian Dictionary''. Its fifth edition was printed beginning in 1997. Gage was acquired by Thomson Nelson around 2003. The latest editions were published in 2009 by [[HarperCollins]]. On 17 March 2017 a second edition of DCHP, the online [[Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles 2]] (DCHP-2), was published. DCHP-2 incorporates the c. 10 000 lexemes from DCHP-1 and adds c. 1 300 novel meanings or 1 002 lexemes to the documented lexicon of Canadian English.

In 1998, Oxford University Press produced a Canadian English dictionary, after five years of lexicographical research, entitled ''The Oxford Canadian Dictionary''. A second edition, retitled ''The Canadian Oxford Dictionary'', was published in 2004. Just as the older dictionaries it includes uniquely Canadian words and words borrowed from other languages, and surveyed spellings, such as whether ''colour'' or ''color'' was the more popular choice in common use. Paperback and concise versions (2005, 2006), with minor updates, are available.

Since 2022,{{citation needed|date=November 2024}} the Editors' Association of Canada has been leading the writing of a new ''Canadian English Dictionary'' within a national dictionary Consortium. The Consortium comprises the Editors' Association of Canada, the [[University of British Columbia|UBC]] Canadian English Lab, and [[Queen's University at Kingston|Queen's University]]'s Strategy Language Unit.<ref>{{cite web |title=About the CED |url=https://canadianenglishdictionary.ca/about.html |publisher=Canadian English Dictionary |access-date=1 November 2024}}</ref>