Katherine Barber, a lexicographer who served as founding editor in chief of the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, a tome that codified a long-neglected argot with definitive entries on such linguistic gems ...

Excerpted from Chasing a Dream: The Carl English Story, this chapter follows the story of English’s NBA draft-night disappointment after leaving the University of Hawaii in 2003. WHEN TALK STARTED ...

University of Rochester linguist Andrew Bray started out studying the evolution of the trademark sports jargon used in hockey for his master's thesis. For instance, a hockey arena is a "barn," while ...

Derek Denis, an associate professor of linguistics at the University of Toronto, is in the Yukon listening to how people talk. It's part of an ongoing research project to better understand and ...

In January, Brent Wallace was still sorting through some of the leftover anxiety from the previous year, when TSN included his salary in a wave of budget cuts. He had been the network’s Ottawa-based ...

All your favourite Canadianisms—and 137 new ones—just got easier to find, right in time for Canada Day. The UBC editors of the Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles have released an ...

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Hockey players are famous for their distinctive jargon, but while researching this phenomenon, a linguist and hockey player realized another interesting pattern in hockey speech: American hockey ...

As Canada’s language sector begins to recover from the pandemic, it faces a new challenge – a shortage of English-language teachers. In its annual report, Languages Canada said that about one in five ...

To live in Quebec is to become accustomed to daily reminders that French in the Canadian province is the most regulated language in the world. Try, as I did recently, to shop at Anthropologie online ...

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