Katherine Barber
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Katherine Patricia Mary Barber (born 1959) is a Canadian lexicographer and Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Oxford Dictionary.
Born in Ely, Cambridgeshire, England, she received a Bachelor of Arts degree University of Winnipeg in 1980 and a Master of Arts from the University of Ottawa in 1990.
From 1984 to 1991, she was a lecturer in the School of Translation & Interpretation at the University of Ottawa. From 1989 to 1991, she was a research associate with the Bilingual Canadian Dictionary at the University of Ottawa. In 1991, she was appointed editor-in-chief of Canadian Dictionaries for the Oxford University Press in Canada.
[edit] References
- Canadian Who's Who 1997 entry. Retrieved on February 23, 2006.
[edit] External links
- Meet our Canadian Lexicographers – at Oxford University Press Canada
- Tabaret Magazine University of Ottawa -Canadian English A Real Mouthful Canadian Food words.
