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The Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles (DCHP) was published in 1967 in Canada's Centennial Year and was the first scholarly, historical dictionary on a non-dominant (Clyne 1992) variety of English. As such, the editors, Walter S. Avis (ed.-in-chief), Charles Crate, Patrick Drysdale, Douglas Leechman, Matthew H. Scargill and Charles J. Lovell, tread new ground in the field of historical lexicography.
While basing their work on the principles established by the Oxford English Dictionary (which in turn relied on some principles from Samuel Johnsons's 1755 dictionary and scholarly dictionaries of other languages, above all the Grimm brother's Deutsches Woerterbuch), the editors contributed a definition of an "-ism" that is now found in other historical dictonaries of non-dominant English varieties, such as Ramson et al. (1988) for Australian English, Silva et al. (1996) for South African English, and Orsman (1997) for New Zealand English; other historical dictionaries of regional varietes such as the Dictionary of Newfoundland English or the Dictionary of Prince Edward Island English always built from that base laid in the 1967 DCHP edition (DCHP-1).
Since 2006, the DCHP, which has not been updated in 40 years, is undergoing an extensive revision and update. This project, the DCHP-2 project (www.dchp.ca), is based in Vancouver at the University of British Columbia and aims to completely revise and update the DCHP-1 by 2013 (Dollinger 2006). This means that the ongoing revision of the Oxford English Dictionary (www.oed.com, whose revision started with the letter M in 2000, see Simpson (ed.) 2000) will be aided by the project on Canadian English in important ways, increasing the coverage and scope of English in North-America, with a pronounced focus on the much short-shrifted national variety of Canadian English (Brinton and Fee 2001) - a focus in its historical development.
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Avis, Walter S. (ed.-in-chief), C. Crate, P. Drysdale, D. Leechman, M. H. Scargill, and C. J. Lovell (eds.). 1967. Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles. Toronto: Gage.
Algeo, John (ed.). 2001. The Cambridge History of the English Language. Vol. 6: English in North America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Brinton, Laurel J. and Margery Fee. 2001. “Canadian English”. – in: Algeo, 422-440.
Dollinger, Stefan. 2006. “Towards a fully revised and extended edition of the Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles (DCHP-2): Background, challenges, prospects”. HSL/SHL - Historical Sociolinguistics/Sociohistorical Linguistics (Leiden, NL). 6. http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/hsl_shl/DCHP-2.htm (1 September 2006).
Orsman, H. W. (ed.). 1997. Dictionary of New Zealand English: A Dictionary of New Zealandisms on Historical Principles. Aukland: Oxford University Press.
Pratt, T. K. (ed.). 1988. Dictionary of Prince Edward Island English. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Ramson, W. S. et al. (eds.). 1988. Australian National Dictionary. A Dictionary of Australianisms on Historical Principles. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
Silva, Penny et al. (eds.). 1996. A Dictionary of South African English on Historical Principles. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Simpson, John (ed.). 32000-. Oxford English Dictionary. 3rd ed. online. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Story, G. M., W. J. Kirwin, and J. D. A. Widdowson (eds.) 21990. 11982. Dictionary of Newfoundland English. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. http://www.heritage.nf.ca/dictionary/ (30 Sept. 2006).
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