Katherine Barber

Katherine Patricia Mary Barber (born 1959) is a Canadian lexicographer and was previously Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Oxford Dictionary.

Born in Ely, Cambridgeshire, England, she received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the 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 and Interpretation at the University of Ottawa. From 1989 to 1991, she was a research associate with the Bilingual Canadian Dictionary project at the University of Ottawa. She was Editor-in-Chief of Canadian Dictionaries for the Oxford University Press in Canada from 1991 to 2008, when OUP closed the Canadian dictionary department.^[1]

Other publications

• Katherine Barber (2006) Six Words You Never Knew Had Something to Do with Pigs and Other Fascinating Facts About the Language from Canada's Word Lady, Don Mills, Ontario: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195424409.
• Katherine Barber (2007) Only in Canada You Say: A Treasury of Canadian Language, Don Mills, Ontario: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195427073.

Notes

References

• "Canadian Who's Who 1997 entry". http://www.utpress.utoronto.ca/cgi-bin/cw2w3.cgi?p=banfield&t=42205&d=757. Retrieved February 23, 2006. 

External links

• Meet our Canadian Lexicographers – at Oxford University Press Canada
• Tabaret Magazine University of Ottawa – Canadian English A Real Mouthful Canadian Food words.