We're happy to announce that the Third Edition of the Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles was published on 15 May 2025. You can find the new edition, DCHP-3, online at:
http://dchp.ca/dchp3
(The older editions can be accessed at http://dchp.ca/dchp2 and http://dchp.ca/dchp1).

The Third Edition is a major technical upgrade and a more minor editorial update.

We’ve added 136 terms and 187 new meanings of Canadianisms to this edition, many of which are mentioned in the introduction (https://dchp.arts.ubc.ca/about). A Canadianism is "a word, expression, or meaning which is native to [what is now] Canada or which is distinctively characteristic of Canadian usage though not necessarily exclusive to Canada" (Walter S. Avis 1967). DCHP-3 is therefore a comparative project in a pluricentric framework. It would have been easy to add more terms, but it’s always better to have a non-comprehensive published historical dictionary than an unpublished comprehensive one.

In total DCHP-3 lists more than 15,000 meanings for more than 12,000 lexemes.

As exciting as completing DCHP-3 is our close cooperation with the new Canadian English Dictionary (https://canadianenglishdictionary.ca), under the editorship of John Chew, which is to be expected by 2028.

We hope you’ll find DCHP-3, in its mobile-friendly (fast!) guise, stimulating in your deliberations about the idea of Canada and its reflection in Canadian English in particular and in language more generally.

We welcome review and critique, including in peer-reviewed publications.

Stefan Dollinger & Margery Fee (editors)

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Historical Linguistics
Lexicography

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Language Family(ies): Germanic