Canadian words and meanings
"In Canada, it's possible to find a man lounging on a chesterfield in his rented bachelor wearing only his gotchies while fortifying his Molson muscle with a jambuster washed down with slugs from a stubby.
But until Oxford University Press hired Katherine Barber as the founding editor of its Canadian dictionary in 1991, there was no authoritative reference work to decode Canadian words and meanings. (That sentence describes a man on a sofa in a studio apartment wearing only underwear while expanding his beer belly with a jelly doughnut and a squat brown beer bottle.)"
--From Ian Austen, "Katherine Barber, Who Defined Canadian English, Is Dead at 61 As the founding editor of the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, she turned to 'trashy novels' and parliamentary debates to find Canada’s version of the language," The New York Times (May 16, 2021)
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