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Mornings with Simi: There's now a dictionary for Canadian-isms!
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Fascinating.

The current Third Edition of A Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles, DCHP-3, is the latest reiteration of a Canadian linguistics project that turned, sometime in the early 1960s, into a Canadian Centennial Project.

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Wäre das etwas für @ritschl.bsky.social? Mit Grüßen aus dem nahegelegenen westlichen Kanada.

Life's short. Cliff notes: Charles J Lovell (American, orphan, autodidact) & Prof. Walter S Avis joined forces to document Cdn English. Prof. Harry Scargill (ling), Doug Leechman (anthro) & youngling Paddy Drysdale helped, as did Chuck Crate. The latter was a 1930s fascist leader (recent discovery)

Ergebnisse gibt's dann Ende des Jahres. Wir sammeln bis Ende September -- bitte gerne auch den Link weitergeben: wir wollen wirklich so genau wie möglich wissen, was die Leute vom Österreichische Deutsch halten. Von der Tante Zenzi aus Rust, übern JJ, bis zum Neffen 2. Grades aus dem Montafon!

Für Leute in (speziell auch mit Migrartionshintergrund) und aus Österreich: Eine Studie undersucht die Einstellung von Menschen zum Österreichischen Deutsch. Das Ausfüllen dauert etwa 10 Minuten. Bitte mitmachen!

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Thanks for sharing! Our soft launch will turn into a "harder" launch around Canada Day (1 July).

Thank you, @joshuajfriedman.com. The bulk of the praise must go to the "Big Six", the six people who, in the 1950s, thought that there might be something Canadian about the English of Canada.

Thank you, Jesse. We appreciate your kind words very much.

Sneak peek #1 on the Third Edition of the Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles, fothcoming in June 2025. "In hospital" and its Canadian dimension. Full entry here: dchp.arts.ubc.ca/entries/in%2...
Comments welcome!

Wenn seinesgleichen einmal nicht geschieht, freut man sich sehr mit Thurnher (A.und C., weder verwandt noch verschwägert - findet man auch nur beim Falter), Hund und Katz, Kuntz und Klenk, Leben und Tóth. Ende gut alles gut. Wir freun uns auf die Zuckerln!

SPÖ, ÖVP, Babler, Stocker, Regierung, Koalition, Österreich

Austrian Word of the Week 65 is "Kompromiss" — compromise. Carefully crafted after WW2, K. is the ability to know the other & respect their limits. The world needs more "Kompromiss" these days, so let it blossom in & spread from AUT. @bundespraesident.at rightly called it a"cultural treasure".

Felicitari pentru promovare.

Today restricted to "political domain". :-)

Austrian Word of the Week number 64 (#AutWrdoWk) is "Pouvoir". Of old imperial stock it represents the multilingual character of Standard Austrian German. Try looking for it in present-day texts from Germany. Good luck, @spoe.at, @oevpwien.bsky.social, @neos.eu und @gruenewien.bsky.social! Godspeed!

@rauschermri.bsky.social summarizes the "succus".

Als Denglisch-Lehnwort des Jahres 2025 sicher, aber nicht als Hebräisch-Wort aus der Zeit der Entlehnungen von Dschungel und Streik. :-) Aber: kommt das von Hebräisch "sukkoth"? Würde erklären warum nur im Österreichischen (Hoch)Deutsch vorkommend.

Austrian Word of the Week 63 is a beauty: Sukkus, der (formal in Standard AutG for 'essence'). As in the attached passage from today's @derstandard.at: der Sukkus der FPÖ ist: alles ganz normal. Mitnichten! Nothing is normal with a postfascist party vying for head of government. Fire in the roof!

Make Bread not War. What is the felon president were to announce Bread for all not Tariffs at will? One trick pony, that man

Congratulations. That's huge!

Voordrachter är bäst!

True. Keep in mind: they "Saujud" (swine + Jew) to channel their anger, now they use "criminal immigrants". You know what happened next with six million Jews. Why go there at all, America? Demob you language as a first step. Immigrants are not criminals. POTUS, however, is a convicted felon. Fact!

Österreichisches Deutsch oder Deutsch in Österreich? Identitäten im 21. Jahrhundert (new academic press, 2021). He is chief editor of the CED-sister project Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles (DCHP-3 forthcoming 2025; DCHP-2 2017; dchp.ca/dchp2) [2/2]

Thank you, thank you. *I* should rather showcase CED (Canadian English Dictionary), since it is probably the most exciting project in Canadian linguistics this side of the millennium for the next half century. Language historians think à la longue durée, n'est-ce pas?

Thank you, thank you. *I* should rather showcase CED (Canadian English Dictionary), since it is probably the most exciting project in Canadian linguistics this side of the millennium for the next half century. Language historians think à la longue durée, n'est-ce pas?

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In Canada it's not based on the lending process as such, but on libraries stocking a given book. Once in, they pay for 25 years a decreasing amount (starting at $80 a year, down to $20 or so in its final years).

True for Canada, but only for non-academic books. They used to include these too, but not anymore.

Red, dark grey, and light grey graphic with the following words: Prefixes, super, tele-, pre-, auto-, non-, mis-, dis-, extra-, un-, hyper-, inter-, over-, anti-.

Prefixes are fascinating! They are added on to the beginning of a word to create an entirely new word. Sometimes this new word means the exact opposite of the original. Think of the prefix im-. Add it to words like possible, plausible, or perfect and their meanings become the exact opposite.

Fill Me In: Fill Me In #476: Linguistic chaos gremlins. This week, Ben Zimmer joins Brian in the FMI studio for a thorough recap of the 2024 Word of the Year! Also: NYT games, the ORCAs, a little known fact about Russian poetry, and a Brian Wecht sighting!...

On the latest episode of the crossword podcast @fillmeinpodcast.bsky.social, @cimmet.bsky.social and I talk about @americandialect.org's Word of the Year shenanigans and other silly stuff. bemoresmarter.libsyn.com/fill-me-in-4...