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A Typology of Canadianisms

How to Use DCHP-3 The basic principles of entry structure remain the same as in DCHP-2 (see here), though the appearance is quite different. A Typology of Canadianisms While this dictionary lists entries (headwords, lexemes), meanings are its smallest unit.

New additions to this category include quadrex ‘a four-plex’, which is influenced by Quebec French and used to refer to other entities, soaker ‘a wet foot’ rather than just an alcoholic (US English)’ or social ‘wedding party’, which is common in Manitoba today. We used that criterion to declare chirp, goal suck, heat dome, klick, rig pig, substance use and quilling(meaning #2) Canadian, often in contrast to US English, in which case we insisted on a difference of several multiples of frequency in Canada compared to the US. Aboriginal (e.g. adhesion, treaty band) Aboriginal (Inuit) (e.g. amautik, qulliq) Administration (e.g. BC Day, blood donor clinic) Agriculture (e.g. canola, trash cover, supply management) Automotive (e.g. advanced green, parkade) Canada-US relations(e.g. Roxham Road, snowbird, maplewashing(meaning #3)) Canadian Football (e.g. designated import, rouge ((v.))) Climate change(e.g. atmospheric river, heat dome, zombie fire) Clothing (e.g. bunny hug, Canadian tuxedo) Colonialism(e.g. pretendian, settler-colonial violence) Construction (e.g. ardox nail, wafer board) Curling (e.g. centre ice) Digital life(e.g. enshittification, ding(meaning #1)) Economy (e.g. branch plant, corporate welfare bum) Education (e.g. bird course, semestering) Entertainment (e.g. CanCon, Brollywood) Ethnicities (e.g. Canadian-born Chinese, visible minority) Fauna (e.g. Boston bluefish, snowbird(meanings #3 & #4)) Federalism(e.g. Roxham Road, white paper) Finance (e.g. ABM, download (meaning #1)) First Nations (e.g. Bill C-31, status) Fishing (e.g. barge, cod moratorium) Flora (e.g. arbutus, partridgeberry (meanings #1a, #1b)) Food or Food & Drink (e.g. brown cow, chocolate bar) Forestry (e.g. cork boot, tenas (meaning #2)) French relations (e.g. bi and bi, tongue trooper) Fur trade (e.g. canot du nord, country wife) Games (e.g. Chinese skipping, padiddle, lahal, levidrome) Geography (e.g. down south, north of 60) Healthcare(e.g. in hospital, wait time) Hiphop(e.g. 6ix, T-dot) Hockey (e.g. muck up, Timbits (meaning #2)) Housing (e.g. bachelor apartment, laneway house) Immigration(e.g. Roxham Road, landed immigrant) Indigenous(e.g. Indigenous identity fraud, knowledge keeper) Indigenous resistance(e.g. Red Paper, skoden) Inuit(e.g. qalunaaq, igloo) Industry (e.g. branch plant, Robertson screw) Interprovincial relations(e.g. Churchill Falls, supply management) Law (e.g. skill-testing question, renovict) Media(e.g. in hospital, caremongering) Military (e.g. khaki, Poppy Day) Mining (e.g. catskinner, rig pig) Outdoors (e.g. serviced, swamp donkey) Politics (e.g. bear-pit session, the two Michaels) Ranching (e.g. Texas gate, rodeo) Reconciliation(e.g. pretendian, Idle No More) Science (e.g. Standard Time, wind chill) Social customs (e.g. kitchen racket, May Two Four, stagette, trick or treat) Sports (e.g. Big O, tube skate) Student slang(e.g. bzzr, bird course) Systemic discrimination(e.g. fruit machine, Saskatoon freezing deaths) Trades(e.g. leadhand, rig pig) Transportation (e.g. seat sale, klick) Urban culture (e.g. substance use, off-sale) Weather(e.g. heat dome, poudrerie)

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