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22-787: [REDACTED] Look up dchp in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. DCHP may refer to: A Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles Dicyclohexyl phthalate, a phthalate Chemnitz-Hilbersdorf rail station (station code DCHP ), Saxony, Germany; see List of railway stations in Chemnitz See also [ edit ] [REDACTED] Search for "DCHP" , "DC-HP" , "D-CH-P" , "D-CHP" , or "DCH-P" on Misplaced Pages. DHCP (disambiguation) All pages with titles beginning with DCHP All pages with titles containing DCHP Topics referred to by

44-595: A B.A. in journalism from Carleton in Ottawa in 1946. Faith was, at that time, was one of the most highly educated women in Canada. Avis received a B.A. in 1949 at Queen's University . He received an M.A. in 1950 also from Queen's University. He completed work on and earned his PhD in 1955 from the University of Michigan . From 1952 to his death in 1979, Avis was professor of English at Royal Military College , Kingston, Ontario. He

66-588: A great "birthday gift for the nation" of Canada, The Globe and Mail lauded its detail (e.g. the entry on eh , which is almost 5000 words long) and the CBC The National Newscast featured DCHP-2 in April 2017 as the topic of its cultural news item of the day. Walter Spencer Avis Walter Spencer Avis was one of the foremost Canadian linguists of his day. Throughout the 1950s to his death at age 60, Avis' mission has been described as "plant[ing] into

88-407: Is available as a free website, DCHP -1 Online. DCHP -2 , fully revised and expanded, is published 2017 (thanks to a three-year SSHRC Insight Grant, Competition 2012, Insight Grants). DCHP-2, the second, reconceptualized and updated edition was released online on 17 March 2017. The launch coincided with the 57th anniversary of Charles J. Lovell's passing, the founding editor of DCHP-1. DCHP-1

110-430: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages A Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles A second edition of A Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles (DCHP-2), was then created by expanding and partially revising the first edition's data set. DCHP-2 was published in 2017 as an academic project by the University of British Columbia , and

132-456: Is only available as a free-access online dictionary. The origins of the first Canadian Dictionary (DCHP-1) can be linked to American Lexicographer Charles Julien Lovell just after WW2 in 1946. Predating this, the American OED dictionary engulfed the small amount of Canadian words found in their research as was the practice during this time for larger varieties. Lovell, working at the time for

154-491: The University of British Columbia 's Department of English in August 2006, after a year of preparatory work. Since 2009, DCHP-2 has had no association with Nelson Ltd. or any other publisher and had been a purely academic project. The second edition was edited by Stefan Dollinger (editor-in-chief) and Margery Fee (associate editor) and includes features not part of the first edition: a six-way classification system for Canadianisms,

176-577: The Complete version DCHP-1.   Through laborious hours and turmoil, the team rolled out the final dictionary just in time for Canadians' momentous Centennial year In November 1967. The result was a ground-breaking dictionary in several ways: the DCHP -1 was the first scholarly historical dictionary of a variety of English other than British English ( Oxford English Dictionary ) or American English ( Dictionary of American English and A Dictionary of Americanisms ),

198-620: The DCHP-2 lasted from 2007 to 2010 and included 36,000 new citations derived from the 7,000 new potential headwords found in The Canadian Oxford Dictionary and other sources. Potential headwords and citations were cross-checked with other varieties of English using web data and entered into the Bank of Canadian English, a quotation filing system, to be proofread and edited. The potential headwords and citations were then classified into one of

220-601: The Dictionary Editing Tool, and the Bank of Canadian English (BCE), a quotation database. DCHP-2 was published in 2017 as an academic project by the University of British Columbia, and is only available as a free-access online dictionary. Completed in 2011 after automatic scanning and manual proofreading by a team of UBC students under the direction of Stefan Dollinger, DCHP -1 was republished in open access as of 2013, thanks to Nelson Ltd. (Dollinger et al. 2013), and

242-621: The Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario. Without intention, Avis, came to become a dictionary editor and leader to complete DHCP-1. Along with him, Patrick Drysdale, Chuck Crate , Douglas Leechman, and Mathew Scargill (these names, with Avis and Lovell would become known as the big six of creating Canadian English). Drysdale focused on working with the publisher of the dictionary in Toronto, W.J. Gage publishing and relayed information to

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264-572: The University of Chicago and the Dictionary of Americanisms , felt that there was a true distinction between American words and Canadian ones. This led Lovell to create a separate file for words that he deemed to be Canadian as he traversed across the country. In 1954, after creation of the Canadian Linguistic Association , Lovell proposed his idea of the creation of the first Canadian Dictionary, and shortly after submitted an article on

286-506: The catchword, which would then possibly become a headword in the dictionary, which a quotation would follow. Thousands to millions of these slips provided the data from which the dictionary was created. The DCHP-2 lists six types of Canadianism with an additional "non-Canadian" category: The DCHP-2 is, like the current edition of the OED , an online-only publication; there is no hardcopy available at this point. The Toronto Star referred to it as

308-558: The first generation of PhD-level trained linguists in Canada. He published as of 1950 in the areas of historical linguistics, dialectology, linguistic variation, Canadian English and the budding field of sociolinguistics. Avis served with the Canadian Forces in Italy during the latter part oh World War II. Upon bis return to Canada, Avis finished bis matriculation (high school degree), while his wife Faith Avis (née Hutchison) had acquired

330-545: The minds of his compatriots the notion of Canadian English (CanE) as related but different from other "Englishes"." In that sense, Avis was an early proponent of World Englishes , by looking at non-dominant standard forms, with Standard Canadian English in focus, in what would later be called a pluricentric model. Avis was the editor-in-chief of the first edition of the Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles . Born in Toronto in 1919, Avis belonged to

352-405: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title DCHP . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=DCHP&oldid=1176286007 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

374-474: The six categories of Canadianisms according to their distinctive histories in Canada, cultural significance, or usage frequency. The use of slips while writing DCHP-2 played a significant role in the dictionary's creation. Slips are considered “the sine qua non of lexicography” (Dollinger, 2019, p. 90) and can be hand-written, typed, or cut and pasted texts from newspapers, fliers, books, etc., on four-by-six inch slips of paper. The top left corner would show

396-568: The team. Avis , Crate, And Leechman were responsible for controlling the majority of the information brought in through slips. Scargill, the “director of the Lexicographical Centre in Victoria'' was the promoter and organizer of the DCHP. The Publisher, Gage, requested that four versions of the dictionary were to be made. The Beginning Dictionary, Intermediate Dictionary, Senior Dictionary, and

418-565: The two dominant varieties of English throughout the 20th century. In 2006, after almost 40 years of existence without any updates, work on a new edition was started. Nelson Education Ltd., which had acquired Gage Ltd. and with it the rights to the DCHP-1 had been actively seeking collaborators in academia to produce a new edition of the DCHP-1. This project, DCHP-2, was proposed at a conference on Canadian English in January 2005, and formally commenced at

440-432: The “Lexicographical Challenges of Canadian English”. In March 1960, funding was granted to create the first Canadian Dictionary, DHCP-1 (Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles). Unfortunately, devastation would strike weeks after the news came, Charles Lovell passed away. The lead of the project would then be taken on and headed by Lovell's colleague and friend, Walter Spencer Avis . A professor of English at

462-610: Was a long-term secretary of the Canadian Linguistic Association , President from 1968–70, and was slated to become president-elect of the American Dialect Society in January 1980; however, he died suddenly in December 1979. Avis died in December 1979 from a heart attack. He left behind materials and data for a second edition of DCHP, which the remaining members of the editorial team, Matthew H. Scargill , Douglas Leechman , Charles B. Crate and Patrick Drysdale , completed by

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484-443: Was launched as a Centennial project; DCHP-2 was launched as a Sesquicentennial contribution with the goal of lifting the discussion about Canadianisms, and about Canadian English more generally, on an empirically sounder footing. The process started with the scanning and digitization of the first edition of the dictionary ( DCHP-1 ). The online version of DCHP-1 was made publicly accessible in 2013. The main data collection phase for

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