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August 2nd, 2024: Our First Grant Funding!

The Access Copyright Foundation has announced its 2024 Marian Hebb Research Grant recipients. Included in the list is a grant to the Editor’s Association of Canada to help us modernize obsolete entries in our dictionary.

April 19, 2024: CED in the News

Editor John Chew talked about the CED with Matt Galloway on CBC Radio One's The Current today, following an article by Cassandra Drudi in Quill & Quire.

February 29, 2024: Nelson Education Deal Signed

Editor John Chew announces via Editors Canada that work on the dictionary can begin, thanks to the inking of a licensing deal with Nelson Education for the use of their Nelson Gage Canadian Paperback Dictionary as a base for our project.

June 17, 2023 – Editors Canada Conference

Editor John Chew gives a talk about his first public progress report on the project at the annual conference in Toronto: “A New Dictionary of Canadian English: Progress to Date”

June 1, 2023 – Dictionary Society of North America

CED committee member Stefan Dollinger mentioned the CED in his talk at the DSNA’s biennial meeting in Boulder, CO.

January 6, 2023 – American Dialect Society

The first public mention of the Canadian English Dictionary took place at a talk by CED committee member Stefan Dollinger and Editor John Chew at the American Dialect Society meeting in Denver: “Quo vadis, Canadian English lexicography? Historical and contemporary stock-taking & sustainable course corrections for the digital, free-dictionary age”.