Dictionary of Canadianisms offers more homegrown slang, from give’r to gong show | Unpublished
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Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Eric Andrew-Gee
Publication Date: July 5, 2025 - 08:00

Dictionary of Canadianisms offers more homegrown slang, from give’r to gong show

July 5, 2025
Have you ever been asked to really give’r but ended up in a gong show? Gone to buy a freezie and some Cheezies only to be dinged with the GST? Gotten into a kerfuffle with an old winterer?You’ve been speaking Canadian. A collection of our national expressions with the fittingly unflashy title A Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles, Third Edition has just been updated with more than a 100 words and phrases that are defiantly ours. The online publication by the University of British Columbia’s Department of English Language and Literatures goes way beyond “eh.”


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