![]() ![]() Tagliamonte laments the fact that, out of more than 600,000 words in the OED, only around 700 entries are dubbed "Canadian."ĭuration 1:50 University of Toronto professor Sali Tagliamonte has been on a decade-long mission to document Ontario lingo. "And so, every community I go to has its own story, has its own words, has its own local expressions." "All these communities have their own flavour, their own cultural, local phenomena that are of interest," said Tagliamonte. Since then, she's criss-crossed the province, visiting 16 other communities, including Arnprior, Beaverton, Belleville, Burnt River, Haliburton, Kapuskasing, North Bay, Peterborough, Toronto and Wilno. Tagliamonte started her quest in 2008 in her hometown, Kirkland Lake, Ont., a community east of Timmins that began as a gold mining camp. "When we have a word deep in our past, that we learned as a child, we often don't know it's not the same word other people have for the same thing," she said. Tagliamonte's goal is to bring new Canadian words, or new definitions of already-included words, to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). That sentence has a few made-in-Canada words, says University of Toronto linguistics professor Sali Tagliamonte, who's been on a decade-long mission to document Ontario slang.įor many Ontarians, a "soaker" is what happens when someone steps in a puddle "slimes" are the waste from a mine that fills the space where a lake once was and a "bush party" is an outdoor party off in the woods. ![]() Are you born and raised in northern Ontario? If so, you might understand this warning: Don't get a soaker from the slimes on your way to the bush party! ![]()
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