The woman who entered “jambusters” in the (well, her) dictionary read popular novels and listened to parliamentary debates to find the most Canadian English in the country. “To hunt for Canadian entries and the distinct Canadian meanings of words, Ms. Barber partly relied on a technique long used by Oxford. She assembled a small army of freelance ‘readers,’ who pored over catalogs, newspapers, magazines and almost anything else they could find for distinctive Canadian words. Ms. Barber always traveled with a notebook to record words on posters and signs that struck her as possibly Canadian.” – The New York Times
