Katherine Barber

Katherine Patricia Mary Barber (born 1959) is a Canadian lexicographer and was previously Editor-in-Chief of the "Canadian Oxford Dictionary".

Born in Ely, Cambridgeshire, England, she received a Bachelor of Arts degree University of Winnipeg in 1980 and a Master of Arts from the University of Ottawa in 1990.

From 1984 to 1991, she was a lecturer in the School of Translation and Interpretation at the University of Ottawa. From 1989 to 1991, she was a research associate with the Bilingual Canadian Dictionary project at the University of Ottawa. She was Editor-in-Chief of Canadian Dictionaries for the Oxford University Press in Canada from 1991 to 2008, when OUP closed the Canadian dictionary department. [Canwest News Service, ” [http://www.canada.com/components/print.aspx?id=c74519ed-c8d5-4312-869b-af7508dd65cc Oxford closes Canadian dictionary division] ”, October 1, 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-01.]

Other publications

* Katherine Barber (2006) "Six Words You Never Knew Had Something to Do with Pigs and Other Fascinating Facts About the Language from Canada's Word Lady," Don Mills, Ontario: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195424409.
* Katherine Barber (2007) "Only in Canada You Say: A Treasury of Canadian Language," Don Mills, Ontario: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195427073.

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External links

* [http://www.oup.com/ca/genref/dictionaries/canadian/ Meet our Canadian Lexicographers] – at Oxford University Press Canada
* [http://www.tabaret.uottawa.ca/article_e_212.html Tabaret Magazine University of Ottawa] – Canadian English A Real Mouthful Canadian Food words.