Mornings with Simi: There's now a dictionary for Canadian-isms! www.iheart.com/podcast/256-...

Fascinating. The current Third Edition of A Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles, DCHP-3, is the latest reiteration of a Canadian linguistics project that turned, sometime in the early 1960s, into a Canadian Centennial Project. #cdnpoli #canada #canadaday dchp.arts.ubc.ca

Für Leute in (speziell auch mit Migrartionshintergrund) und aus Österreich: Eine Studie undersucht die Einstellung von Menschen zum Österreichischen Deutsch. Das Ausfüllen dauert etwa 10 Minuten. Bitte mitmachen! ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Thank you, @joshuajfriedman.com. The bulk of the praise must go to the "Big Six", the six people who, in the 1950s, thought that there might be something Canadian about the English of Canada.

Sneak peek #1 on the Third Edition of the Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles, fothcoming in June 2025. "In hospital" and its Canadian dimension. Full entry here: dchp.arts.ubc.ca/entries/in%2... Comments welcome!

Austrian Word of the Week 65 is "Kompromiss" — compromise. Carefully crafted after WW2, K. is the ability to know the other & respect their limits. The world needs more "Kompromiss" these days, so let it blossom in & spread from AUT. @bundespraesident.at rightly called it a"cultural treasure".

Austrian Word of the Week number 64 (#AutWrdoWk) is "Pouvoir". Of old imperial stock it represents the multilingual character of Standard Austrian German. Try looking for it in present-day texts from Germany. Good luck, @spoe.at, @oevpwien.bsky.social, @neos.eu und @gruenewien.bsky.social! Godspeed!

@rauschermri.bsky.social summarizes the "succus".

Austrian Word of the Week 63 is a beauty: Sukkus, der (formal in Standard AutG for 'essence'). As in the attached passage from today's @derstandard.at: der Sukkus der FPÖ ist: alles ganz normal. Mitnichten! Nothing is normal with a postfascist party vying for head of government. Fire in the roof!

Österreichisches Deutsch oder Deutsch in Österreich? Identitäten im 21. Jahrhundert (new academic press, 2021). He is chief editor of the CED-sister project Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles (DCHP-3 forthcoming 2025; DCHP-2 2017; dchp.ca/dchp2) [2/2]

Thank you, thank you. *I* should rather showcase CED (Canadian English Dictionary), since it is probably the most exciting project in Canadian linguistics this side of the millennium for the next half century. Language historians think à la longue durée, n'est-ce pas?

Prefixes are fascinating! They are added on to the beginning of a word to create an entirely new word. Sometimes this new word means the exact opposite of the original. Think of the prefix im-. Add it to words like possible, plausible, or perfect and their meanings become the exact opposite.

On the latest episode of the crossword podcast @fillmeinpodcast.bsky.social, @cimmet.bsky.social and I talk about @americandialect.org's Word of the Year shenanigans and other silly stuff. bemoresmarter.libsyn.com/fill-me-in-4...

Austrian Word of the Week 62 is, fitting for the current month: Jänner 'January'. Germany uses Januar. Jänner is non-standard in Germany (plight of the Bavarians). In Austria, it is always and everywhere (also in Vbg.) Standard Austrian German. When will "Deutsch in Österreich" dig things like that?

A year is quite big for high-profile terms, congrats. With "bunnyhug" we managed for DCHP-3 from 1978 to 1976. It's hard work, so well done, your 1953!

Yep, songs about right and is precisely the biggest problem in a field where folks rather ridicule a colleague than discuss their critique of your work. All that's wrong in academia. Fix this and everything else will follow...

@benzimmer.bsky.social, what's your assessment? My own hunch is that it's comparable to the "-ussy" (considering its etymology), which, if right, leads me to the question: do we have to weight WOTY votes going forward? Gr8 initiative, as always. @americandialect.org WOTY: always gainful.

As the final day of #LSA2025 unfolds, we can’t help but feel inspired, grateful, & energized by the connections, ideas, & memories we've created together. There are still activities & sessions to engage in today. Thank you attendees, speakers, & sponsors who made this event extraordinary. #ThankYou

True. Impossible to finish, 'em lunch sizes. Can I have a small portion please (it's one huge size fits all - more conducive for a hyper capitalist system). Still nice, though, definitely not sustainable or "green" and feeling wasteful.

Holds for a few languages... well put, @petersokolowski.bsky.social!

Almost as good as @americandialect.org's WOTY 2024

A good choice this year, well done in-person hivemind @lingsocam.bsky.social!

Embarrassment is huge with humans and a cause for many undesirable effects. In Deutsch you'd best be translating it as "Kränkung".

Austrian Word of the Week 60 is "beleidigte Leberwurst" (roughly: sour grapes). It is how ÖVP & Neos act after walking away from talks with SPÖ. It's stunning how neoliberal the general discourse has become: "sharing tax burdens" is a stone of contention! AUT is exposed to Russia via FPÖ. #AutWrdoWk

Die rote Linie der ÖVP und die blaue Linie der ÖVP. Die blaue gewinnt verlässlich immer und die Leute schauen durch die Finger.

Will include this in sources I recommend to future English teachers 🤓

One could add that one's circumstances define the phrase's use, e.g. "out of pocket" when your travel fund isn't nearly big enough (in Swedish academia, or for many colleagues at UBC Arts -- same 4U, UBC @ubc-cenes.bsky.social?). Or, behave at work and let it go after hours (the chaotic aspect)?

Austrian Word of the Week #60 is a compound noun used by @orfnewsbot.bsky.social. Jus- 'law' from Latin, not Jura- 'laws' as in Germany. Like the university subjects: you study Jus in AUT, but Jura in GER.

Canadian Word of the Week No. 140 is by virtue of a Google search: "Toronto streetcar cat", where "cat" is auto-completed due to local and national, perhaps even some international, searches thanks to @cbc-news.bsky.social. It's our word of the week and you go search this up now with a cool video.

@poslfit.bsky.social and yours.truly, with QR107.3FM's Sarah Crosbie, talk Canadian Word of the Year, #CWOTY. #WOTY is great, #CWOTY has been missing. More to come, this here radio clip: 10 minutes & 30 seconds. Enjoy, youtu.be/BiqeuJzfbxg

Canadian Word of the Week 139 is "wait time". You can call it "wait time" (current), "waiting time" (wee bit old-fash), but whatever you call it, it's part of the Cdn experience. In the US you either don't wait or - often - have no hope for a part. service (not insured, wrong "class") #CdnWrdoWk

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NASPA Word of the Day: FAM n a family. Hooks:famE famS. https://scrabbleplayers.org/cgi-bin/wotd.pl

Canadian Word of the Week 138, #CdnWrdoWk, is "postie", as in: "I want my postie back to bring me my mail, with a smile and a chat". Canada is suffering without you, dear 55,000 posties, rural Canada is bleeding, untethered. Give them what they ask for, they deserve it more than any balance sheet.

I've taught from the second edition. Hello third edition. Good book for a number of socio issues and best I liked a comment on page 51: "language with a name" vs the have nots.

A good illustration of a universalist position. (A tribalist would limit the sentiment to one group or some groups only.) The latter is common and limiting, the former position is the one we need to actively practice.

Austrian Word of the Week 59 is from @falter.at: Kaffeesieder 'coffee brewer', where "sieder" is a version of "brewer" that is, compounded with "Kaffee", a bone fide Austrianism. The Kaffeesieders are in trouble. When at or near @univie.ac.at, order a 2nd cup to lend them a hand. #AutWrdoWk

2025 will be the year in which "levidrome" is included in the dictionary, a dictionary at least. Stay tuned. Campaign word folks, from flour, tweet to levidrome, listen up! There is hope, after all...

Austrian Word of the Week #59 (#AutWrdoWk) features the classic StAutGer -erl suffix: Goderl, meaning "Kehlkopf", "larynx" and you can see why we can't use these words in "scratching/petting somebody's Goderl". Very useful, thnx @klenkflorian.bsky.social. I scratch yours & you mine = AUT corruption

Canadian Word of the Week #137 is ... drumroll... "American Thanksgiving". Yep, that what the late US holiday is called here, without exception. Full entry: dchp.arts.ubc.ca/entries/Amer... #CdnWrdoWk

20 MW wind turbine. One rotation takes about 3 seconds, creating 60 MWs of energy, which is 16.7 kWh. This means that one single rotation of this turbine could drive our family's electric Hyundai Kona 120 km. In other words: 40 km of EV driving per second. esdnews.com.au/worlds-first...

In 1610, Galileo first looked at Jupiter through a telescope & he saw the gorgeous planet along with 4 moons. For those of you who have never seen Jupiter through a telescope, it is incredible! Here's Jupiter with the Galilean moons: Europa, Io, Ganymede & Callisto from my back yard in Victoria, BC

Austrian Word of the Week number 58: gescheitln (verb) 'to be smart-acting', after AutG "gescheit" (GerG "klug") 'smart'. #AutWrdoWk. We could say, @rauschermri.bsky.social @falter.at, in connection with Styria's election that Drexler is still "gescheiteln". The "pawn's victim" is a "sore loser".

That's the energy of a small nuclear station and totally without risk or own energy need. Well done Saskatchewan! More to come, I hope?

Interview with Prof. Rudolf DeCillia on a right-wing party's call to carry out language testing for all three-year olds. His suggestion: improve the kid-teacher ratio from 20:1 to 7:1 & ensure to leverage the kids' native languages in the acquisition of Austrian German. www.falter.at/zeitung/2024...

Meet John Chew, our Editor-in-Chief of the #CED #CanadianEnglishDicationary (think Gage Canadian and Canadian Oxford on steroids, because CED comes with an academic research unit). Details below. I think, however, that John is a Scrabblehead, much like @benzimmer.bsky.social and 'em good folks.

Great job, great department, what's not to like (housing costs, but hey, nowhere is paradise expect in the Austrian Salzkammergut). Do apply! I'm tempted, too.

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Austrian Word of the Week 57 is... Zuckerkoalition. Yep, it's a thing, it might become reality once the Christian Democrats, Social Democrats and Liberals (Pinkies) sign a coalition agreement. It's cute and quite serious simultaneously. #AutWrdoWk

NASPA Word of the Day: SOUNDBAR n an enclosure containing several loudspeakers. Anagram:baudrons. Hook:soundbarS. https://scrabbleplayers.org/cgi-bin/wotd.pl