Creating Canadian English: The professor, the mountaineer, and a national variety of English (CCE) by Stefan Dollinger is a highly readable history of the codification of Canadian English (CanE) and Canadian lexicography that is based on novel archival research and Dollinger’s own research and professional dictionary writing experience. At its heart, the monograph’s nine chapters trace the context and minutiae of the writing of the first edition of the Dictionary of Canadianisms on historical principles (DCHP-1) (Avis, Crate, Drysdale, Leechman, Scargill & Lovell 1967) by way of biography of the “Bix Six”—the editorial team of the DCHP-1 and, as Dollinger suggests, the forefathers of the linguistic study of CanE. While each is given the spotlight at different points, Dollinger’s main attention is on the titular professor (Walter S. Avis) and mountaineer (Charles J. Lovell). He credits these two scholars for doing more for the analysis and public awareness of CanE than certainly any of their contemporaries and perhaps anyone since. The cast of characters might be less eccentric than those involved with the writing of the OED—there are no murders nor madness as documented in Winchester (1998)—but this monograph is not intended as a historical drama. Dollinger’s goal is clear: to honor the names Avis and Lovell and prevent their loss from our collective academic memory.

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书评：创造加拿大英语：教授，登山家和民族英语的多样性

创建加拿大英语： Stefan Dollinger的教授，登山者和英语的国家通用变种（CCE）是加拿大英语（CanE）和加拿大词典编纂法的一部备受读者青睐的历史，它基于新颖的档案研究和Dollinger自己的研究以及专业的字典撰写经验。本专着的九章从根本上追溯了第一版有关历史原则的加拿大主义字典的写作背景和细节。（DCHP-1）（Avis，Crate，Drysdale，Leechman，Scargill和Lovell 1967），以“ Bix Six”的传记作为形式-DCHP-1的编辑团队，正如Dollinger所建议的那样，是语言研究的先驱的甘蔗。当每个人都在不同的位置受到关注时，Dollinger的主要注意力放在名义上的教授（Walter S. Avis）和登山者（Charles J. Lovell）上。他认为这两位学者在分析和提高对CanE的认识方面所做的工作比他们任何同时代的人以及自那时以来的任何人都多。与撰写OED所涉及的角色相比，这些角色的偏心可能要少一些。—温彻斯特（1998）中没有记载谋杀或疯狂—但是这本专论并不是要作为一部历史戏剧。Dollinger的目标很明确：要尊敬Avis和Lovell这两个名字，并防止他们因我们的集体学术记忆而流失。