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Faith Avis (née Hutchison) was a Canadian journalist and involved in the creation of A Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles[1] and other dictionaries of Canadian English by Gage Ltd.
Life and Education
[edit]Faith Avis earned a BA in journalism from Carleton University in 1946. One of her examiners was Douglas Leechman, who would become, via Avis's husband Walter S. Avis, one of the six editors of A Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles (1967) and later a major Canadian contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary.[2]
Role in DCHP-1
[edit]In the 1950s and 1960s, women usually only played minor roles in research.[3] It is in this context that one of Walter S. Avis's biographers notes that "Faith Avis was a highly educated woman" who "may have played a more major role in Canadian English than first meets the eye".[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles, first edition, 1967; digitized 2013
- ^ a b Dollinger, Stefan (2019). Creating Canadian English: The Professor, the Mountaineer, and a National Variety of English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 47–9. ISBN 978-1-108-49771-8.
She [Faith] certainly knew Douglas Leechman before Wally [Walter S.] Avis, ... [at] that time, Wally had not even started his BA degree.
- ^ Lovell, Charles J (1958). "What and hows of collecting for a Canadian dictionary". Canadian Journal of Linguistics.