No More Canadian Oxford Dictionary

[ltmurnau]

The entire staff of the Canadian Oxford Dictionary (all four of them) have been laid off by Oxford University Press due to declining sales of print dictionaries:

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2008/10/02/canadian-oxford.html

I actually applied to work there, back in 1992 when they advertised for three lexicographers. I got a nice rejection letter, signed by Katherine Barber ("Canada's Word Lady" as the article puts it). I still have it and have used it as a model for rejection letters I have had to write myself over the years.

I think it would have been an interesting job.