Bud the Spud illustrated children's book in 1994 featuring Bud the truck driver, and his dog. The song was made available digitally for the first time on Canada Day in 2008. In 2008 "Bud the Spud" was the first song played on the new Spud Radio station in Pemberton, Ontario. In 2013 a group of New Democrat Members of Parliament performed the song in the Canadian Parliament Building on their way to Question Period. "Bud the Spud" peaked at number 26 on the "RPM" Country Tracks chart on February 28, 1970. Bud the Spud "Bud the Spud" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriting
Slang legal setting, as both are arenas in which standard language is considered necessary and/or whether the term has been entered in the Oxford English Dictionary, which some scholars claim changes its status as slang. It is often difficult to collect etymologies for slang terms, largely because slang is a phenomenon of speech, rather than written language and etymologies which are typically traced via corpus. Eric Partridge, cited as the first to report on the phenomenon of slang in a systematic and linguistic way, postulated that a term would likely be in circulation for a decade before it would be written