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   (2008.07.13)

I eventually give up reviewing The Prodigal Tongue by Mark Abley

   (2008.06.28)

Jingoistic national stereotypes from Google

   (2008.04.24)

Or: @ 133† †00 ƒ@r?

New York state vanity licence plate on a Mercury SUV reads D3S1GN3R. Nearby, a green-white-red ITALIAN MUSCLE bumper sticker shows a shirtless bodybuilder in a hard hat

Note the bumper sticker damagingly applied to a painted surface. Ethnic stereotype?

   (2007.11.07)

Q&A with Katherine Barber and John Robert Colombo, mostly about Canadian English

   (2007.06.16)

A book by Toronto writers about Toronto architecture… written in British English and typeset in Helvetica Light

   (2006.09.29)

Myths about Canadian English, and why your B.A. in English lit does not set you up to do captioning

   (2006.09.11)

130 words that are spelled differently in the U.S., the U.K., and of course Canada

   (2006.09.03)

Taking CBC captioning down a notch (how many notches has it got left?), this time with a Robbie Coltrane vehicle

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