Archive for category: Linguistics
- za us fir Apple (2010.02.27)
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When, if ever, is Apple going to fix the word prediction in the iPhone keyboard? (Too many errors fir my liking)
- Husband/wife (2009.12.22)
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Has the usage of his husband and her wife expanded? Yes, mostly
- Concordance of Word of the Year 2009 entries (2009.12.22)
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What’s the American word of the year? Birther. What’s the word of the year, period? Birther. And here’s why
- ‘Kʰahster’ Semenya (2009.12.17)
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Two paralinguistic observations about Ariel Levy’s endless feature on Caster Semenya in the New Yorker
- Spaced (2009.12.03)
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No, Caleb Crain, wordspaces are not strictly necessary.
- Ignitpick (2009.10.16)
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Ignite Toronto is making the same mistakes in its second outing it did in its first. Also: Why can’t computers read the Goof sign?
- Talking with the taxman about how to spell ‘poetry’ (2009.09.18)
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The Royal Bank of Canada has trouble spelling the word practise
- Keep your pyjamas on, Howard (2009.09.17)
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Excitable city councillor Howard Moscoe goes a bit overboard complaining about Microsoft Word’s anglicisms