Archive for category: Canadian English

Barber–Colombo    (2007.11.07)

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

‘Design City Toronto’    (2007.06.16)

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

If you don’t want to take my word for it    (2006.09.29)

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

‘The Hobgoblin of Canadian English Spelling’    (2006.09.11)

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

A ‘C’ student from the word “go”    (2006.09.03)

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

Angry nitpicking    (2006.08.31)

In lieu of “sending angry nitpicking letters to the CBC,” I thought I’d use picture postcards

Organizing our marvellous neighbours    (2006.08.22)

Why does the CBC use British English to write its captioning?

’Tis an error i’faith    (2006.08.21)

What is with CBC captioners’ fondness for ‘single quotes’?