Archive for category: Canadian English

Canadian English, especially spelling

Canadian Word of the Year 2010    (2010.12.16)

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All the allegedly Canadian words in the OED    (2010.12.10)

All 573 Canadian English headwords from the OED

Worst line-editing of the year    (2010.08.25)

It’s in the most overrated book of the year, The Imperfectionists

‘Globish’ my ass    (2010.05.31)

Robert McCrum actually doesn’t talk about Canadian English in his new book Globish

Husband/wife    (2009.12.22)

Has the usage of his husband and her wife expanded? Yes, mostly

Concordance of Word of the Year 2009 entries    (2009.12.22)

What’s the American word of the year? Birther. What’s the word of the year, period? Birther. And here’s why

Talking with the taxman about how to spell ‘poetry’    (2009.09.18)

The Royal Bank of Canada has trouble spelling the word practise

Keep your pyjamas on, Howard    (2009.09.17)

Excitable city councillor Howard Moscoe goes a bit overboard complaining about Microsoft Word’s anglicisms