Archive for category: Canadian English

Canadian English, especially spelling

Wannabe Brit laments Canadian English    (2011.06.21)

Here we have what is easily the dumbest thing written about English linguistics in ’011

Antitoyne    (2011.05.19)

Somebody tell Becky Toyne that Canadian English is not “muddled… with American words and (mostly) British spellings”

This is what happens when you shitcan your Canadian staff    (2011.04.01)

Memo to Sara Hawker of the OED: No, ‑ise and ‑yse verb endings aren’t correct in Canada

Worst words-of-the-year article of the year    (2010.12.29)

Misty Harris wrote the worst article about words of the year. And the worst sin in this worst article? Guidette says it all

Canadian Word of the Year 2010    (2010.12.16)

G20

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