Archive for category: Canadian English

Canadian English, especially spelling

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

æ vs. ɑː    (2009.03.31)

Pasta, Mazda, balcony, nirvana, alcove

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