Archive for category: Linguistics

Antitoyne    (2011.05.19)

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

Douché!    (2011.05.16)

“When you have to concede that someone has made a good counterargument, but they’re being a jerk about it”

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

Faux fonts of ‘Funkytown’    (2011.03.15)

It’s Arial! Arial! Everywhere! in Steve Galluccio’s homage to disco Montreal, Funkytown

How to pronounce Fukushima    (2011.03.14)

It isn’t fuu kuu SHEEE ma

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

Euphemism of the year    (2010.12.22)

Self-communion (also dickileaks)

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