Archive for category: Linguistics

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’?

Harmless drudgery – but Canadian    (2005.01.29)

Canadian English terminology, courtesy Katherine Barber of the OED