Table of Contents

Adverbs

    The Endangered Adverb

    Feeling Bad

Apostrophes

    The Cottage Sign Error  

    Donald Jr.'s Apostrophe Error

    The Greengrocer's Apostrophe

    Its and It's

    The Missing Apostrophe 

    Possessive Plurals   

Commas

    The Oxford Comma

    Commas and Periods: Inside or Outside the Quotation Marks?

Grammatical and Other Errors

    Also and Nor

    Beget and Begat

    Bored With

    Career and Careen

    Collective Nouns

    Compliment and Complement

    Comprise

    Criterion and Criteria

    Dates, Punctuation of

    Disinterested and Uninterested

    Broadcast and Forecast

    Down with Singular "They"

    Enormity

    Fortuitous and Fortunate

    Going Forward

    Hoi Polloi

    Fewer and Less

    Language Evolves (a fun time, dived or dove, sneaked or snuck)

    Laid and Lain

    Lie and Lay, Laid and Lain

    Licence and License

    Like or As

    Possessive Gerund

    Practice and Practise

    Prophecy and Prophesy

    Substitute and Replace

    Who and Whom

Interesting Words

    Cataracts

    Dunnies

    Fainites and Barleys (Children's Truce Terms)

    Errant Balls and Arrant Knaves

    Flush

    Hither, Thither and Whither, Hence, Thence and Whence

    Roads, Moles and Groynes

    Woke (an Old Word with a New Meaning)

Metaphors

    A Mixed Metaphor

    Another Mixed Metaphor

    A Colonoscopy of Democrats

    It's Not Cricket

    Nautical Metaphors

    Zeugma

Nouns as Verbs

    Narrativize

    Nouns as Verbs

Plain Language (Not)

    Abuse and Misuse of Language

    The BC Referendum Question

    Gender-Identy Battlefields

    Language Pollution

Pronouns

      I or Me: the genteel Error  

      Pronouns Again

Sundries

    Alt-Right and Crtl-Left

    Canadian Spelling

    Children's Truce Terms

    Conversational Fillers

    Deaf Old Buggers in a Subjunctive Mood

    Errors Peculiar to Servers in Restaurants

    Gender-Identity Battlefields

    Jagmeet

    Knitting

    Olefacto Ergo Sum

    An Open Letter to the Globe and Mail

    Reading with a Yawn

    Re-creation

    Shakespeare

    Sic transit gloria mundi

   Walking Clubs

    The Winnipeg Roundabout

    The Winnipeg Wind Chill Factor Omission

Ugly Words

    Behaviours

    Evidence (v)     See Nouns as Verbs

    Fulsome, A Fulsome Consultation and That Ugly Word Again

    Gift (v)             See Nouns as Verbs

    Incentivise       See Nouns as Verbs

    medal (v)         See Nouns as Verbs

    Narrativize    

    Precarity

    reference (v)    See Nouns as Verbs