Grammatical and Other Peregrinations

Like "practice" and "practise", "prophecy" is the noun and "prophesy" the verb. The last syllable of...

In the paper this morning, I noticed a comment from a police superintendent about the problem with gangs in Kelowna: Gang activity is huge...

"Fortuitous" does not mean "fortunate". It means "by chance". In the latest edition of my wine magazine, I rea...

"Licence" is the noun; "license" is the verb. And the same is true of "practice" and "practise". The...

Recently in a post, I explained that many people mistakenly think that the verb "to cast" has a different past tense. It doesn...

Today's error is usually made by people with less formal education than the editors of the Globe an...

"Forecast" and "broadcast" are compounds of that marvellous old English verb, to cast, which occurs so many times in the...