Grammatical and Other Peregrinations

When I began these posts, I warned you that I might occasionally stray from my area of putative expertise and reflect on other matters. This...

Mr. Charest, appealing to nationalist sentiment, has often been unhappy with Prime Minister Harper's government, but he hasn't calle...

When I was at school, we were taught never to use the word "get". It was probably considered a bit common. We were to receive  let...

Even the Guardian makes mistakes. Apostrophes indicate either contractions or possessives. Possessives are indicated as follows: sing...

As part of her excellent series on the caste system in India, Stephanie Nolan writes in this morning's Globe about the Love Commandos, ...

Ah, the enormity of it! Just as the use, or to my mind, mis use, by many people of words such as "disinterested" for "uninter...

"I was having high tea at the Empress recently," said an acquaintance recently. "Keeping company with the hoi polloi. "...