Grammatical and Other Peregrinations
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Friday, 16 March 2012
The great ME vs. MYSELF debate about Jane and her damn coffee
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Even the Archbishop of Canterbury makes the odd grammatical mistake. In announcing his resignation thi...
Tuesday, 13 March 2012
Bored with
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Shame! The Globe should know better than this. In the travel section today, we read: For people bored of playing war on their video-game ...
Thursday, 8 March 2012
Honorary or honourary?
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Baird presents Myanmar's Suu Kyi with honorary Canadian citizenship blazed the Globe in a headline this morning. Yet on a TV channel ...
Wednesday, 8 February 2012
Also and Nor
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"Also" is a very useful adverb meaning "in addition to", and is often used as a transition into a second sentence which ...
Tuesday, 7 February 2012
A word about toilet paper
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When I was very, very young, I used to get up in the morning and run to the toilet, or "lav" as we called it, at the top of our ya...
Saturday, 24 December 2011
Customer service and common sense
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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...
Friday, 23 December 2011
Possessive gerund
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Mr. Charest, appealing to nationalist sentiment, has often been unhappy with Prime Minister Harper's government, but he hasn't calle...
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