Grammatical and Other Peregrinations

As Winston Smith said with unconscious irony, the best books are those that tell you what you know already, and the same goes for opinion pi...

I’ve railed a lot against ugly words like “fulsome” and “behaviours” and “precarity” and “ incentivize”, so perhaps it’s time to share some ...

I saw a solitary leaf  Blown across the lawn, I gazed i n disbelief, Just one! Its fellow leaves forlorn A mottled heap across the way, A mo...

This is not going down well on the left of the Democratic Party, which is clustered in cities and increasingly comprised of the well-educate...

All hail to thee, apostrophe. Prithee, Why dost thou stray from where thou dost belong Within a word considered rather long, Where once, it ...

“Breathe easily,” I said to the sign erected by an institution that cared not for the adverb. But the battle was lost 48 years ago in the Pa...

  And the Vancouver School Board said in a statement that the new curriculum mandates “an inclusive model of education,” so “all students wi...