Grammatical and Other Peregrinations

Endeavour Careened by Kevin Charles Hart It is pleasing when someone uses a word precisely and correctly. It happened like this. My friend ...

“I’ll be leaving in, like, half an hour,” said my grandson.  I refrained from responding, “When, exactly, will you be leaving?” as I might h...

Yesterday, I visited the cosmetics department at the Bay. Not willingly, I assure you: I had been given the task of picking up some Christia...

  The Smartphone When and why and what I need to know, And how to get to where I want to go And who is dating whom, the so-and-so, Just ask ...

  We are experiencing a cold spell here in Victoria. Recently, I read that the temperature was going down to minus 20. It wasn’t, of course....

  COVID-19 is not ever likely to be eradicated from the planet. It will become something that we can quite easily live with, like we do an...

I may have solved the “singular they” problem. The problem is that in English we don’t have a singular, non-gendered pronoun. We have “he” o...