Two hours of Canadian vowels this weekend
Test The Nation: Watch Your Language is a two-hour linguistic and lexical contest pitting teams of Canadians against each other. It airs this weekend on CBC. Until the show airs, try out their mental gym, though be warned that an uncomfortable number of answers are disputable.
Dear Hollywood: please rip off this television idea for American audiences, and fast.
British newspaper holds on to “arse”
Even though the British newspaper
the Guardian has a larger online readership in the US than it does in the UK, readers’ editor Siobhain Butterworth says that
British spellings and usage are still preferred by the paper. The paper’s style guide editor says, “We are a British newspaper, US readers recognise this and seem comfortable with what we do.”
Typographical errors: the bane of the hurried man
There are few things that brace one’s humility quite so well as sending an email with a profound typographical error in it to 1800 people.
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