Baba Brinkman & Professor Elemental: What’s Your English?
february 2011 by joeclark
en-CA smacks down avec en-UK
en-CA
English
CanadianEnglish
en-UK
youtube
february 2011 by joeclark
Bullshit piece by Amy Thibodeau about Canadian English
january 2011 by joeclark
Thibodeau proved she knows nothing about it in the first place
en-ca
canadianenglish
English
guardian
amythibodeau
january 2011 by joeclark
Shitty writing by university students explained
january 2011 by joeclark
‘Punctuation… is governed by a fairly complicated series of rules and conventions, learned for the most part not in the classroom but by encountering and subliminally absorbing them again and again…. You need to read a lot of edited and published prose’
English
copy-editing
copyediting
clunk
benyagoda
writing
january 2011 by joeclark
‘Newfoundland and Labrador English’ by Sandra Clarke
december 2010 by joeclark
Sound files for upcoming book
Newfoundland
NewfoundlandEnglish
English
en-CA
en-CA-NL
sandraclarke
december 2010 by joeclark
Flickr: "Quotation Mark" Abuse
january 2006 by joeclark
"Signs" that abuse "Quotation Marks." (As by using neutral ones?)
type
typography
English
orthography
quotes
spelling
flickr
january 2006 by joeclark
The Eggcorn Database
january 2006 by joeclark
Malapropisms (copyright/copywritten, for example)
eggcorn
linguistics
English
january 2006 by joeclark
Canadian English should be used at Toronto City hall, Moscoe bleats
december 2005 by joeclark
This presupposes an accurate and functional MS Office Canadian dictionary that isn’t simply a duplication of the U.K. English dictionary
English
CanadianEnglish
linguistics
msoffice
lexicography
december 2005 by joeclark
Double-Tongued Word Wrester Dictionary
december 2005 by joeclark
New or fringe English words
lexicography
English
linguistics
doubletongued
monickels
december 2005 by joeclark
‘Beg the Question’
november 2005 by joeclark
‘To beg the question does not mean to raise the question’
begthequestion
english
linguistics
november 2005 by joeclark
Rid the world of ‘solutions’
november 2005 by joeclark
One buzzword that’s *got* to go
buzzword
english
solutions
businessweek
linguistics
november 2005 by joeclark
Galliscismes en anglais
september 2005 by joeclark
French loan words in English
linguistics
lexicography
french
english
gallicisms
september 2005 by joeclark
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