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We Didn’t Choose To Be Called Indigenous

October 4, 2017February 18, 2022 - by Mel Lefebvre

Knowing what mistakes Canada has made in the past will ensure that we stop paternalistic, colonial patterns from repeating.

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Circle Back to Me When You’ve Read This

August 10, 2017April 5, 2020 - by Jacob McArthur Mooney

The case for corporate jargon

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Why Academics Revel in Bad Writing

July 28, 2017April 5, 2020 - by Sarah Sweet

The profession’s taste for tortured verbiage comes from a desire to be taken seriously. But does it matter if no one actually reads their work?

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Barbarians at the Gates of Grammar

June 7, 2017November 11, 2019 - by Sarah Sweet

My Latinist father and I always disagreed about language. Then I got old

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Why Women Who Fish Are Still Fishermen

April 27, 2017November 20, 2021 - by Sarah Sweet

It’s clear when language is sexist—except when the people you’re talking about disagree

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Please Stop Sending Me the Oxford Comma Story

March 22, 2017November 11, 2019 - by Sarah Sweet

Copy editors have lives outside of punctuation—but also, I love commas

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Trump’s Typo Problem: Human Error, or Willful Ignorance?

February 16, 2017February 16, 2022 - by Sarah Sweet

The number of mistakes signals that important people don’t know what they’re doing—and couldn’t care less

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Can You Trust Your Dictionary?

January 6, 2017August 21, 2017 - by Sarah Sweet

The Canadian Oxford can be a writer’s best friend—if they understand its limitations

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‘Alt-Right’ and the Danger of Euphemisms

November 22, 2016April 21, 2022 - by Sarah Sweet

The media should not help white nationalists rebrand bigotry

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Understanding Trump’s Grammar

November 4, 2016February 21, 2020 - by Sarah Sweet

It’s tempting to mock the way Trump speaks — but doing so plays right into his tiny hands

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