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We Didn’t Choose To Be Called Indigenous
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
The case for corporate jargon
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Why Academics Revel in Bad Writing
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
My Latinist father and I always disagreed about language. Then I got old
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Why Women Who Fish Are Still Fishermen
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
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?
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?
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
The media should not help white nationalists rebrand bigotry
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Understanding Trump’s Grammar
It’s tempting to mock the way Trump speaks — but doing so plays right into his tiny hands
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