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Photo by Austin Walker on Unsplash A friend of mine came down with the painful ailment known as shingles last week. All her friends commise...

Wait, is this a phaser or a fazer?   Which of these sentences is spelled correctly? But nothing fazes Richard, so he'll be up for...

It seems that Wordlady is in a schoolmarmy reproving sort of mood in time for back-to-school, so once again I am writing about a - gasp - ...

Just when I think there are certain homophone confusions no one will ever make, I come across ... " bridle party " instead of ...

An extraordinarily common spelling mistake is "sneak peak". Since a peak is a mountain, it would be pretty difficult to sneak one ...

  Just reading a newspaper article about edible flowers which has the following flower-prep recommendation: "...

I just read a posting for a job which required candidates who could "find creative solutions to hurtles that arise". What the...

Thwock. With the opening of the Rogers Cup tennis championship tomorrow, there will be a racket of racquets at York University. The impleme...

I was just up at a resort on Georgian Bay where I got some exercise with a pedal boat -- or, as the spelling-challenged resort called it, a ...

If you read a book intently, you don't pour over it, but pore over it (unless you at the same time douse it bizarrely with a liquid). Pe...