Wordlady

I have long been annoyed by the automated announcements of departing flights in many Canadian airports. The English announcements are made b...

Just back from Rome, where some delightful menu translations gave me pause. Not sure whether I was more taken aback by "Dread topped wi...

A very common error is to write or say "undoubtably". The word is "undoubtedly". If you really want to impress people, y...

I am getting more than a little annoyed by bend-over-backward attempts to avoid words that mean "Christmas". First it was the ...

Saw this on a plaque at Canada's National Ballet School tonight: "Batik is an art form that involves outlining a picture with wax,...

I have few pet peeves, but one of them is incorrect verb tense sequence in conditional sentences, like this one I just read in the paper: ...

Here's a newish word that seems to be catching on. A quick Google search unearthed the earliest usage I could find, from January 2005 in...