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I recently received from the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General a questionnaire aimed at determining my suitability for jury duty.  ...

Sorry to disappoint the more salacious-minded of you, but this post will not be providing images of women's upper...

Friends of mine recently had a facebook discussion about the meaning of "nonplussed" (also spelled "nonplused" by Americ...

There seems to be no rhyme or reason to how we form the simple past tense of verbs ending in -ing and -ink in English. While most people s...

Last week we looked at what the Germans and English call a mixture of beer and 7-Up, but I haven't exhausted this topic yet (and am stil...

I am once again offering this fun survey of the English language, described by one of my students as "the best course I've ever ...

When it comes to adopting words from English, German is as enthusiastic about borrowing as a teenage girl let loose on the clothes in her si...