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Watchwords: "Bakeapple" one of many linguistic delights
“What kinds of pie do you have tonight?” the man sitting by the window asked. He and I were both eating dinner in a café in the outport of Cow Head, N.L.
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Baseball, barbecue and all that jazz
Be kind to the words of summer. Some of them have taken a long, strange path to get here. Now they lie blinking in the hot sun, as though unsure of their distant origins and their fate.
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‘Primate city’ has nothing to do with chimps
“Having met through the Internet a woman who lives in South Africa,” a reader confessed to me last week,
‘Marsales’ has fallen off the anglo map
Every time I hear the name of France’s second-largest city, I think of my late friend Joan.
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Watchwords: Quebecer, Québécois or Quebecian?
The geological event that devastated Emilia-Romagna last month was, to my mind, an Italian earthquake. Many headline writers saw it differently. On the Huffington Post website, it was “Italy Earthquake...
Watchwords: Calling Jean Charest Hitler or Quebec students terrorists adds fuel to the fire
Back in mid-April – how long ago it seems! – I recall seeing a picture that circulated on the Internet, courtesy of a group called Les Justiciers masqués.
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Who said dinosaurs were extinct?
Dinosaurs fossils had been familiar in Asia for centuries – witness the mythology of dragons and griffins. But only gradually did dinosaurs become an essential part of the public imagination.
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