Someone was reading a news story about a twelve-year-old who skipped most of secondary school and go
Both long U and long OO sounds are spelt with a magic e and the digraphs EW and UE.1 The English lon
Words that begin with the letter U have a very general spelling/pronunciation pattern in common word
In the last article I looked at magic e and the long U sound. This time I will look at the long U di
There are several common spelling patterns for the long U sound.1 In this article I will cover what
Will you, or someone you know, be a patient (sick person) in a hospital? Be sure you know what jobs
When people talk to doctors there are many potential language confusions. I have heard people descri
In the last article I investigated double had. This time I will cover several other examples of doub
A student found the word 'had' doubled, as “had had”, and she asked me if it was
Victoria Day is a very Canadian holiday. It started out much the same as the original English holida
A headline in an English newspaper annoyed me. (In this article, and many language texts, an asteris
The way some people, who should know better, misuse capital letters is shocking. We use capital lett