English, Jack

I'm working on a post about editing poetry, but it still needs some work. In the meantime, here's another poem. This is one of my fa...

Glimpse Sight is a bird atop the spine. Sleep is the twittering of the closed eye. There comes a river of fish caught in dream’s light. The ...

Up until a few days ago, I was under the impression that objects (the grammatical function, rather than the physical entities, though those ...

I seem to write about determinatives on this blog more than one might expect. It occurs to me that I've probably never been explicit abo...

I'm considering pitching a column to The Walrus magazine and they ask that the pitch include writing samples. I figured that I might in...

My brother has given me permission to publish a few of his poems here. This one, entitled "Ouimet Canyon" was published in a chap...

My brother, Michael Eden Reynolds, has just received notification that Tightrope Press would like to include his poem, "A-Frame", ...

... which turned out to be a little too long for a comment, so here it goes. The construction in question ( There is an N and an N ) is, I b...

Over on the ETJ list , Chris Clancy asked about the following sentences: There were a decline and an increase in the respective populations....

I've been rereading lots of stuff to prepare for the pedagogical grammar course that I'll be teaching for the first time in Sept. It...

In July we went to France for sightseeing and a wedding. We had a wonderful week and met many kind and interesting people, but the whole tim...

The following guest post is from Rodney Huddleston. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to comment on your ` More on obligatory adjectives ...

[After reading this post, please see the response by Rodney Huddleston] About a month ago, I brought up structures like a further two mont...

Language Log is almost always interesting, but rarely do they discuss much that bears directly on English Language Teaching. Yesterday, thou...

Over the years, the good folks at Language Log have ridiculed the claims of Paul JJ Payack and his Global Language Monitor . Mostly, they...

Each year in Canada we celebrate our national day on July 1 and then a few days later, our neighbours to the south celebrate their own day. ...

We're currently looking at putting a new garden shed in the yard. The old aluminum one was on its last legs before a great avalanche of ...

Jan Freeman is one of the few professional language columnists who's much more interested in finding out about something than in bemoani...

The Toronto Star recently called for Stéphane Dion to get "speech therapy" from a speech language pathologist because of his Fren...

Over at Language Log, Heidi Harley has pointed out once again how that British terminal r can result in all sorts of mix ups for us rhotic...