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The Inner Editor: Please Allow Me To … Interrupt You

February 6, 2018 | Filed under: Virginia Durksen

On Facebook recently, a colleague reported being the victim of a phone hijacking. You might recognize the feeling. A potential client calls to ask about editing services and then spends the better part of an hour telling her story with barely a breath between sentences, leaving you with no room …

Autonomes oui, mais partenaires

January 30, 2018 | Filed under: Micheline Frechette

Selon les dernières statistiques, un nombre record de Canadiens étaient travailleurs autonomes en 2016 – près de 2,8 millions. Ce chiffre n’a cessé d’augmenter au cours des 20 dernières années. Et pour cause : travailler pour soi-même peut apporter de nombreux avantages : liberté, flexibilité et la chance de poursuivre …

Editing Technical Instructional Material: Do You Need to Be an Expert?

January 23, 2018 | Filed under: Tracey Anderson

“How can you edit that? You don’t know anything about being an electrician.” I often heard that question and variations of it — carpenter, instrument technician, welder — in my years editing technical instructional materials for apprenticeship trades in Alberta. This is how I answered the question. I am the …

The Perils of Not Knowing

January 16, 2018 | Filed under: Brendan O’Brien

One of the downsides of freelance editing is that you’re not there (wherever “there” may be) to explain your thinking on occasions when it might be appropriate to do so. Furthermore, you’re probably unaware that such occasions have even arisen. When I had in-house jobs, I learned a lot from …

Revisiting Verbal Boobery

January 9, 2018 | Filed under: Karen Virag

In memory of Karen Virag, who passed away Jan. 11, 2014, we are pleased to republish one of her popular blog posts from November 2013. Verbal whatery? Not long ago in the Air Canada Lounge at Toronto Pearson Airport I noticed a small sign beside a tray of freshly baked …

Happy Holidays and Year in Review

December 19, 2017 | Filed under: Anna Williams

Dear Readers, We’ve had some fantastic content on the blog this year, from Marianne Grier’s description of her reintroduction to Canadian English to Marion Soublière’s report after attending an editing conference in Scotland. We enjoyed Brendan O’Brien’s inaugural post about being a reluctant editor and were fascinated to learn about Dracula …

A Macaronic Feather in Our Cap

December 12, 2017 | Filed under: James Harbeck

English is gloriously macaronic. I don’t mean that it’s like a big bowl of elbow noodles, not exactly. But I also don’t mean that it’s like a macaron — well, maybe I do, but that’s not what the word means. Macaronic, linguistically, refers to something that’s a mixture of languages. …

Wasted Words: On the PC Front

December 5, 2017 | Filed under: Wilf Popoff

The Grey Cup eluded the Edmonton Eskimos again this year, but that’s not the worst of the team’s troubles: the political correctness refs want it to lose its name as well. The club chose its regrettable label in 1949, but it had been widely used by other Edmonton football squads …

Revisiting the Inner Editor: December Is the Cruellest Month

November 28, 2017 | Filed under: Virginia Durksen

Last year, we published this post on the freelancer’s holiday blues. This year, we’re following up with our readers. Have you implemented any of these ideas? Do you have other tips for avoiding the holiday lull? When projects disappear in other months, the freelance editor adjusts her schedule and cash …

The Story of Canadian English

November 21, 2017 | Filed under: Frances Peck

For those of us still grieving the defunct Canadian Oxford Dictionary, the release of the second edition of A Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles, on March 17 this year, lent some comfort. First published in 1967 to coincide with Canada’s centennial, the DCHP not only gives spellings and definitions …

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