Photo of the New Canadian Library edition of Ethel Wilson's Swamp Angel by David Topping. Note spelling of "colors." You probably write "honour" and "analyze." Quite possibly you write "cozy" and "axe." But do you write "jewellery" or "jewelry"? "Focused" or "focussed"? To guide you through the mangrove swamp that is Canadian spelling, up pops Joe Clark—local writer, accessibility advocate, typographic aesthete, and cuddly curmudgeon. His new book, Organizing Our Marvellous Neighbours: How to......

Behind the scenes, we at Torontoist are known to pedantically and tediously debate the use of em dashes—like these—and the proper form of an ellipsis (technically, "…" is more correct than "..." See? Tedious!). While we're fans of splitting grammatical hairs and clearly make our own share of errors from time to time, it's hardly as embarrassing as this conspicuous mistake printed in student agendas distributed to almost three hundred Toronto schools: as reported......

Good newspaper headlines are concise, descriptive, clear, and––occasionally, just occasionally––nothing short of genius. And then there's "Man who stole car with baby faces more charges." Originally published yesterday on The Star's website without a clarifying subheadline, the wonderfully ambiguous title evokes at least three possible scenarios when left by itself: 1. The man and baby stole the car together. As infants are both prone to fits of uncontrollable rage, and are technically able to buy......