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Friday, May 10, 2024

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  Reflections on Mother’s Day                              By                   Howard Richler   Mother’s Day arose in the early par...
Thursday, December 1, 2022

Political Correctness in Word Games

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  When does word sensitivity become word oversensitivity?                                        by                                Howar...
Friday, May 6, 2022

THE WORDS OF THE MAMAS & THE PAPAS

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 T                               Why mama and papa?                                               by                                   ...
Thursday, February 10, 2022

Valentines-Falling in Love

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                       The rise and fall of love                                            by                                    Ho...

Valentines-Kiss

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              A kiss is not always just a kiss                                  by                                             Howar...
Friday, February 4, 2022

BLACK ENGLISH

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                                     Celebrating Black English                                                          by              ...
Monday, October 4, 2021

HOW 'HAPPY' MORPHED INTO HOMOSEXUAL AND 'FAGGOT' LOST ITS STICK-INESS

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  HOW 'HAPPY' MORPHED INTO HOMOSEXUAL AND 'FAGGOT' LOST ITS STICK-INESS by HOWARD RICHLER ___________________________ Howard...
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Howard Richler is a Canadian language columnist. He wrote the weekly Speaking of Language column in The Montreal Gazette from 1992 to 2006 and his Word Nerd column has appeared since 2006 in The Senior Times. Howard also regularly writes for other newspapers and magazines, including Globe & Mail, and National Post, and the legal magazine Lexpert. He has appeared on countless radio and television shows, including All in a Weekend, Pamela Wallin Live and Richler Inc. In between all this, he has written seven books The Dead Sea Scroll Palindromes Take My Words –A Wordaholic’s Guide to the English Language A Bawdy Language – How a Second-Rate Language Slept Its Way to the Top Global Mother Tongue – The Eight Flavours of English Can I Have a Word With You? Strange Bedfellows: The Private Lives of Words. His book From Happy to Homosexual and other mysterious semantic shifts was published by Ronsdale Press 2013 and his latest book Wordplay:Arranged and Deranged Wit was published by Ronsdale in April 2016.
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