A suprising Canadian medical headline today may shed light on the study of linguistics. An Ontario woman, with no personal ties to the Canadian Maritimes, began speaking with a Newfoundland accent after suffering a stroke.
Following her stroke in 2006, Rose Dore checked herself into a Hamilton, Ont., hospital where staff assumed she was from the [...]
Amazon.com is a company based in the United States, and despite the domain name, so is Amazon.ca. It’s June, and Amazon marketing execs are sitting around thinking about what to feature on their front page. On Amazon.com, the main featured ad is this:
Father’s Day is next week, so this seems like a perfectly appropriate ad. [...]
Okay, now let me get this straight. Pope Benedict XVI makes some comments regarding Islam which make perfect sense in the context of the exclusivity of Christianity. He speaks frankly about much of the violence inherent in Islamic thought, and Muslims are offended. That’s a perfectly reasonable reaction to the Pope’s comments, [...]
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