‘Organizing Our Marvellous Neighbours’

Last week, ABC Radio National’s linguistics program Lingua Franca interviewed me about Canadian English and Organizing Our Marvellous Neighbours. Episode page Download via iTunes

http://en-ca.org/new/#T2011.11.21

Esteemed colleague Grant Barrett interviewed me for the Copyediting podcast on the numerous vagaries of Canadian spelling. (No, you do not have “a tonne” of work to do.)

http://www.copyediting.com/wordpress/?p=462

Yes, we’re joining the 21st century: Organizing Our Marvellous Neighbours: How to Feel Good About Canadian English is now available as an ePub electronic book, readable on your computer, on an...

http://en-ca.org/new/#T2010.04.14

In a week or so, Organizing Our Marvellous Neighbours will be reissued in actual ePub format so you can read it on any E-book reader that isn’t a Kindle. (Yes, including the iPad, eventually.) ...

http://en-ca.org/new/#T2010.03.08

Today I sent V1.1 of Organizing Our Marvellous Neighbours. It was less trouble than I thought, and I needed a corrected version for deposit with Library and Archives Canada. All purchasers of...

http://en-ca.org/new/#T2009.03.23

I was interviewed several weeks ago by Patrick Cox for his enjoyable podcast on language, The World in Words. The interview is finally up: Blog entry At iTunes Transcript coming up soonish....

http://en-ca.org/new/#T2009.03.12

After working – off and on, it goes without saying – for a month and a half trying to incorporate corrections to Version 1.0 for publication as a Version 1.1, I give up. Why? There’s barel...

http://en-ca.org/new/#T2009.02.23

PAIKIN: And joining us now… Joe Clark, author of Organizing Our Marvellous Neighbours. Good of you to join us at TVO. How are you? ME: I’m fine, thank you. — Well, I want to talk to y...

http://en-ca.org/new/TVO-transcript.html

Audio and video are now posted from my appearance on The Agenda with Steve Paikin: Download audio (MP3) or load at iTunes Load video at iTunes Corrections, a transcript, and the Story of ...

http://en-ca.org/new/#T2009.02.02

I’m scheduled to appear on TVOntario’s current-affairs show The Agenda with Steve Paikin tomorrow (2009.01.30). The usual airtime is 20:00, with various repeats later and overnight. The epis...

http://en-ca.org/new/#T2009.01.29

Now, whatever could it mean? UPDATE (2009.02.23): It means I thought they’d be using the other set and I showed up with winter boots. Steve lent me his own shoes!

http://en-ca.org/new/#T2009.01.26

I applied for the Dictionary Society of North America’s Laurence Urdang–DSNA Award . I learned last night that somebody else got it. This seals the fate of Organizing Our Marvellous Neighbou...

http://en-ca.org/new/#T2009.01.20

Working on Version 1.1 of Organizing Our Marvellous Neighbours, which all current owners will receive. This is trickier than I thought. Radio segment coming up next week.

http://en-ca.org/new/#T2009.01.13

Carried out my first under-table handoff of a CD-ROM copy of the book to a paying reader. Version 1.1 coming in a few days, ostensibly.

http://en-ca.org/new/#T2008.12.18

On 2008.11.20, I appeared on the Radio Canada International program The Link; my interview did not make the resulting podcast. But, I discovered a year later, you can listen to it via a Flash p...

http://en-ca.org/new/#T2008.11.20

…in an article in the Toronto Star. According to an academic from my alma mater, Canadians have a superiority complex over Americans and the Internet exposes all readers to denationalized Engl...

http://en-ca.org/new/#T2008.11.08

Ostensibly, OOMN will be covered in next week’s print issue.

http://www.eyeweekly.com/blog/post/44666

Mention in the Tubby. Mostly about Leslieville, but still. More about the photo shoot. (We did it behind the Hell’s Angels!)

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/toronto/archive/2008/10/29/my-toronto-joe-clark.aspx

A blizzard of new photos of Canadian spelling in the wild , and a blizzard of press interviews that will, one hopes, finally garner some coverage.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/joeclark/collections/72157608422633581/

Book has been reviewed “on the Torontoist.”

http://torontoist.com/2008/10/joe_clark_organizing_our_marvellous_neighbours.php

Results from literary award-winners (Excel worksheet only ).

http://en-ca.org/data/#literary

Spellchecker test sentences and a couple o’ clunkers.

http://en-ca.org/new/

I’m living up to my pledge to publish my source data …slowly. And I’m starting with something easy – spellchecker test sentences .

http://en-ca.org/data/

I have an immediate goal of 100 sales and a later goal of 550. I’m at about 55 now – and you all have my thanks. I also ginned up a single-column iPhone version if anybody wants it. A few re...

http://en-ca.org/new/#T2008.10.04

Finally. Buy this electronic book on Canadian English spelling for $17.83 (Canadian)

http://en-ca.org/buy/