The Essential Guide to Quebec for Translators

Part I: Quebec’s Language Law We’ve sifted through our thousands of past tweets to compile this Essential Guide to Quebec for Translators. We will be posting it gradually over the next weeks by subject theme. Part I is about Quebec’s Charter of the French Language,...

Dining out in America

Two tourists visiting the United States are sitting in a restaurant. The “small bruschetta” on the appetizer menu looks good, so one of them orders it. Imagine their surprise when an entire baguette shows up, cut into big hunks of bread and smothered in melted...

False Plurals in English

It is tempting to think of plurals as a simple concept that is always the same in every language. After all, it’s just a matter of counting. Once you get to two, you need a plural. But English behaves otherwise! Some English words look plural but are singular in...