Archive : October 2011

Fun with geography trivia

  Here’s some geography trivia with which to dazzle and amaze your friends: • More than half the coastline of the entire United States is in Alaska. • The Amazon rainforest produces mo...

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Making fun of English spellings

  George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was passionate about spelling reform and left a substantial legacy to this cause hoping a new phonetic alphabet would be adopted. Each letter of this “Shavian” alphabet, devised by...

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A ghost case of Hallowe’en past

  Winnipeg is noted for some of the strangest ghost tales ever to be told, and the relating of these encounters with eerie spectres is usually associated with Hallowe’en. Perhaps the strangest of the strange was the Free...

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Memorable moments from the world of sports

  In baseball, all that agitated stomping around in front of the umpire is good for a laugh. But have you ever wondered if a major league  manager or player has ever won an argument with the ump? Well, it tur...

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English and its crazy spellings

  Immediately following the column on “mic,” I heard from M. “When we start to spell ‘enough’ the way it sounds,” M wrote, “then I’ll worry about ‘mic’ a...

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