Linguistic Recommendations and Reminders
Our Linguistic Recommendations and Reminders address frequent language problems in French and English. For example, is this word an Anglicism? What letters should I capitalize? Or, how do you write phone numbers or the time and date? Not only are they easy to consult, but they also provide clear answers to these and many other questions. Subscribe to be automatically notified of each new recommendation or reminder!
Linguistic Recommendations
The Linguistic Recommendations propose solutions to contentious language issues. They help standardize elements such as vocabulary, spelling and usage in texts produced by the Government of Canada.
- American dollar
- Audit and derived terms
- Canadian dollar
- Date: how to write the date
- First Nation(s)
- Government of Canada
- How to write postal addresses in Canada
- Internet and Net
- Inuit and Inuk
- Names of Canadian universities
- Names of government departments
- New French spelling
- Public service
- Telephone numbers
- Twitter terminology
- Web
Linguistic Reminders
The Linguistic Reminders show you how to avoid certain common language mistakes. The Linguistic Reminders and the Rappels linguistiques deal with language problems specific to each language. As a result, the English and French reminders do not cover the same topics.
Reminders in English
- a couple of
- affect vs. effect
- Alternatives to he or she
- amount vs. number
- biweekly (bimonthly, biannual)
- cannot vs. can not
- Capitals in titles of office or rank
- Comma after the year
- Commas with adjective clauses
- Commas with adverb clauses
- Comma use with such as
- Compass points
- continual vs. continuous
- could have, not could of
- e.g. vs. i.e.
- et cetera and etc.
- extranet and intranet
- Faulty comparisons New
- feel bad vs. feel badly
- fewer vs. less
- flounder vs. founder
- further vs. farther
- in regard to, with regard to and as regards
- its or it's
- lie vs. lay
- maybe vs. may be
- me, myself and I
- over and more than
- per cent and its symbol (%)
- Punctuation with closing quotation marks
- regardless vs. irregardless
- seldom
- Serial commas
- supposedly vs. supposably
- Tenses in conditional sentences
- that vs. which
- the question as to whether
- there, their and they're
- Time of day
- Verb agreement with none
- When to capitalize the seasons
- who and whom
- who's and whose
- you and I vs. you and me
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