Katherine Barber described the words in the dictionary as like her children and insisted that she should love them all equallyKatherine Barber was embarrassed in the way that only a prepubescent girl could be. She had not long arrived in Canada from England with her family when a schoolteacher looking over her work noted that she had “forgotten her period”. For her, the dot at the end of a sentence was a full stop; a period was something else altogether. “There are all sorts of things like that, that make Canadian-English quite distinctive,” she said. SponsoredDifferent words and their meanings, both the way they vary

Source: The Times May 21, 2021 16:06 UTC