This is a word that’s still quite commonly misused, no doubt because of its deceptive appearance. It looks for all the world like it ought to mean “undeterred” or “confident” or even ...

They are on the list of 16 words and expressions that should be banished from the English language, according to Lake Superior State University's annual list of misused, overused and generally ...

Once it was poltroon. This prompted me to think of all those words that ought to be rescued from the penumbra of obscurity. After all, I spend so much of my time railing against cliché ...

I have my own list of seven words (in some cases phrases) I’d like to see banned not just from network TV, but from ever being uttered in public anywhere again. While they may not be as ...

CBC Ottawa compiled a small list of words, submitted by readers and some of our journalists who are Black, Indigenous and people of colour. We ran some of the words by anti-racism and language ...