Communications Strategy- First Bank appoints Olayinka Ijabiyi as group head for marketing and corporate communications - TheCable May 1, 2026
- Qualicum School Board presented with draft communications strategy - Parksville Qualicum News May 1, 2026
- Pitch Update: Asahi, Coca-Cola, Gallo, Lily’s Kitchen and more… - PR Week UK May 1, 2026
- Ministry rolls out plan to promote national image - Báo VietNamNet May 1, 2026
- The 2026 Lawdragon 100 Global Leaders in Legal Strategy & Consulting - Lawdragon May 1, 2026
- Penn State Health appoints Dara Royer as senior vice president and chief marketing and communications officer - Penn State Health News April 29, 2026
- Comms Strategy When Everything Keeps Changing - The NonProfit Times April 27, 2026
- City hones communications strategy - Traverse City Record-Eagle April 24, 2026
- University Governance
- “Corporatisation and lack of oversight”: University of Sydney at the Parliamentary Inquiry - Honi Soit May 2, 2026
- Thursday, April 30, 2026 - University of Waterloo April 30, 2026
- Nigerian Leaders Behind Growing Cybercrime Among Youths - The Whistler Newspaper April 29, 2026
- Penn Faculty Senate releases document on responsibilities within University shared governance - The Daily Pennsylvanian April 28, 2026
- Regulator to take charge of ANU chancellor recruitment - Times Higher Education April 28, 2026
- Gaurav Gogoi to raise university governance issues in parliament, writes to PMO over NE institutions - MSN April 26, 2026
- President Tebboune: The new and victorious Algeria is steadily moving toward establishing modern university governance based on efficiency and accountability - AL24 News April 25, 2026
- NCKU Tops 2026 CommonWealth University Citizen Award for Sustainability Governance and Social Responsibility - Ncku.edu.tw April 21, 2026
Tag Archives: language
The “trick to ambiguity”
From the great Language Log: Most of the ambiguity contained in normal language use is passed over without any awareness on the audience’s part of the potential for double meanings. If one of the two intended meanings in an ad … Continue reading
Ginormous
Bryan Garner, lawyer and English language usage scholar, on one of my favourite words: A portmanteau is a type of luggage with two separate sections. A portmanteau word is formed by combining the sounds and meanings of two different words. Linguists … Continue reading
Changing Norms
Reuben Fischer-Baum of Jezebel has made a wonderfully entertaining GIF that presents six decades of the most popular names for girls, “state by state.” He writes: Baby naming generally follows a consistent cycle: A name springs up in some region … Continue reading
Dogma versus Rules of Thumb
Language Log is an always stimulating group blog on language and linguistics, with posts that range from earworms and usage advice to research tools and sociolinguistics. The comments sections are as illuminating as the posts themselves. A recent post called … Continue reading
The Art of Scolding, cont’d.
“We have somehow not successfully received your professional-development documentation,” a Dean’s Office colleague wrote me in an email early in my career at Kwantlen. The sentence both charmed and alarmed me, especially the phrase somehow not successfully received, which seemed … Continue reading
On National Grammar Day: A love letter to language
It’s fitting that I should write this post on National Grammar Day. Choosing and arranging the right words with the right endings in the right order with the right punctuation isn’t even close to the most interesting thing I could … Continue reading