Table of contents (V1.1)

• The right reason to write a book

  Anger.

• This just in: Canada exists

  And so does our spelling.

• The problem in a nutshell: -ize, -our, and -ll-

  Learn those three and you’ve solved half the problem.

• Some real research into real spellings

  In which I pore through 7 million words of electronic text and thousands of pages of books.

• The Coquitlam effect

  Why your spellchecker won’t help you.

• Advice from the style mavens

  Ancient, inconsistent prescriptivism.

• A skeptical view

  Should Canadian English exist?

• Extras

  • Acknowledgements.

  • Copyright.

  • Colophon.

  • Contact.

  • Bibliography and sources.

  • Errata

• Canadian spelling cheatsheet