Montreal Gazette
🏢 Postmedia
📍 QC
May 20, 2026
· 3 min read
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Opinion: No ham in hamburger and other English language oddities
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Opinion: No ham in hamburger and other English language oddities
A slim chance is the same as a fat chance, yet a wise man and a wise guy are completely different animals.
Native speakers rarely stop to consider how illogical our spoken words can be, simply because we are so used to them, writes Terry Vollum. (Michelle Berg / Saskatoon StarPhoenix)
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Terry Vollum
May 20, 2026 at 7:00 p.m.
Of all the world’s languages, English is arguably the richest in vocabulary, boasting at least a quarter of a million distinct words and phrases. It is one of the most universally spoken and writte…
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