It appears that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has a little scandal on his hands because of his habit of using British spellings in some of his official documents.
I'm not sure if I should mock the Canadians for such a lame scandal, or envy them for having such a wholesome scandal.
No fishermen are getting murdered from this.
Mark Carney says that amid a fundamental shift to the nature of globalisation, his government will catalyse the growth in both the public and private sector.
But Canadian linguists say that’s a problem.
Language experts have called out the Canadian prime minister’s growing “utilisation” of British spellings in key documents – including the recent federal budget and a press release issued following a meeting with Donald Trump.
Carney, who served as the governor of the bank of England for seven years, appears to have run afoul of Canadian linguistic norms, returning to his home country with a penchant for using ‘s’ instead of ‘z’ – a hallmark of British spellings.
In an open letter chastising the prime minister, six linguists have asked his office, the Canadian government and parliament to stick to Canadian English spelling, “which is the spelling they consistently used from the 1970s to 2025”.
I'm wondering if this is all an elaborate prank.
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