Jonathan appears regularly as The Word Guy on CBC Radio 1’s province-wide program North by Northwest, educating and entertaining about all aspects of the English language. He has published a book-length version of his collected segments, Tales from the Word Guy.
Poetry (April 2024)Puns (March 2024)Full Meal Deal (February 2024)Beginning Letters (January 2024)Word Chocolates (December 2023)Double Trouble (November 2023)More Words Gone Wrong (October 2023)Math Words (September 2023)Colour Words (August 2023)False Friends (July 2023)Words and Music (June 2023)Pronouns (May 2023)Uncertain English (April 2023)Distinguishables (March 2023)Awesome Amazing Superlatives (February 2023)Words of Greetings and Leavings (January 2023)Inflationary Language Tribute to Sheryl Mackay (December 2022)Puns (November 2022)Noah Webster (October 2022)One-letter-words (September 2022)Sentences (August 2022)English Place Names (July 2022)Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary (June 2022)Nym Words (May 2022)Clipping Words (March 2022)Typos (February 2022)Prosody and Metre (January 2022)Punctuation (December 2021)Confusibles (November 2021)French in English (Norman Conquest aftermath) (October 2021)Jargon (September 2021)The Great Vowel Shift (August 2021)Crash Blossoms (July 2021)Bird Words (June 2021)Workhorse Words (May 2021)Brand Names (April 2021)Word Origins (March 2021)Sports Words (February 2021)Animal Words (January 2021)A Box of Word Chocolates (December 2020)Number-Based Words (November 2020)Lost Words (October 2020)Spelling Reform (August 2020)Pet Peeves (July 2020)The Story of Scrabble (May 2020)Good Words (April 2020)Internet Age Words (April 2020) What is Wit – Part 1 (March 2020) Asymmetrical Words (February 2020) Word Cousins (January 2020)Short Words (December 2019)Shakespeare (November 2019)Collective Nouns (October 2019)Bad Words (September 2019)Euphemisms (August 2019) Diacritical Marks (July 2019) Word Order (June 2019)Capitalization (April 2019)Rhymes (March 2019)Cliches (February 2019)Discourse Markers (January 2019)Neologisms (December 2018)Alphabet Origins (October 2018)Contradictions (September 2018)Demonyms (August 2018)Puns and Tom Swifties (July 2018)Words Formed by Mistake (June 2018)Definitions (May 2018)Prepositions (April 2018)Idioms (March 2018)Fossil Words and Absent Antonyms (February 2018)Adjectives and Adverbs (January 2018)Mixed Metaphors and Misplaced Modifiers (December 2017)Verbs! (November 2017)Cataloguing Words (June 2017)What is a word? How many are there? (December 2016)Acronyms, Initialisms, Abbreviations, Portmanteaux (October 2016)