In proper English, when in a restaurant, parents with a toddler should ask a waitron for a booster seat, not for a booster.

A piece of phenolic cookware essentially means its handles are phenolic, which translates into plain English as "heat resistant handle(s)".

Since when has the word "staunch" become a negative one?

"Stuffy" should be negative, but should "staunch" too?

The United Church of Canada is "the second largest Canadian Christian denomination after the Roman Catholic Church."

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Church_of_Canada .

I'm rueful that the life of us human beings in big cities has insidiously become so busy.

I've gotten used to stock Valleyspeak words such as "like" and "totally".

It's common knowledge now that smoking cigarettes sullies one's lung, throat, and mouth.

Do troubles ever abate in life?

"The Everlasting" means God.

"Decimation" is an interesting word.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimation_(Roman_army) .

I for one can sense that many, if not the better part of, Canadian consumers are sort of maxed out.

Does the French word "bâton" sound prettier than its English counterpart, "baton"?

Yes, probably a little prettier, IMHO.

Will there be jocund years?

I for one don't like to see that the main outstanding debris of the American and Canadian civilization will be large houses and large cars, when they are going to decline inevitably in the future.

Well. Knock on wood.

There are so many pieces of information that get bruited about, day in and day out, on social networks.

How much time of mine are they worth?

Vacuum cleaners' suction is so effective.

Many computer algorithms are heuristic by nature.

Examples include Depth-First Search (DFS) and Breadth-First Search (BFS).

A carousal is a carousal. A ritual is a ritual.

The finance industry's activities in the U.S. always belongs to the former, it seems.

Spirituality is pivotal to a person, I suppose.

What does tabloidism do to the society?

For a period of time, I had been a wet blanket. :-)

An $8000 judgement isn't very very much, but one such judgement per month is hell.

Some decisions in life reverberate long.

So people should be careful not to take too much liberties.

The folding (step?) stools sold at Dollarama are inexpensive but not very good.

There are so many time bombs in life.

It's wrong not to be self-confident, where it's wrong to be hubristic.

"Débris" doesn't sound much prettier than "debris", right?

Heuristic teaching methods are used to a great extent in Canadian universities, I suppose.

Pubs typically are for a carouse, not for a conversation.

Canine friends are such a good name for dogs.

Well, there are boarding schools, and there are boarding kennels. :-)

Children are jocund by nature because they are happy-go-lucky and their shoulders carry no responsibility.

When a government is no longer trusty in people's minds, what will people do?

Now I know that wellingtons, or wellies, are a commoner name for rubber boots.

Do bountiful compliments such as "I'm so proud of you" towards a child generate too much hubris in him or her?

How long will the international accord stay in Asia?

Potential dangers are always there, right?

Russia has contributed magnificently to Arts, Science, Engineering, and military of the world.

But it has also strong-armed the world.

Chick lit is always chic.

As a matter of fact, China used to be blackballed internationally.

There are so many chances in life one's dream gets blown to smithereens.

I guess the better part of Canadians are more happy-go-lucky than I am.

It seems to me that Americans and Canadians are head over heels in love with words.

Oftentimes I am in my element at a bookstore rather than in a library.

I have the luck of the Irish to live in Canada of 21st century. What am I gonna do with it?