The word 'canon' is correct and usable in written English.
Canon can be used to refer to a set of rules, standards, or principles accepted as authoritative. For example, "The canon of classical literature has changed considerably over time."
"That is what this book is about – about how we live up against the canon and how we survive, how we make art against the odds".
If the run continues, and the film achieves similar success in Anglophile foreign territories, expect producers to look with renewed interest at the Hardy canon.
After we became friends, he took me to an awards ceremony in a theatre which, a year before, had staged the entire canon of Miller plays.
"We have always been up against the canon, and the canon is traditionally male," she says.
The canon, chaplain and dean of St Paul's have all resigned.
For those who don't work over Christmas, spending the extended break with streaming sites also offers the chance to catch up on what you may have missed this year (I'm lining up Sons of Anarchy), or shows that may hang over you as a shameful omission from the canon (look, The West Wing is really long, OK?).
When a bare chest is pressed against a canon (as in Ladislav Bielik's 'End of the Prague Spring'), the stark inequality seems unfair.
I think you've done a great job with the nine episodes and I hope you complete the whole canon of the Wallander books, so it's clearly a role you enjoy playing?
Steve John Shepherd has emerged as the rumour-mill's favourite to take the role, but consider this: the fuss over Peter Capaldi's casting led it to being laid down in canon that, yes, a Timelord could change gender.
Not only do the tracks from new album Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action slot seamlessly into this exuberant canon, some of them could've been written especially for the event: Stand On The Horizon, an ode to the romance of unreachable distances, is full of North Sea references and Evil Eye even contains a knowing West Coast synth whine as an (unintentional) nod to Snoop.
As the Anglican chaplain living in Abu Dhabi, a former chaplain in Kuwait and a canon of Bahrain Cathedral, I would like to address your editorial on Christian persecution (26 December).
