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     Mark J. Price: Pardon the grammar from this mammer jammer

     Akron Beacon Journal via Yahoo News· 2 years ago

     There's nothing like making a grammatical error in an item about grammatical errors. We recently...

2. • Words fail us, and this writer knows it. How she is bringing people to the (grammar) table

     USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 7 months ago

     Ellen Jovin is not the grammar police. She's more like a grammar guru, a gentle, nonjudgmental guide who knows English isn't etched into a linguistic stone, rigid and unchangeable. Instead, ...

3. • South Bend featured prominently in Ellen Jovin's Grammar Table book 'Rebel with a Clause'

     South Bend Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 years ago

     Back on a hot day in the summer of 2019, author and communications teacher Ellen Jovin sat at a folding table she'd set up outside South Bend's Chocolate Café on South Michigan Street. As Jovin ...

4. • How the economy is like junior high

     Shreveport Times | The Times via Yahoo News· 2 years ago

     The last time the stock market had such a terrible January-through-June performance, I was in junior high. The year was 1970. For me, that was a time of pimples, polyester clothes, bad hair, ...

5. • Abbreviations, acronyms and 57ARS

     Times Record News via Yahoo News· 1 year ago

     Remember abbreviations? They’ve been eclipsed by acronyms. Acronyms are stronger. Abbreviations are wimpy abbreviated versions of the real thing. Acronyms can take on lives of their own. Consider ...

6. • Readers sound off on war, learning to read and David Muir’s suits

     NY Daily News via Yahoo News· 6 months ago

     Investment in destruction may be the end of us Flushing: History is studied by the conquests of some group over another. We stupidly glorify the men who led the conquests, and without much emotion ...