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    National Grammar Day: Well, La Di Da (or is it “Dah”?)

    MARCH 4, 2013 10:20AM

    By Ramona Grigg


    Topics: rules, writing, punctuation, grammar, national grammar day

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    • 17 Ratings
    • 903 Views
    • 16 Comments
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    Prepositions in the Age of Sequestration

    FEBRUARY 28, 2013 1:52PM

    By Walter Blevins


    Topics: prepositions, grammar, sequestration, government

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    • 17 Ratings
    • 3434 Views
    • 20 Comments
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    Language Wars: AP Accepts Modern Usage of 'Hopefully'

    APRIL 18, 2012 11:32AM

    By 500words


    Topics: ap stylebook, language wars, language nerds, hopefully, grammar, ap stylebook, english usage

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    • 38 Ratings
    • 1971 Views
    • 56 Comments
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    Prefixed and Suffixed: The Grammar of Our Lives

    JUNE 5, 2011 9:06AM

    By Jerry DeNuccio


    Topics: prefix, suffix, life stages, metaphor, grammar

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    • 48 Ratings
    • 4727 Views
    • 173 Comments
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    How to Make Me Flinch

    MAY 13, 2010 5:22PM

    By L in the Southeast


    Topics: grammar, writing speaking, verbs, nominative case, objective case, who care? i do, dammit!

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    • 17 Ratings
    • 2575 Views
    • 24 Comments
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    Grammar police take on Twitter. Good luck with that.

    APRIL 29, 2010 12:48AM

    By Anne Shulock


    Topics: cops, punctuation, grammar, twitter

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    • 74 Ratings
    • 3371 Views
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    What Happened to Speling, Grammer and Geografie?

    DECEMBER 23, 2009 3:35AM

    By john blumenthal


    Topics: chico marx, napoleon, brahms, alexander the great, books, comedy, sports, media, michigan, brazil, gps, geography, grammar, spelling, spelling bee, school district, pitcher, picture, alright, katmandu, nascar, burger king, dangling participle, gerund, visigoths, neanderthal man

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    • 5 Ratings
    • 3297 Views
    • 7 Comments
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    The Best Four-letter Word

    NOVEMBER 12, 2008 7:50PM

    By Susan Mihalic


    Topics: grammar, usage, writing, arts colony, fire-breathing editor bitch on wheels

    • Editor's Pick
    • 30 Ratings
    • 5955 Views
    • 40 Comments
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    Parsing Palin: Sarah's Statistics 37-19-32

    OCTOBER 6, 2008 8:27PM

    By Caveat Canem Croceum


    Topics: barack obama, palin, mccain, satire, comedy, republicans, democrats, syntax, grammar, statistics, election, politics

    • Editor's Pick
    • 8 Ratings
    • 1553 Views
    • 27 Comments
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    Grammatical garbage - a waste of words?

    SEPTEMBER 19, 2008 2:08PM

    By Olga Sheean


    Topics: language, linguistics, grammar, americanisms

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    • 18 Ratings
    • 5084 Views
    • 33 Comments
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    Verbing Weirds Language

    SEPTEMBER 9, 2008 6:26PM

    By The Biblio Files


    Topics: books, language, linguistics, english, spelling, grammar

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