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April 03, 2008 03:53 PM EDT -- Our subject today is a pair of rather confusing words: uninterested and disinterested . According to the Oxford Dictionary of Current English , the word uninterested means simply, "not . . . more
April 10, 2008 01:25 PM EDT -- [ Listen using RealAudio ][ Download and listen to mp3 ] "I feel bad ." "I feel badly ." Which is correct? Today we discuss this common pitfall when writing . . . more
April 17, 2008 07:36 PM EDT -- [ Listen using RealPlayer ][ Download and listen to mp3 ] Jeff Deck wanted to make a difference. When the 2002 graduate of Dartmouth College attended his five-year reunion, he mingled with . . . more
August 30, 2007 04:31 PM EDT -- Have you ever gone to the supermarket and been lured into the express checkout aisle because you have Twelve Items or Less? Strictly speaking, it turns out that sign confuses less with fewer. The words . . . more
March 13, 2008 01:02 PM EDT -- [ Listen to streaming audio ][ Download and listen to the mp3 ]   "Do we have plans next Saturday?" "The 15 th ?" "No, no - I mean next Saturday. The . . . more
Grammar Grater: In Effect
by Luke Taylor
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July 26, 2007 03:57 PM EDT -- A few years ago, a lot of people started using the word “impact” in place of the word affect, as in, “How will accounting be impacted by this decision?” It seemed another attempt . . . more
December 20, 2007 04:15 PM EST -- In the past few weeks, Grammar Grater received a couple of messages from listeners about the use of the words bring and take . There actually is a grammatical difference between these words, but it's . . . more
March 07, 2008 09:49 AM EST -- [ Listen to Audio Stream ][ Download and listen to mp3 ] Daylight saving time has certainly received its share of attention, given last year's date change in North America and the resulting . . . more
July 10, 2008 03:02 PM EDT -- [ Listen using RealPlayer ] [ Download and listen to MP3 ] [ Subscribe to podcast ] Catherine from Edina, Minnesota, sent this message to us:   "Please address the word preventive . . . more
June 12, 2008 03:32 PM EDT -- [ Listen Using RealAudio ] [ Download and listen to mp3 ] [ Subscribe to podcast ] This week's topic was suggested by Abby, a listener from New Bedford, Massachusetts. Abby wrote this to us: . . . more
August 23, 2007 05:15 PM EDT --   Sometimes there are two complete thoughts in a sentence that go well together, but the chemistry doesn't seem quite right. Their future together seems shaky. Getting joined in one sentence . . . more
September 27, 2007 01:03 PM EDT -- Not too long ago, my friend Josh spotted an advertisement that went to print with a misused apostrophe, so he cut it out and mailed it to me. The headline read, "Train like the Pro's." . . . more
January 03, 2008 01:18 PM EST -- Like music, language is a living organism that's always growing, evolving and changing. To that point, I recently a newspaper article that contained this sentence: The research group . . . more
September 20, 2007 05:41 PM EDT -- Sometimes there are things in the English language that are just, well...icky. One of those things is distinguishing when to use who or whom. There are some tricks that can help with this. Even better, . . . more
October 19, 2007 10:40 AM EDT -- "It's wonderful! It's fantastic! It's the penultimate film of the year!"   Wait a minute...the penultimate film of the year? That's probably supposed to sound . . . more
October 25, 2007 03:27 PM EDT -- On the bus this week, I happened to sit within earshot of a couple avid fishermen who were talking about their reluctance to go out on a windy day. "There were whitecaps on the lake," one of . . . more
March 20, 2008 04:58 PM EDT -- [ Listen using RealAudio ][ Download and listen to the mp3 ] This week, we talked about a popular expression that sometimes gets confused. The topic was suggested to us by Beverly from Franklin, . . . more
April 24, 2008 03:28 PM EDT -- [ Listen using RealPlayer ] [ Download and Listen to MP3 ] [ Subscribe ] This week, we're looking at a linguistic foible that's actually heard quite often in conversational speech in Minnesota. . . . more
May 23, 2008 09:28 AM EDT -- [ Listen using RealAudio ] [ Download and listen to mp3 ] [ Subscribe ] This week's episode of Grammar Grater addresses a topic we've heard so much about in the news. On May 2, Myanmar (also . . . more
June 05, 2008 05:08 PM EDT -- [ Listen Using RealAudio ] [ Download and Listen to mp3 ] [ Subscribe to podcast ] This week's topic on Grammar Grater addresses a couple of words that sound alike and come fairly close in meaning, . . . more
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