Tag: linguistics
group name: grammargrater
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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 . . .
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April 10, 2008 01:25 PM EDT --
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"I feel bad ."
"I feel badly ."
Which is correct?
Today we discuss this common pitfall when writing . . .
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March 13, 2008 01:02 PM EDT --
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"Do we have plans next Saturday?"
"The 15 th ?"
"No, no - I mean next Saturday. The . . .
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March 07, 2008 09:49 AM EST --
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Daylight saving time has certainly received its share of attention, given last year's date change in North America and the resulting . . .
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July 10, 2008 03:02 PM EDT --
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Catherine from Edina, Minnesota, sent this message to us:
"Please address the word preventive . . .
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June 12, 2008 03:32 PM EDT --
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This week's topic was suggested by Abby, a listener from New Bedford, Massachusetts. Abby wrote this to us: . . .
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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 . . .
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March 20, 2008 04:58 PM EDT --
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This week, we talked about a popular expression that sometimes gets confused. The topic was suggested to us by Beverly from Franklin, . . .
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April 24, 2008 03:28 PM EDT --
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This week, we're looking at a linguistic foible that's actually heard quite often in conversational speech in Minnesota. . . .
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February 21, 2008 01:27 PM EST --
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When paramedics are helping a patient, communications must be clear and precise. So we thought it was very important when we got this message from . . .
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July 03, 2008 12:12 PM EDT --
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This week on Grammar Grater, our topic was inspired by this note from Lee in Moorhead, Minnesota:
"I . . .
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September 25, 2008 04:59 PM EDT --
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Episode 65: Its and It's
Today we're going to try and settle the score between two words: it's and its . These two words . . .
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October 23, 2008 01:34 PM EDT --
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Episode 69: Histrionics
This week on Grammar Grater, we're taking a question from a listener in Madison, Wisconsin. Rick writes: . . .
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July 24, 2008 02:44 PM EDT --
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Today's episode of Grammar Grater is about the expression, time is of the essence . This topic was inspired . . .
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July 31, 2008 02:25 PM EDT --
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This week's topic is a figure of speech known as synecdoche . Gordon Jarvie, in the Bloomsbury Grammar . . .
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October 02, 2008 09:41 AM EDT --
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Today on Grammar Grater, we're taking a question from Joan, a listener in Plymouth, Minnesota. Joan writes: . . .
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October 09, 2008 05:07 PM EDT --
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This week's episode is inspired by a question we got from Ray, a listener in Saskatoon. Our topic is . . .
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November 13, 2008 04:13 PM EST --
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This week on Grammar Grater, our topic is inspired by a message from Patricia, a listener in Orlando, Fla. . . .
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August 14, 2008 12:29 PM EDT --
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The Olympics are in full swing in Beijing , China. Not long ago, the proper name for the capital of China was . . .
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September 04, 2008 06:42 PM EDT --
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This week on Grammar Grater, we're riffing from the headlines and having a look at the word delegate . . . .
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