Jim Baumann
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Grammar Moses: Enjoy some Thanksgiving leftoversNov 28, 2021 4:30 am - I hope you like leftovers! I write this with the promise of leftovers still a week away. As you read this, I will be returning from a column-foraging expedition to Tenne...
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Grammar Moses: Isn't it ironic? I don't think.Nov 21, 2021 12:00 am - It was a little over 26 years ago that Alanis Morissette's groundbreaking "Jagged Little Pill" album was released. I imagine it's been 25 years and 364 days that grammar...
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Grammar Moses: Being accommodative and reserving judgmentNov 13, 2021 12:00 am - Marion Blais saw a story in the Nov. 9 Business section that included the passage “ ... not necessarily being more accommodative, continuing to favor candidates with sev...
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Grammar Moses: Red herrings, necessary verbs and treating people as fractionsNov 07, 2021 4:30 am - This is not a treatise on the horrible Three-fifths Compromise that determined during the Constitutional Convention that slaves should be counted as 60% of a person for ...
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Grammar Moses: Too many Fluffernutter sandwiches will give you a dad bodOct 31, 2021 5:30 am - How serendipitous! Just as I was about to start typing something/anything here today, I received an email from the good folks at Merriam-Webster with the news that they ...
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Policy Corner: We takes matters of sensitivity seriouslyOct 27, 2021 1:00 am - The section on sensitivity in the Daily Herald's guidelines on police and crime reporting is longer than this column. That's a testament to how seriously we take being s...
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Grammar Moses: Of double letters and double meaningsOct 23, 2021 1:00 am - What is it with Southern states and double letters? You have Tennessee and Mississippi, for starters, each of which uses just four different letters. Come on, there is s...
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Grammar Moses: Linguistic anomalies and odditiesOct 17, 2021 5:30 am - Today please enjoy a mailbag column from readers who have observed some pretty weird linguistic anomalies in recent weeks. But first, I have a question for White Sox ma...
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Grammar Moses: Don't put worms in my mouthOct 10, 2021 5:30 am - Homophones happen. Sometimes they're just annoying. Sometimes, well, you have to chuckle. I understand the pressures of calling in a big story on deadline. As a young re...
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Grammar Moses: Are you gutted? Heart-wrenched?Oct 04, 2021 5:30 am - This column is about neither butchery nor medieval surgery, which, face it, are one and the same. It's about feelings and malapropisms. We sure do come up with some inte...