Jim Baumann
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Moretti's bartender's 'Tropical Heat' named Best Martini in the BurbsDec 10, 2018 12:00 am - Adam Wanaski, a bartender at Moretti's Ristorante in Hoffman Estates, loves the beach, and with the lousy winter weather we've been having he wanted to remind people "su...
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Grammar Moses: I racked my brain to come up with this wreck of a columnDec 08, 2018 12:00 am - When the Chicago area was blanketed recently by not only a wet, sloppy snow, but also by power outages, Bev Cherney of Kildeer spent part of the more than 50 hours her h...
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Grammar Moses: Misinformation or disinformation? It's all about intentDec 02, 2018 4:00 am - Just as Time's person of the year isn't necessarily going to be the kind of person you'd want to watch a ballgame or share a beer with, dictionary.com's word of the year...
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Grammar Moses: All's fair to a fare-thee-wellNov 24, 2018 12:00 am - To, two, too. There, their, they're. Sounds like I'm warming up my vocal cords for an aria. These groups of homophones are so popular that T-shirts are made about them. ...
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Grammar Moses: Can a good omen be ominous?Nov 17, 2018 12:00 am - I heard someone say "That's a good omen," and I immediately thought two things: I wonder what the ratio of people referring to bad omens is to people who refer to good o...
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Grammar Moses: How about a little gutter talk?Nov 10, 2018 12:00 am - I wrote recently about homophones. This week, thanks to dedicated reader Linda J., I'll be talking about homographs. As a refresher, a homograph is a word that has the s...
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Grammar Moses: Take these words to the pollsNov 03, 2018 1:00 am - Is everyone excited about the midterm election? I, for one, can't wait until it's over. I feel like I've been forced to watch an endless schoolyard brawl in which the fa...
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Grammar Moses: Hold the homophone ... what did you say?Oct 27, 2018 1:00 am - I was thinking of Abbott and Costello's "Who's on first?" bit the other day and this came to me: Job interviewer: "So, you worked in a cheese factory? What did you do th...
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Grammar Moses: What's worse ... too many nouns or cannibalistic deer?Oct 20, 2018 1:00 am - While cleaning out my moldering list of unread emails, I uncovered some beauties that I wish I'd addressed sooner. "Why are my children exclaiming 'Out of sight!' when ...
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Grammar Moses: Those with sequelae rarely find clotureOct 13, 2018 1:00 am - Do you remember during the James Comey Senate Intelligence Committee hearing when some of us discovered a new word - contemporaneous - and felt the need to pepper our co...