Jim Baumann
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Grammar Moses: Yule make Santa happy if you don't spell his name 'Clause'Dec 23, 2017 12:00 am - It's Christmas Eve, and you might be sweating over how to get on Santa's good side in one short day. In my house, Santa's naughty and nice lists have a firm line of dema...
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Grammar Moses: My opposition to verse versus versusDec 17, 2017 12:00 am - It's not every day that I get a grammar complaint from a sports writer. The gripes I usually get from them relate to my prudish stance on swearing in print — whether it ...
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Palatine bartender wins Daily Herald's Best Martini in the 'Burbs contestDec 11, 2017 12:00 am - The third time was a charm Monday night for Joshua Olson, whose jalapeño lemon drop won the Daily Herald's annual Best Martini in the 'Burbs contest at Drink Nightclub i...
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Grammar Moses: Home on the range, where deer and antelope, but not fish, playDec 09, 2017 12:00 am - Perhaps this advice is ill-timed, given its proximity to Christmas, but here goes: Cardinal Blaise Cupich's goodwill mission to Puerto Rico is a noble endeavor, and from...
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Grammar Moses: Dot your i's, cross your t's and mind your p's and q'sDec 02, 2017 12:00 am - Kate Gingold wrote to tell me a recent column on how to employ commas when addressing holiday cards reminded her of something that's always confused her. "I believe it s...
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Grammar Moses: Don't get overly possessive during the holidaysNov 25, 2017 12:00 am - Now that you've had a couple of days to digest your Thanksgiving dinner, here is something else to digest: how to address a greeting card properly. This isn't about etiq...
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Grammar Moses: If I leaped to your defense, would you be angry?Nov 18, 2017 12:00 am - Sometimes, politics takes a back seat to grammar and spelling. And if I'm ever elected president, good grammar will be my top priority. Jim Papak of Streamwood wrote thi...
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Grammar Moses: The best advice ever given to me was to buy a dictionaryNov 11, 2017 12:00 am - I was sifting through some old papers the other day and happened upon a letter my boss had written me after my summer internship with the then-weekly Herald newspapers i...
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Grammar Moses: Introducing one-offs. What are your favorites?Nov 04, 2017 1:00 am - I've come up with a new occasional feature for this column that I'll call "one-offs." While not exactly a double-entendre (more on that toward the end of the column), "o...
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Grammar Moses: A recurring nightmare of the misuse of 'reoccur'Oct 28, 2017 1:00 am - Emilie of Elk Grove Village writes: "I read in today's paper one of my biggest pet peeves - the use of 'reoccur' in an AP writer's article about the shingles virus. Sinc...