Jim Baumann
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Grammar Moses: Words gone wild!Aug 05, 2017 1:00 am - You might recall a recent column in which a priest "consummated" a marriage at the altar of his church. I'm sure that gave a few of you the vapors. James Johnson of McHe...
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Grammar Moses: I wish I may, I wish I might ... finish this column tonightJul 29, 2017 1:00 am - Tom Peterson of Elgin, who spent his career writing news copy for TV and radio, asked me for the proper usage of "farther" and "further" and "might" and "may." As Bill C...
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Grammar Moses: Your exasperation doesn't make things worseJul 22, 2017 1:00 am - A national newspaper that shall remain nameless carried a story last month about pet obesity. Tim Froehling of Palatine was a bit exasperated by it. The story quoted a v...
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Grammar Moses: I'm sure this minister was a consummate professionalJul 15, 2017 1:00 am - The Rev. Paul Palmer of Arlington Heights surely knows what it's like to elicit a gasp in church. And what it's like to elicit a gasp after the fact, whether it's the mi...
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Grammar Moses: I'm sure this minister was a consummate professionalJul 15, 2017 1:00 am - The Rev. Paul Palmer of Arlington Heights surely knows what it's like to elicit a gasp in church. And what it's like to elicit a gasp after the fact, whether it's the mi...
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Grammar Moses: When instructions are more funny than helpfulJul 08, 2017 1:00 am - Mine was the kind of dad who took whatever it was out of the box, cast aside the instruction manual and built it the way it should be built, no matter what "it" was. At ...
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Grammar Moses: What will a fine day cost me?Jul 01, 2017 1:00 am - I was talking to a neighbor recently about residing his house, and I realized that "residing" with an S sound and "residing" with a Z sound could cause some confusion if...
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Grammar Moses: What if it is etched in stone?Jun 24, 2017 1:00 am - Back when monks copied the Bible by hand with florid calligraphy on sheets of vellum, it was a pretty big deal to make a mistake. When stone carvers of ancient Rome made...
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Grammar Moses: Befuddled by contemporaneous unwisdom?Jun 17, 2017 1:00 am - The legal tornado that surrounds President Donald Trump can be viewed as a learning experience in a number of ways, including as a vocabulary lesson. Listen closely to S...
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Grammar Moses: Does anybody really know what 'day' it is?Jun 10, 2017 1:00 am - Sometimes the most innocuous-sounding questions turn out to be the biggest head-scratchers. Gary Hayden of Lombard asked: "I once saw an article about a family in which ...