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member name: Luke Taylor
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July 06, 2007 05:01 PM EDT --
Hello, everybody-
Grammar Grater is a new, weekly podcast from Minnesota Public Radio. It's about English words, grammar and usage for the Information Age. Because we live in a time of e-mail, blogs, . . .
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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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October 15, 2009 06:13 PM EDT --
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This week on Grammar Grater, we’re looking a bit deeper into the difference between affect and . . .
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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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June 05, 2009 02:29 PM EDT --
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Perhaps this morning you put on a garment with a zip or zipper , put items into a bag that closed . . .
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June 11, 2009 04:31 PM EDT --
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Last week, Mitzi Gramling, associate general counsel at American Public Media, joined us on the . . .
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December 10, 2009 10:49 AM EST --
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This week’s episode is inspired by a message from Vicki, a listener in Superior, Wisconsin. Vicki . . .
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July 16, 2009 04:58 PM EDT --
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Fowler’s Modern English Usage asserts that, “Lying at the heart of the language is a tendency . . .
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September 20, 2007 05:41 PM EDT --
Sometimes there are things in the English language that are just, well...icky. One of those things is distinguishing when to use who or whom. There are some tricks that can help with this. Even better, . . .
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October 19, 2007 10:40 AM EDT --
"It's wonderful! It's fantastic! It's the penultimate film of the year!"
Wait a minute...the penultimate film of the year? That's probably supposed to sound . . .
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October 25, 2007 03:27 PM EDT --
On the bus this week, I happened to sit within earshot of a couple avid fishermen who were talking about their reluctance to go out on a windy day. "There were whitecaps on the lake," one of . . .
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December 20, 2007 04:15 PM EST --
In the past few weeks, Grammar Grater received a couple of messages from listeners about the use of the words bring and take . There actually is a grammatical difference between these words, but it's . . .
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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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April 17, 2008 07:36 PM EDT --
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Jeff Deck wanted to make a difference.
When the 2002 graduate of Dartmouth College attended his five-year reunion, he mingled with . . .
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June 05, 2008 05:08 PM EDT --
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This week's topic on Grammar Grater addresses a couple of words that sound alike and come fairly close in meaning, . . .
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May 21, 2009 11:40 AM EDT --
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This week on Grammar Grater, we're looking at a tricky word that presents a confusing picture when . . .
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September 03, 2009 02:38 PM EDT --
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This week, producer Brett Baldwin and I travelled to the Minnesota State Fair to talk about a literary . . .
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October 09, 2009 10:29 AM EDT --
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(Repeat episode) This week on Grammar Grater, we're taking a question from Leandro in New York, who is learning . . .
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November 09, 2009 10:28 AM EST --
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This week, we’re looking at a pair of useful words that Fowler’s Modern English . . .
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September 13, 2007 04:43 PM EDT --
A few weeks ago on Grammar Grater, we talked about words that sound alike but have different meanings and spellings. Words like that are called homophones, and today, we’re going to have a look at . . .
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