Tag: meaning
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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August 30, 2007 04:31 PM EDT --
Have you ever gone to the supermarket and been lured into the express checkout aisle because you have Twelve Items or Less? Strictly speaking, it turns out that sign confuses less with fewer.
The words . . .
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March 13, 2008 01:02 PM EDT --
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"Do we have plans next Saturday?"
"The 15 th ?"
"No, no - I mean next Saturday. The . . .
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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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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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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 06, 2007 04:47 PM EDT --
The topic of this week's Grammar Grater comes from a question we received from Jason, a listener in Irvine, California:
"Please discuss nauseated vs. nauseous. I was only taught that people . . .
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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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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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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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October 11, 2007 03:28 PM EDT --
There’s a lot of great vocabulary we can pick up just by listening to the news. When I was a kid, I remember hearing news stories that contained lines like this:
“Two more city aldermen were . . .
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November 01, 2007 04:17 PM EDT --
Daylight saving time has certainly received its share of attention this year, given the date change in North America and the technical requirements for people's computers. It may seem strange to talk . . .
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November 21, 2007 01:00 PM EST --
Grammar Grater comes out a day early this week in observance of the US Thanksgiving holiday.
Sometimes my brothers and I would complain about our homework: it was dull, it was difficult, the usual . . .
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December 06, 2007 02:57 PM EST --
In this special edition, Grammar Grater explores the word "flip-flop" as part of Minnesota Public Radio's program In The Loop . This program was taped before In The Loop's live studio . . .
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January 31, 2008 10:38 AM EST --
What is it that makes the prodigal son ... prodigal? For a lot of people, it's the fact that he left and came back, but that's not quite right. And the misuse of prodigal doesn't sit well . . .
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