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Spare the hyphen and spoil the phrase.
Don’t be niggardly with the hyphen. Doing so can wreak havoc. On the other hand, insert those little sawed-off lines in the right places,...
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Mar 22, 20154 min read
Compounding the problem
Today’s topic is probably the most frequent grammatical error, which abounds in newspapers and every type of literature to be found. The...
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Mar 15, 20154 min read
Due for a Bash-ing
CNN’s Dana Bash Dana Bash, a likable correspondent for cable channel CNN, did anything but live up to her name Sunday in quizzing Senate...
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Mar 8, 20153 min read
Bombs Away!
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu The hawks in Congress and the media have been jumping all over President Obama for the...
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Feb 27, 20154 min read
Vaccinations quandary
The media, for the most part, scorn the folks who resist vaccinations for diseases or are disinclined to have their children vaccinated....
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Feb 27, 20154 min read
Vaccination quandary
The media, for the most part, scorn the folks who resist vaccinations for diseases or are disinclined to have their children vaccinated....
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Feb 14, 20153 min read
Cholesterol Okay Now?
Well, the government diet gurus have switched positions again. Now they don’t think cholesterol is bad for you. Not long ago, so-called...
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Feb 8, 20153 min read
Rabid GOP Attacks ACA Again
The fanatical anti-Obama faction of the GOP – which is almost the entire Republican Party – is at it again. They voted once more, in the...
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Feb 1, 20152 min read
Sp-l-Check
It’s l-ementary. Pairing or paring the l In certain words, the double l is required. In others, depending on whether the language is...
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Jan 25, 20152 min read
It Hurts So Good!
Florida’s Republican Legislature and governor, Rick Scott, are in a pickle. The people whose boneheaded obeisance to an idiotic ideology...
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Jan 18, 20152 min read
Untangling That Dangling Modifier
Like a yokel at a party of snobs, the dangling modifier looks so uncomfortable. He’s out of place and doesn’t know how to get the heck...
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Jan 10, 20152 min read
Stonewalling the Keystone
The White House indicated that President Obama will veto the Keystone XL Pipeline bill passed last week by the House and due for a vote...
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Jan 4, 20153 min read
Fat Foe Redux
Dr. Mehmet Oz The You Docs are at it again. After results of a huge meta-analysis were published in March, Drs. Mehmet Oz and Michael...
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Dec 28, 20142 min read
Getting to the Bottom of Between
It’s become a full-fledged epidemic. Perhaps the best evidence of the deterioration of English language usage in America is the misuse of...
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Dec 20, 20142 min read
Sneak Preview
Ex-Senator Barney Frank We just got a preview of what’s going to happen to the country under the new Congress, with both the House and...
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Nov 28, 20143 min read
The comma: common but crucial
Preventive Gerontologist, Dr. Arnold Bretsky, recommends this … That’s the beginning of a sentence from a newspaper advertorial urging...
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Nov 14, 20143 min read
Diabetes Association: Telling it like it isn’t
How are Americans supposed to know what food is healthy if the major medical organizations propagate wrong information? So far, so good...
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Nov 9, 20143 min read
Playing it safe
The Democratic Party lost the 2014 midterm elections last week to the Republicans, and the Miami Dolphins lost its ninth game of the...
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Nov 3, 20143 min read
Baby, it’s cold inside!
Cruise ship Outside my stateroom window, the big, heavy tub is churning the Caribbean into a frothy white that is absorbed by the inky...
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Oct 18, 20143 min read
Getting all dangled up
Call them murdered modifiers, muddied modifiers, massacred modifiers – or, perhaps most accurate, misunderstood modifiers. They all...
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