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Tag Archives: Jan Freeman
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Lede of Tuesday’s Boston Globe editorial headlined, “World Cup: Boston shows its international face.” [Can the hardworking staff take just a moment – or two minutes – to bemoan the interminable load time of the online Boston Globe? Thank you.] … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, interminable load time, Jan Freeman, VP/Grammatical Chiropractic, World Cup
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Not to Get Technical About It . . .
The Sunday Boston Globe piece summarizing summer movies featured this subhed: Even in the silly season you can learn a lot from what clicked, what stiffed, and what surprised I thought the expression was “get /got stiffed.” Paging Jan Freeman, paging … Continue reading
Kind “Word”
Many thanks to Boston Globe word maven Jan Freeman, who devoted this week’s edition of “The Word” to answering my recent plea for enlightenment on the was/were usage dilemma. Jan does an excellent job of unraveling it. Ditto for her … Continue reading
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Tagged Ambrose Bierce, Jan Freeman, New York Times, On Language, The Word
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Were That It Was “Were”
I’m as clueless as the next guy about the use of “were” with the subjunctive mood (assuming the next guy isn’t Strunk & White), but these two examples from Michiko Kakutani’s review of The Battle for America 2008 by Dan … Continue reading
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