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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 . . . more
April 10, 2008 01:25 PM EDT -- [ Listen using RealAudio ][ Download and listen to mp3 ] "I feel bad ." "I feel badly ." Which is correct? Today we discuss this common pitfall when writing . . . more
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 . . . more
July 10, 2008 03:02 PM EDT -- [ Listen using RealPlayer ] [ Download and listen to MP3 ] [ Subscribe to podcast ] Catherine from Edina, Minnesota, sent this message to us:   "Please address the word preventive . . . more
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 . . . more
April 25, 2007 10:18 AM EDT -- A DEFINE-A-THON is the new word game sensation created by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Why are they taking us beyond the spelling bee? Because being able to SPELL a word doesn't . . . more
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 . . . more
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 . . . more
March 20, 2008 04:58 PM EDT -- [ Listen using RealAudio ][ Download and listen to the mp3 ] This week, we talked about a popular expression that sometimes gets confused. The topic was suggested to us by Beverly from Franklin, . . . more
April 24, 2008 03:28 PM EDT -- [ Listen using RealPlayer ] [ Download and Listen to MP3 ] [ Subscribe ] This week, we're looking at a linguistic foible that's actually heard quite often in conversational speech in Minnesota. . . . more
May 23, 2008 09:28 AM EDT -- [ Listen using RealAudio ] [ Download and listen to mp3 ] [ Subscribe ] This week's episode of Grammar Grater addresses a topic we've heard so much about in the news. On May 2, Myanmar (also . . . more
June 05, 2008 05:08 PM EDT -- [ Listen Using RealAudio ] [ Download and Listen to mp3 ] [ Subscribe to podcast ] This week's topic on Grammar Grater addresses a couple of words that sound alike and come fairly close in meaning, . . . more
February 21, 2008 01:27 PM EST -- [ Download the mp3 ][ Listen using RealPlayer ] When paramedics are helping a patient, communications must be clear and precise. So we thought it was very important when we got this message from . . . more
July 03, 2008 12:12 PM EDT -- [ Listen using RealPlayer ] [ Download and listen to MP3 ] [ Subscribe to podcast ] This week on Grammar Grater, our topic was inspired by this note from Lee in Moorhead, Minnesota: "I . . . more
November 13, 2008 04:13 PM EST -- [ Listen to 64K MP3 stream ] [ Download and listen to podcast ] [ Subscribe to podcast ] This week on Grammar Grater, our topic is inspired by a message from Patricia, a listener in Orlando, Fla. . . . more
April 20, 2007 12:06 PM EDT -- AX    Ax, a common nonstandard variant of ask, is often identified as an especially salient feature of African American Vernacular English. While it is true that the form is frequent in the . . . more
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 . . . more
May 03, 2007 04:36 PM EDT -- FIXIN’ TO   Fixin’ to ranks with y’all as one of the best known markers of Southern dialects, although it occasionally appears in the informal speech and writing of non-Southerners . . . more
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 . . . more
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 . . . more
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