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ABC News: Travel - Sep 1, 2007
The subjunctive mood of verbs is a prickly thicket, but one lapse has occurred so often that it seems compulsory to explain why it's a grammatical and logical sin. I refer to the war between may have and might have …
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ABC News: Travel - Sep 1, 2007
The challenge was to provide the identity of a person or group before she, he or they became famous.The winner:Leif the Needed-One-More-Number.Lorraine Lapp and Louis Lefebvre, Orangeville, Ont. (Globe Insider …
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ABC News: Travel - Sep 1, 2007
Reader Margaret Condy asks a good question: ''Why do people refer to a ''near miss'? If it was a near miss, then obviously it was a ''hit.' For example, in the Saturday Globe a headline read, ''WestJet plane in near …
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ABC News: Travel - Sep 1, 2007
The challenge was to suggest ways you can tell your doctor isn't the right one for you. The entries poured in; more will appear later.The winner:There are no magazines in the waiting room, just copies of your medical …
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ABC News: Travel - Sep 1, 2007
Fulsome has a useful meaning as insincerely gushing, cloying and annoyingly excessive. I've written here in the past that this meaning is under siege. Now I'd say it's on life support.
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