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DERBY LINE, Vermont (AP) — Canada lifted its prohibition on Americans crossing the...

Jim explores the definitions of "evacuate." They may or may not be what you think.

Jim writes about what he learned on his summer vacation.

Posted5/16/2021 5:30 AM No one is perfect. I certainly am not. Nobody who works here is. But, boy, do we try to come close every day and try to learn from our mistakes. Some days are better than others, of course.   What follows is a compilation of reader complaints in the area of grammar and usage. Perhaps it will be helpful to you, too. Enjoy your date with Schadenfreude. Would you agree? Editing for spelling errors are also high on that list. Aha! I did that on purpose. The subject of that ...

Posted5/2/2021 5:30 AM Shame on those of you who thought with a headline like that I was going to break the Numero Uno rule at this newspaper and use the dreaded four-letter F-word. Which, of course, is "fail."   Up first: "feted" and "fetid." I saw in a story description recently that a couple of people were going to be "fetted" for their service. That is, they were to be celebrated with a shindig. The past tense of "fete" is "feted," so in issuing a reminder of its proper spelling it got me ...

Jim writes about navigating gastronomic terms and finally ends his conversation about "that."

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. This is all about one of my favorite subordinating conjunctions: "because."   "It seems that the word because is disappearing from the landscape of writers and editors, being replaced by since and as," wrote reader Neal Lorenzi. Id add the empty-calorie mouthful "due to the fact that" to the list. But Neal is not done making his point. "Its been happening for a long time. More and more sentences read: This engine offers better performance (since ...

Jim says goodbye to an old pen pal and explores Amanda Gormans poetic license.

If youve ever walked into a room, then completely forgotten what you went in there for, youve experienced whats known as the doorway effect: its almost as if the mind blanks itself as you change location, ready for some fresh experience or inpu

CAMDENTON, Mo. (AP) — A southwest Missouri real estate agent was charged Friday with...