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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 sentence is the gerund "editing" (which takes the singular verb 'is') -- not "errors."

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 thinking: Isn't it weird that having celebrated someone -- "feted" -- is pronounced exactly the same...