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Grammar Gossip: Double Trouble

September 8, 2010 – 9:23 am

Sometimes great things come in pairs: Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Kanye West and Twitter, Paul Rudd and bromances, Demi Moore and too much free time with a camera. But sometimes twice is not so nice. We’ve been noticing a troubling amount of doubled words on press releases lately. Most of the time, these words are [...]

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Grammar Gossip: Twi a Compliment or Two

July 6, 2010 – 10:25 am

Every month, Business Wire Editor Emily Jones provides useful grammar tips and tricks to help us write better press releases. It’s another edition of Grammar Gossip! It’s hard to escape the mayhem that is “Twilight” these days, and while I read the first book, I must admit a sudden case of narcolepsy came upon me [...]

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Grammar Gossip: You Don’t Mess With the Zahn

June 7, 2010 – 1:28 pm

Now that we’re almost through our grieving process with the death of Corey Haim, while he will still be missed here at Grammar Gossip, it’s time to move on. Or is it: its time to move on? When do we know if the apostrophe should be there, or shouldn’t? There’s a very simple question you [...]

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Grammar Gossip: A Nice Tall Glass of Quotation Marks, with a Side of Lohan

May 7, 2010 – 10:09 am

Every month, Business Wire Editor Emily Jones provides useful grammar tips and tricks to help us write better press releases. It’s another edition of Grammar Gossip! Warm weather often makes people feel happier and more carefree. While it’s true that L.A. is almost always warm and sunny, we’ve noticed a new round of antics from [...]

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Grammar Gossip: Adieu, Haimster

April 8, 2010 – 10:09 am

Every month, Business Wire Editor Emily Jones provides useful grammar tips and tricks to help us write better press releases. It’s another edition of Grammar Gossip! Grammar Gossip, along with a great collection of 80s fans, recently said goodbye to a favorite – Mr. Corey Haim, the playful and curl-lipped teen idol that while quirky [...]

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Grammar Day Begets Fun Limerick Contest From Ragan.com and Boston Globe

March 5, 2010 – 2:51 pm

In its contest for well-written limericks

Ragan shared the best entries and top picks.
     How impressive the clamour,
    This quest for good grammar,
Next year we’ll add ours to the mix.
 

Being in the press release business, we spend a lot of time coaching clients on headline writing, press release crafting, and other basics of producing press releases that [...]

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Grammar Gossip: Toward, Towards, Towanda!

March 4, 2010 – 1:22 pm

Every month, Business Wire Editor Emily Jones provides useful grammar tips and tricks to help us write better press releases. It’s another edition of Grammar Gossip!
Have you ever struggled with whether to use “toward” or “towards” in a sentence? Have you ever seen the movie “Fried Green Tomatoes?” What ever happened to Mary Stuart Masterson?
This [...]

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Grammar Gossip: An Honorable Mention for a Haim

January 6, 2010 – 1:46 pm

Every month, Business Wire Editor Emily Jones provides useful grammar tips and tricks to help us write better press releases. It’s another edition of Grammar Gossip!
Every month or so, I wonder about what Corey Haim is doing. I look him up on Wikipedia for any updates and search through some old Yahoo! images, although I’m [...]

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Grammar Gossip: The Big L

November 12, 2009 – 9:29 am

Every month, Business Wire Editor Emily Jones provides useful grammar tips and tricks to help us write better press releases. It’s another edition of Grammar Gossip!
It’s not what you think. Grammar Gossip girl shall not say those three little words after we’ve been together only two years. What she will say is that it’s time [...]

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Grammar Gossip: If I Only Had the Nerve…

October 2, 2009 – 10:32 am

Every month, Business Wire Editor Emily Jones provides useful grammar tips and tricks to help us write better press releases. It’s another edition of Grammar Gossip!
There’s no place like home, as is evident by Grammar Gossip’s faithful readers. Thank you to all who send in suggestions. On the way down the yellow brick road of [...]

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