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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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Grammar Gossip: The Taste of a New Technological Generation

September 1, 2009 – 10:21 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!
The kiddies are back in school and soon enough we’ll be hearing about the “sweetest” new technology that bleeps on the radar. Before our brain hardware smokes and fizzles out, [...]

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Typos and Bad Grammar Don’t Belong in Your Press Release: All Things Press Release Podcast

August 19, 2009 – 9:41 am

Bad spelling and grammar don’t belong in your press release. Check out the All Things Press Release podcast for more press release tips.

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Grammar Gossip: A Sure Thing

August 5, 2009 – 10:13 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!

A Sure Thing
Grammar Gossip greatly appreciates suggestions given by readers. Recently it was recommended that Grammar Gossip girl cover the difference between insure and ensure. “What a fab idea!” GG [...]

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Grammar Gossip: The Pop! Quiz Effect

July 17, 2009 – 10:37 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!
The Pop! Quiz Effect
Think you know the difference between commonly confused words ‘affect‘ & ‘effect‘? Time for a pop quiz!
Which sentence is correct?
a) Thankfully, Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag’s honeymoon [...]

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