Pastor Worley's birds and bees of homosexuality - Examiner
25 May 2012, 3:28 pm
There are weeks when it's a pleaure to be a curmudgeonly atheist and grammarian--and this has certainly been one. Pastor Charles Worley of Providence Road Baptist Church in Maiden, N.C., stands out as a shining example of Christian extremism. This is ...

Are Joy And Peace Against Nana Addo? - Modern Ghana
25 May 2012, 1:27 pm
At first I thought maybe my writing skills had diminished or maybe I was not making sense any more. (I for example am not the best grammarian –maybe due to my Antoa blood). Then I began to realize that many pro-NPP writers like Okoampa, Adofo ...

The Oldest Profession - The Chronicle of Higher Education
21 May 2012, 10:25 am
Wouldn’t that make a great movie? So words and the dictionary came first. A while later, you can imagine a grammarian coming along, tidying the mishmash of words into proper sentences, the forebear of the writers of the usage manuals we have nowadays.

'Trying' at Shawnee Playhouse attempts to bridge generation gaps - Pocono Record
18 May 2012, 2:01 am
This lashing out is something that playwright Glass pointed out about Biddle in her notes on the play: "Always a vigilant grammarian, occasionally he resorted to tirades against my use of split infinitives. Occasionally he drove me to tears ...

Meeting Minutes - Yankton Daily Press
18 May 2012, 1:03 am
Vernon Arens was introduced as the Toastmaster of the meeting. He called on grammarian Joy Winthers who gave the word of the day, which was “Astute” and means shrewd. Table Topics were lead by Matt Stone on the subject of Mark Twain essay titles.

Owens: Never put your finger in a headless snake's mouth - Randolph Leader
16 May 2012, 9:55 am
The rest I picked up by reading the mainstream media. Now to the original question: As the South's self-proclaimed leading redneck grammarian, I am ruling that the man was not bitten by a decapitated snake. As every redneck knows, snakes don't wear caps in ...

Club news: Toastmasters - stevenspointjournal.com
15 May 2012, 3:23 am
Havlovick was evaluated by Ted Kowalski, Burinski by Jeff Ebel and Phillipps by Schmeeckle. Jeff Ebel also was the Ah Counter, Burinski the grammarian and Aaron Marx the Timer. At the conclusion of the meeting, Kowalski presented Havlovick a ...

The Granville Sharp Rule Part 2 - Examiner
14 May 2012, 6:12 pm
The rule, since its last and most comprehensive and sophisticated formulation by Bishop Middleton, has since been neglected, according to A.T. Robertson, because the grammarian Winer, because of his anti-Trinitarian presuppositions, cast doubt on the ...

Judge refuses to dismiss John Edwards charges - YAHOO!
11 May 2012, 11:13 am
"To say 'for a purpose of' offends standard English construction," the exasperated prosecutor turned grammarian said. Despite their case surviving the defense's motion to dismiss, legal observers in the courtroom agreed with Lowell's assessment that the ...

On gay marriage, Obama will make a change you can believe in—in 2013 - YAHOO!
8 May 2012, 4:24 pm
That is how a social movement builds, one public conversion at a time. In theory, it is possible for an accomplished grammarian—or a nervous Obama campaign operative—to parse Biden’s emotional remarks on “Meet the Press” about “love” and the ...