August 17, 2008--After making the extended list last week, this week Grammar Girl’s Quick And Dirty Tips For Better Writing made it into the paper by reaching number nine on The New York Times "How-To, Advice, and Miscellaneous" list.
Mignon Fogarty is the host of Grammar Girl and founder of Quick and Dirty Tips. Prior to becoming a grammar guru, Mignon was a magazine and technical writer, and an entrepreneur. Mignon has a B.A. in English from the University of Washington in Seattle and an M.S. in biology from Stanford University.
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Can you remember how to spell these? Grammar Girl has the trick.
A memory trick to remember the spellings, plus rules for when "personnel" is singular and when it is plural.
Grammar Girl has a Quick and Dirty Tip to remember the difference between "tenet" and "tenant'.
Grammar Girl has memory tricks for remembering the differences.
"Disinterested" and "uninterested" have different meanings, but people are starting to confuse them. Grammar Girl has a trick for getting them right.
Although the "in-" prefix can be negative, it's not in this case. Grammar Girl explains this and other linguistic phenomena.
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