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...right. Nelly and Tim McGraw recently had a hit with the style-mixing duet Over and Over, Jack White of the White Stripes produced a Grammy-winning album for Loretta Lynn, and the best song currently making its way around the Internet is Sweet Home Country Grammar, a mash-up of Lynyrd Skynyrd's Sweet Home Alabama and Nelly's Country Grammar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle of Troy | 5/24/2005 | See Source »

...legacy of papa Loudon and mama Kate McGarrigle, but the talent for profanity is all her own. This roar of a song is further proof that a girl and a guitar can be just as menacing as a guy and a gun. Mei-Lwun Sweet Home Country Grammar Mash-ups - the marriage of a vocal from one song with the music bed from another - no longer sound so revolutionary as they did when they first conquered the Internet, but the unlikely pairing of Lynyrd Skynyrd's riff and Nelly's spliffs improves both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Songs Worth Three Minutes | 5/19/2005 | See Source »

...likened it to a sparse grammar of nouns and verbs and a limited vocabulary that is presented “in such a deft way that it will help you understand any language you wish to understand and any language will fit into...

Author: By Alexandra C. Bell and Alexandra M. Gutierrez, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: IN MEMORIAM | 5/6/2005 | See Source »

...likened it to a sparse grammar of nouns and verbs and a limited vocabulary that is presented “in such a deft way that it will help you understand any language you wish to understand and any language will fit into...

Author: By Alexandra C. Bell, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ex-Math Prof Mac Lane, 95, Dies | 4/25/2005 | See Source »

Blair and her deputies, Judy Paul, Shirley Barden Zimmerman and Eleanor Edgar, along with 19 copyreaders, check every article for grammar, syntax and usage. Some common errors: confusing who and whom, which and that, and homonyms like horde/hoard; mismatched subjects and verbs, as in "One out of five deaths were . . ." (the subject is one); and dangling modifiers like "Winner of the Nobel Prize, her neighbors did not know . . ." (the neighbors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter from the Publisher: Aug. 19, 1985 | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

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