Word: grammars
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Congress that had come to an end nearly a dozen years earlier and two failed Senate races. He had absolutely no administrative experience and only one year of formal schooling. Newspapers described him as "a third-rate Western lawyer" and a "fourth-rate lecturer, who cannot speak good grammar...
...another, less tangible return on investment here. At the risk of sounding sentimental, this is the only investment I've ever owned that has actually made me happy, regardless of whether it pays off financially. When I first visited the company last fall, I sat in on a grammar class and discovered what a godsend these call-center jobs are to new recruits. Asked to complete a sentence beginning "I wish ... ," a woman in her 20s cried as she confided that what she wished for most of all was to see her mother, who had worked abroad for the past...
...their first language. And when their Maori vocabulary comes up short, they reach for an English word. Young speakers increasingly structure Maori sentences as if they were English, says Bauer. "Swapping words is one thing," says Toni Waho, a pioneering te reo teacher. "The sinister thing is when grammar changes, because grammar reflects cultural values and ways of thinking. We have to be very vigilant in ensuring the grammatical structure of Maori isn't taken over by English...
...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...
...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...