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	<title>Shawn Shearer</title>
	<link>http://shawnshearer.com</link>
	<description>Editing, Proofreading, and Writing With a Punch!</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:20:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Get A Quote</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Leave a name, e-mail address, and a brief description of your project.
I&#8217;ll get back to you within one business day.
(And don&#8217;t worry, all comments must be cleared by me - so this won&#8217;t get ever get posted!)
Or, if you prefer - e-mail me.
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		<title>Set up vs. setup</title>
		<link>http://shawnshearer.com/spelling-swamp/set-up-vs-setup/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 03:44:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[You have to set up those speakers for a truly mag setup. You can&#8217;t have a truly mag setup until you set up those speakers.
This is similar to it&#8217;s and its because it&#8217;s so often misspelled and used improperly.
Set up - is a verb that denotes the act of putting something together
Setup - is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Compliment vs. Complement</title>
		<link>http://shawnshearer.com/spelling-swamp/compliment-vs-complement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 03:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When you compliment someone, you could be complementing his or her day. This is actually a hard one for me to remember and another one letter voyage to misunderstanding if it&#8217;s wrong.
Compliment - noun or verb - used for praise, courtesy, esteem, affection, admiration.
Complement - noun or verb - something that fills up, completes, or supplements
One way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eats, Shoots, and Leaves</title>
		<link>http://shawnshearer.com/trade-talk/eats-shoots-and-leaves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 05:17:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Trade Talk]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been reading Lynne Truss&#8217;s book, &#8220;Eats, Shoots, and Leaves&#8221;. It&#8217;s nice to read something from someone who is just as frightened and appalled as I am when we encounter blantant spelling, punctuation, and grammar abuses on signs, billboards, menus, flyers, programs, and just about everything that has words written on it.
It&#8217;s not that people don&#8217;t make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foul vs. Fowl</title>
		<link>http://shawnshearer.com/spelling-swamp/foul-vs-fowl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 04:24:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I was in a foul mood when I went for a walk. The fowl flew away when I approached its nest. That fowl had a foul smell when it passed by me. Suddenly, a foul ball hit the flying fowl when it flew over the baseball field. (It survived and flew out of sight. The fowl [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alternate vs. Alternative</title>
		<link>http://shawnshearer.com/spelling-swamp/alternate-vs-alternative/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 04:08:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When you pick an alternate route, you have substituted one route for another. If you took an alternative route, you have chosen to travel on that route rather than another.
Alternate - one in a series, a substitute for something, occurring or succeeding in turns
Alternative - offering or expressing a choice, something that can be chosen
The difference is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tortuous vs. Torturous</title>
		<link>http://shawnshearer.com/spelling-swamp/tortuous-vs-torturous/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 06:45:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Spelling Swamp]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Traversing this tortuous trail has sapped what energy I had left. My limbs and ankles have been under torturous strain for hours. When will the agony end? Where will this horrible twisting path lead to?
Tortuous - repeated twisting, turning, bending - or - crooked, devious, tricky
Torturous -  causing torture, agony, intense pain, extreme discomfort, painfully [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parentheses - period (or stop) inside or out?</title>
		<link>http://shawnshearer.com/punctuation-playground/parentheses-period-or-stop-inside-or-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 00:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Punctuation Playground]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I had a friend ask me to explain this once and for all. Where does the blasted period go? Quite simply, put the period on the outside if it isn&#8217;t a complete sentence. Put it on the inside if the complete sentence is surrounded by the parentheses.
For example:
Outside - Johnny went down to play ball [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accept vs. Except</title>
		<link>http://shawnshearer.com/spelling-swamp/accept-vs-except/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 00:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Spelling Swamp]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You must accept that these words have to be spelled correctly or no one except you will understand what you&#8217;re talking about. If you do accept that the meanings are remarkably different then you will find your way to more exceptional writing.
Accept is to receive, to give approval, to recognize as true, to take on
Except [...]]]></description>
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		<title>That vs. Which</title>
		<link>http://shawnshearer.com/grammar-garden/that-vs-which/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2007 04:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Grammar Garden]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Which one do I use? This one or that? This is another misused term that is so hard to figure out. In my days as a journalist, my editor wielded his pencil like a switchblade, stabbing and slicing my story every place I chose incorrectly.
His face would be red and inflamed as he handed my shredded story back to [...]]]></description>
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