Ellen Lind

Principal editor, product lead at @Forrester | Writer | Grammar guru and language expert | @BrandeisU alum | Lifelong @RedSox fan | Tweets are mine

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@RedSox @RedSox can my husband and I get a tour inside the Green Monster this year?

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@claireakennedy_ @baublesnbraids It works for all gas stations! The catch: Your "cash back" is a Costco gift certificate that you get once a year. It can only be redeemed at Costco and can't be turned into cash. Great if you do a lot of shopping at Costco, but otherwise not so much.

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@megheuer These designs are the sweetest! Natalie is so talented — I hope she pursues a future in illustration!

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@jefflash @jaredblankotr Effective — I am now eating a bowl of (honey-nut) hyper-round whole-grain consumables with 99.99999% deliciousness

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@RedSox @newbalance @NB_Baseball My husband and I have always wanted a tour inside the Green Monster!

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@jessica_lillian @The_Belladonnas Love this! Go Wawwyerz!

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@AmySilverBills Same and same, Amy. 😩

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@J_Schneider Last summer when I brought a book to the bar, an attractive stranger came up to me with a bouquet of flowers and asked me out

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@MerriamWebster My dog destroyed the snowman I was trying to build.

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@Wally97 @RedSox @TessieTGM Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, Rudolph

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Today would've been my dad's 80th birthday. He's been gone almost seven months, and it hasn't gotten any easier. He was extraordinary. I miss you, Dad.

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@MerriamWebster "The sequence of tenses is the relation between the verb tense in a main clause and the verb tense in a subordinate clause."
— The Little, Brown Essential Handbook for Writers by Jane E. Aaron, 1994

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I lost my dad in April, and every day I worry when I'll start forgetting things about him — the sound of his voice, his laugh, his hugs. So, @BananaRepublic, this subject line was really hard for me. Marketers, please consider your choice of words in #FathersDay campaigns.

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@BCDreyer Appropriately, my @MerriamWebster page-a-day calendar today

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@eabrewster I use "flat out" as an adverb (as in "I am flat-out confused by your friend's weird use of 'flat out'"). To mean super busy, I'd use "out straight." CT/MA

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@AmySilverBills @CharlesFinch Can confirm — my CT childhood was rife with birthday parties at the roller rink. Those parties were the best!

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@AdrienneRenaud #Editing, 100%. I've been doing this for 20 years and still find myself having to prove my worth. Many people don't (or don't want to) acknowledge that editing is WAY more than "adding a comma," and a lot of writers think their writing talent precludes the need for an editor.

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@Keeks919 Congratulations, Katie; so happy for you and your family! Glad to have you back "in the office" too!

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@fatemehx2 Ooh, I've seen them twice! One of those times, when Weezer was opening, my friends and I didn't have tickets so we hung out with Rivers in the parking lot behind the club and got in on Weezer's guest list. Another fun fact: Ed Kowalczyk lives in the town I just moved out of.