•March 17, 2021•
By Jim Baumann
NP Guest Writer

I have many pen pals in my line of work and, of course, I quickly developed a running discourse with a guy who calls himself “The Dictionary Man.”
Ted Utchen would write to me monthly at least, sometimes twice in the same week, with imponderables, injustices, tattles and helpful hints.
I wrote about Ted nine times — meaning I skipped writing about his correspondences dozens of times over the years — and recall leading one column with “Ted Utchen has a bee in his bonnet.”
He usually did, but he was playful about it. He called me, variously, “Grammar Granny,” “Mr. Grammarian,” “St. Grammarian” and just plain “Grammar.”     Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.