Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing

737 Episodes

1. Skunked words. The power of pronouns. Quigleys

   Published: 5/7/2024
2. Air worms and fire breathing dragons: Old English animal stories with Hana Videen

   Published: 5/2/2024
3. When (and How) Should You Cite AI? 'Critters,' 'Varmints,' and Beyond. Choobers.

   Published: 4/30/2024
4. Exploring the 'Funnest' Parts of Language with Anne Curzan

   Published: 4/25/2024
5. The birth of punctuation: from oral traditions to silent reading. Noun clusters. A wing wang in a mucket.

   Published: 4/23/2024
6. How to become a supercommunicator, with Charles Duhigg

   Published: 4/18/2024
7. Big changes in Associated Press style. The 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' finale was catawampus. Bappy

   Published: 4/16/2024
8. Pet-Speak: From Meowlogisms to Zoomies. 'Imply' or 'Infer'?

   Published: 4/9/2024
9. You love to read. Could you narrate?

   Published: 4/2/2024
10. Memory, Aging, and the Lingering 'Anyways'

    Published: 3/26/2024
11. A nuclear win at the Oscars. CamelCase. One clo.

    Published: 3/19/2024
12. From grunts to grammar. The Irish 'after doing.' The winning NGD poem!

    Published: 3/12/2024
13. Where did our language start?

    Published: 3/5/2024
14. 'Addictive' or 'addicting'? Types of nouns. Folley

    Published: 2/27/2024
15. Tracing the origins of Miami's new English. Why it's not a 'gumballs' machine. Embassy Sweets.

    Published: 2/20/2024
16. Taylor Swift Doesn't Need Your Grammatical Approval. In Love. Foil Lump Surprise.

    Published: 2/13/2024
17. 'A' versus 'an.' 'Larruping' rides again. Euonyms. Flavoring.

    Published: 2/6/2024
18. From 'hwhat' to 'what': Tracing a letter's disappearing act. Barkhouse.

    Published: 1/30/2024
19. The listener show! (canceled, think, lettuce, funnily, episode numbers, at about, mangos, musgos)

    Published: 1/23/2024
20. Technology changes how we write. Who was the first Goody Two Shoes?

    Published: 1/16/2024