Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing

787 Episodes

1. Tomi Adeyemi: The Writing Life and Her New Writing Course.

   Published: 5/6/2022
2. Scissors, Jeans, and Other Nouns That Are Always Plural. Flat Adverbs. Boteep.

   Published: 4/28/2022
3. If earth looks like a blue marble, why is Earth Day associated with the color green? Also, 'funnest.'

   Published: 4/21/2022
4. You Know. Doppelganger. Trademarks. Funnily. Chicken Milk.

   Published: 4/14/2022
5. I Cannot Tell a Lie (but I Can Mislead! And Sometimes People Do It With Percentages.

   Published: 4/8/2022
6. How Aphasia Causes Difficulty Speaking. Chairdrobe.

   Published: 3/31/2022
7. Why Tired People Talk About Being 'Out of Spoons.' Why Nouns Are More Complicated Than You May Think.

   Published: 3/24/2022
8. Barracking, Sheilas and Shouts: How the Irish Influenced Australian English

   Published: 3/17/2022
9. The Oxford Comma. And Should You Start a Sentence with 'And'?

   Published: 3/10/2022
10. Is 'Materiel' Just a Fancy Pronunciation of 'Material'? Are Binomials the Same Across Languages?

    Published: 3/3/2022
11. Why Do We Cringe at 'Pepper and Salt'? Why 'Square' Is Uncool. Quickquish.

    Published: 2/24/2022
12. What's Square About a Square Meal? How to Use Parentheses, Brackets, and Braces. Guck.

    Published: 2/17/2022
13. Are People Using 'Commiserate' Wrong? The Origin of (the Word) 'Influenza.' Hersband.

    Published: 2/10/2022
14. Do You Call In, Out, or Off Sick? How Kids Learn Language. Hexaboobiated.

    Published: 2/4/2022
15. Tips for Learning a New Language: The Fluent Show

    Published: 1/27/2022
16. Why 'Tiny' Sounds Smaller Than 'Huge.' Nixing the Horrid 'Of.' Kokopelli.

    Published: 1/20/2022
17. 'Strollout,' 'Insurrection,' 'Yassify,' and Other Words of the Year for 2021

    Published: 1/13/2022
18. Cardsharp. The Old-New Singular 'They.' Grignug.

    Published: 1/6/2022
19. Questions, Questions, So Many Questions!

    Published: 12/30/2021
20. Is "Milk and Cookies" One Thing or Two? A New Language Term: The Santaback. Shoedabakers.

    Published: 12/24/2021