Grammar Girl: For Writers and Language Lovers.

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Five-time winner of Best Education Podcast in the Podcast Awards. Grammar Girl provides short, friendly tips to improve your writing and feed your love of the English language. Whether English is your first language or your second language, these grammar, punctuation, style, and business tips will make you a better and more successful writer. Grammar Girl is a Quick and Dirty Tips podcast.<hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>

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💌 007 Which Versus That
published 19 years ago
💌 012 Wordiness And Idioms
published 19 years ago
💌 015 Title Capitalization Rules
published 21 years ago
💌 021 Proofreading Tips
published 21 years ago
💌 024 Who Versus That
published 21 years ago
💌 029 GG "They" as a Singular Pronoun
published 15 years ago
💌 030 GG Sentence Fragments
published 15 years ago
💌 031 The Lord Is Come?
published 21 years ago
💌 036 Grammar Manners
published 21 years ago
💌 042 Semicolons
published 21 years ago
💌 048 April Fools' Day Episode
published 20 years ago
💌 051 GG I'm Good
published 14 years ago
💌 055 Misplaced Modifiers
published 20 years ago
💌 056 Generating Story Ideas and Overcoming Writer's Block
published 20 years ago
💌 064 Between You and Me
published 20 years ago
💌 065 Regionalisms
published 20 years ago
💌 067 Your Versus You're
published 20 years ago
💌 068 Unlawful Versus Illegal
published 20 years ago
💌 070 The Asterisk (Trust Me About Grammar, Not About Baseball)
published 20 years ago
💌 071 Units Of Measure
published 13 years ago
💌 072 The The -- The Double The
published 20 years ago
💌 073 Simplify Your Writing
published 20 years ago
💌 076 Starting a Sentence With "Hopefully"
published 20 years ago
💌 077 Verbification of a Noun
published 20 years ago
💌 078 Formatting Hyperlinks
published 20 years ago
💌 082 Daylight-Saving Time
published 20 years ago
💌 083 Interviewing Tips
published 20 years ago
💌 084 People Versus Entities
published 20 years ago
💌 087 Used to Versus Use to, and Other Listener Questions
published 20 years ago
💌 090 Went Missing
published 20 years ago
💌 091 Yo as a Pronoun
published 20 years ago
💌 093 Hyphens
published 20 years ago
💌 095 Zeroscape Versus Xeriscape
published 19 years ago
💌 096 May Versus Might
published 19 years ago
💌 098 Who Versus Whom--Advanced
published 19 years ago
💌 Squirrelly Animal Verbs. 'People,' 'Peoples,' and 'Persons': Why It Matters.
published 5 years ago
💌 100 How to Write Numbers
published 19 years ago
💌 105 Yoda Grammar (Reissue)
published 12 years ago
💌 107 Graduated versus Graduated From
published 19 years ago
💌 108 Whose for Inanimate Objects
published 19 years ago
💌 11 Grammar Style Issues
published 21 years ago
💌 110 When to Leave Out "That"
published 19 years ago
💌 111 GG Everybody Wants Some
published 15 years ago
💌 113 Writing with Slang
published 19 years ago
💌 114 Phrasal Verbs
published 19 years ago
💌 116 "Than I" Versus "Than Me"
published 19 years ago
💌 117 - Biweekly Versus Semiweekly
published 13 years ago
💌 118 Writing Accents and Dialects
published 19 years ago
💌 119 "Shall" Versus "Will"
published 18 years ago
💌 120 He Said, She Said
published 19 years ago
💌 122 Is "Have Got" Acceptable English?
published 19 years ago
💌 123 How to Avoid Clichés
published 19 years ago
💌 124 Better Versus Best
published 19 years ago
💌 125 Comparatives Versus Superlatives
published 19 years ago
💌 126 - Through, Threw, and Thru
published 19 years ago
💌 127 Begs the Question
published 19 years ago
💌 129 Assure Versus Ensure Versus Insure
published 19 years ago
💌 131 Collective Nouns
published 19 years ago
💌 136 Complex-Compound Sentences
published 19 years ago
💌 139 Is "Data" Singular or Plural?
published 19 years ago
💌 140 Modifying Phrases at the Beginning of Sentences
published 19 years ago
💌 141 Appositives
published 19 years ago
💌 142 GG When Are Double Words OK?
published 14 years ago
💌 144 Concrete Versus Cement
published 19 years ago
💌 146 Mixed Metaphors
published 19 years ago
💌 148 How to Write Your First Novel
published 19 years ago
💌 15 years of podcasting with Money Girl and Nutrition Diva
published 3 years ago
💌 150 How to Podcast a Book
published 19 years ago
💌 151 GG Just Say No to Drugs
published 14 years ago
💌 155 What to Call People With Disabilities.
published 18 years ago
💌 156 What is the plural of scissors
published 18 years ago
💌 157 GG When to Use a Comma with “Too”
published 18 years ago
💌 158 "Flammable" Versus "Inflammable"
published 18 years ago
💌 161 "Use" Versus "Utilize"
published 18 years ago
💌 162 How to Write a Great Blog Comment
published 18 years ago
💌 164 "One" Versus "You"
published 18 years ago
💌 165 Abbreviations, Acronyms, And Initialisms
published 21 years ago
💌 166 Strunk and White
published 18 years ago
💌 167 Dashes Versus Colons
published 18 years ago
💌 168 Troublesome Contractions (e.g., I'd've)
published 18 years ago
💌 169 Using “For” to Mean “Because”
published 18 years ago
💌 170 Swear Words in Text
published 18 years ago
💌 172 "All Right" Versus "Alright"
published 18 years ago
💌 174 "Myself"
published 18 years ago
💌 176 What Is Subject-Complement Agreement?
published 18 years ago
💌 177 Why Are British English and American English Different?
published 18 years ago
💌 178 Do Rhetorical Questions Need a Question Mark?
published 18 years ago
💌 179 Can You Start a Sentence with “Which”?
published 18 years ago
💌 180 How to Use Parallel Construction Correctly
published 18 years ago
💌 Why we say ‘OK.’ How tea shaped English slang. Poetry winner
published 16 months ago
💌 181 How Many Spaces After A Period?
published 18 years ago
💌 182 Are You Annoyingly Redundant?
published 18 years ago
💌 183 Verbs Sandwiched Between Singular and Plural Nouns
published 18 years ago
💌 184 When Should You Capitalize Words?
published 18 years ago
💌 185 When Should You Capitalize Titles?
published 18 years ago
💌 186 Funny Misplaced Modifiers
published 18 years ago
💌 187 Should Writers Keep a Journal?
published 18 years ago
💌 188 "Comprise" Versus "Compose"
published 18 years ago
💌 190 Ellipses Spurned
published 18 years ago
💌 191 How to Write a Complaint Letter
published 18 years ago
💌 192 Do I Hate Your Singing or You Singing?
published 13 years ago
💌 193 "Diffuse" Versus "Defuse"
published 18 years ago
💌 196 Adverbs Ending in -ly
published 18 years ago
💌 197 "Where" Versus "In Which"
published 18 years ago
💌 199 "Alternate" Versus "Alternative"
published 18 years ago
💌 200 "Who" Versus "Whom," Advanced
published 15 years ago
💌 201 Is “Ain't” a Word?
published 17 years ago
💌 Inflation, quiet quitting, and "un-" words, like "undressed," that can have two meanings. Gotcha Day.
published 3 years ago
💌 203 How Do You Pronounce 2010?
published 17 years ago
💌 204 Is "Got" Proper English?
published 17 years ago
💌 205 Readers Share Their Funny Errors
published 17 years ago
💌 206 Is "I'm Loving It" Proper Grammar?
published 17 years ago
💌 209 Does the Olympic Theme Song “I Believe” Have a Grammar Error?
published 17 years ago
💌 213 Stacked Modifiers
published 17 years ago
💌 215 Hey, That's Not Grammar Girl!
published 17 years ago
💌 217 What Is Poetic License?
published 17 years ago
💌 219 "Bad" Versus "Badly"
published 17 years ago
💌 220 How to Eliminate Adverbs
published 17 years ago
💌 222 Dashes, Parentheses, and Commas
published 17 years ago
💌 224 When to Use Articles Before Nouns
published 17 years ago
💌 226 How to Use Transition Words
published 17 years ago
💌 228 Comma Splice
published 17 years ago
💌 229 Understanding Voice and Tone in Writing
published 17 years ago
💌 230 When to Use Female Nouns
published 17 years ago
💌 231 How to Write Clear Sentences
published 17 years ago
💌 232 Active Voice Versus Passive Voice
published 17 years ago
💌 234 Does "Until" Include the Date?
published 17 years ago
💌 235 Swearing
published 17 years ago
💌 238 Is It OK to Switch Verb Tenses?
published 17 years ago
💌 239 Capitalizing Proper Nouns
published 17 years ago
💌 240 Do All Adverbs End in "-Ly"?
published 17 years ago
💌 242 "Like" Versus "Such As"
published 17 years ago
💌 243 "Think Different" or "Think Differently"
published 17 years ago
💌 245 "Talk With" versus "Talk To"
published 17 years ago
💌 246 Show, Don’t Tell
published 17 years ago
💌 248 How to Write a Better Resume
published 17 years ago
💌 250 "Foreword" Versus "Forward"
published 16 years ago
💌 251 - What Is a Gerund?
published 13 years ago
💌 252 What Is Plagiarism?
published 16 years ago
💌 257 Should You Ever Put a Space Before a Period?
published 16 years ago
💌 258 How to Write Dialogue
published 16 years ago
💌 259 First, Second, and Third Person
published 16 years ago
💌 260 Contractions
published 16 years ago
💌 263 How to Write Grammatically Correct Photo Captions
published 16 years ago
💌 266 When Should You Capitalize Cocktail and Food Names?
published 20 years ago
💌 267 How to Speak English Like the Irish
published 16 years ago
💌 268 Mixing Verb Tenses
published 16 years ago
💌 270 Commas With Participial Phrases
published 16 years ago
💌 272 Do You Capitalize “God”?
published 16 years ago
💌 273 "A Hold" or "Ahold"?
published 16 years ago
💌 274 Double Subjects
published 16 years ago
💌 275 Camel Case
published 16 years ago
💌 279 Capitalizing Titles
published 16 years ago
💌 280 Whoever or Whomever?
published 16 years ago
💌 281 How Do Words Get in the Dictionary?
published 11 years ago
💌 282 "Each Other" Versus "One Another"
published 16 years ago
💌 283 Did Oxford Drop the Oxford Comma?
published 16 years ago
💌 284 Who Says “Fun” Can’t Be an Adjective?
published 16 years ago
💌 285 GG "Moot" Versus "Mute"
published 14 years ago
💌 288 Compound Nouns
published 16 years ago
💌 292 Overcoming Writer’s Block
published 16 years ago
💌 293 When to Capitalize Seasons
published 16 years ago
💌 294 GG Do You Resent Your Editor?
published 16 years ago
💌 297 GG How to Search a Corpus
published 15 years ago
💌 298 GG Color Your Readers' Imagination with Words
published 15 years ago
💌 299 GG Ten Tips to Banish Typos
published 15 years ago
💌 300 GG Christmas Carol Grammar
published 15 years ago
💌 301 GG Active Voice
published 15 years ago
💌 302 GG Passive Voice
published 15 years ago
💌 304 GG Should You Point Out Errors?
published 15 years ago
💌 305 GG Where Did the @ Symbol Come From?
published 15 years ago
💌 306 GG "The Night Circus": Well Done Second Person Narrative
published 15 years ago
💌 308 GG Should We Abandon Standard Spelling?
published 15 years ago
💌 309 GG Why Do Kids Say "Versing"?
published 15 years ago
💌 310 GG Stationary, Stationery, Complement, and Compliment
published 15 years ago
💌 312 GG This NGD story is "all right."
published 15 years ago
💌 314 GG Mary Sue
published 15 years ago
💌 315 GG Possessives
published 15 years ago
💌 316 GG Sentence Fragments
published 15 years ago
💌 317 GG What Does "Proper English" Mean?
published 15 years ago
💌 318 GG Dashes, Colons, and Commas
published 15 years ago
💌 320 GG You Have No Idea How Weird "Do" Is
published 15 years ago
💌 323 GG How to Write Numbers
published 15 years ago
💌 324 GG When Bad Grammar Means Good Fiction
published 15 years ago
💌 325 GG So You Think You Can Edit?
published 15 years ago
💌 326 GG "Jealousy" Versus "Envy"
published 15 years ago
💌 327 GG "Dilemma" and "Gone Missing"
published 15 years ago
💌 328 GG "Decimate" and "All Right"
published 15 years ago
💌 329 GG "Versus"
published 15 years ago
💌 330 GG The Rules of Story
published 15 years ago
💌 331 GG "Pet" or "Petted"? Troublesome Past Tenses
published 15 years ago
💌 332 GG How Do You Tell If Something Is True?
published 15 years ago
💌 333 GG When Is W a Vowel
published 15 years ago
💌 334 GG Using Present Tense in a Story About the Past
published 15 years ago
💌 341 GG Google Ngram and "Impact" as a Verb
published 14 years ago
💌 342 GG Writing for Dyslexic Readers
published 14 years ago
💌 346 GG Tuxedo Verbs
published 14 years ago
💌 347 GG How to Use a Hyphen
published 14 years ago
💌 348 GG How Webster's Screwed Up
published 14 years ago
💌 349 GG A Word Lover's Highlights of 2012
published 14 years ago
💌 350 GG "Who" Versus "That"
published 14 years ago
💌 351 GG Pronouns: Is a Company a "Who" or a "That"?
published 14 years ago
💌 352 GG How to Create and Use Figures of Speech Pt.1
published 14 years ago
💌 353 GG Can Apple Get Away with "Funness"?
published 14 years ago
💌 355 GG Subject Object
published 14 years ago
💌 356 GG Where Do I Use Commas?
published 14 years ago
💌 357 GG Why the Plural of "Die" Is "Dice," not "Douse."
published 14 years ago
💌 358 GG "Only": The Most Insidious Misplaced Modifier
published 14 years ago
💌 359 GG Do You Tell People to Pound Sand or Pound Salt?
published 14 years ago
💌 361 GG Is That a Wool Sweater or a Woolen Sweater?
published 14 years ago
💌 362 GG Why Are Some Portmanteaus So Awful?
published 14 years ago
💌 363 GG Writing Flashbacks
published 14 years ago
💌 364 GG Why Would Anyone Use "The Chicago Manual of Style"?
published 14 years ago
💌 365 GG The Language of Crime
published 14 years ago
💌 366 GG How Texting Is Changing English
published 14 years ago
💌 367 GG The Old Editor Says
published 14 years ago
💌 368 GG Hyphens
published 14 years ago
💌 369 GG Why Does "I" Take Plural Verbs?
published 14 years ago
💌 370 GG Why Isn't "Gruntled" A Word?
published 14 years ago
💌 371 GG Commma Splice
published 14 years ago
💌 372 GG Retronyms
published 14 years ago
💌 374 GG Rebracketing
published 14 years ago
💌 375 GG What Is It Called When You Mishear Song Lyrics?
published 14 years ago
💌 376 GG Why Do We Have Both A and An?
published 14 years ago
💌 377 GG Royal "We"
published 14 years ago
💌 378 GG Apostrophes and Plurals
published 14 years ago
💌 379 GG Apostrophes in Science Fiction and Fantasy Names
published 13 years ago
💌 380 GG Participles and Gerunds
published 13 years ago
💌 381 GG Prepositions
published 13 years ago
💌 383 GG Could Care Less
published 13 years ago
💌 384 - Homophones
published 13 years ago
💌 385 - Irony
published 13 years ago
💌 386 - Negation in Night Vale
published 13 years ago
💌 387 GG "Because" as a Preposition
published 13 years ago
💌 388 GG Style Sheets
published 13 years ago
💌 389 GG English Plurals: Wugs and Blicks
published 13 years ago
💌 390 - Passive Voice
published 13 years ago
💌 391 GG Scrabble Words
published 13 years ago
💌 392 GG Orangehead
published 13 years ago
💌 393 GG Nonsense Syllables
published 13 years ago
💌 394GG Hashtag Rap
published 13 years ago
💌 395 GG How to Use Quotation Marks
published 13 years ago
💌 396 GG Tenterhooks or Tenderhooks?
published 13 years ago
💌 397 - Secrets of Bestselling Novels
published 13 years ago
💌 398GG Why Some Band Names Take "The" and Some Don't
published 13 years ago
💌 399 - Your Brain on Fiction
published 13 years ago
💌 400 - How Reading Tickles Your Neurons
published 13 years ago
💌 401 - How Clipping Creates New Words
published 13 years ago
💌 402 - Little Bunny Foo Foo
published 13 years ago
💌 403 - Preventative and Orientate
published 13 years ago
💌 404 - Why "Substitute" Is Weird
published 13 years ago
💌 405 - Is Cash Money a Regional Expression?
published 13 years ago
💌 406GG Begging the Question
published 13 years ago
💌 407GG Why Canadians Don't Really Say "Aboot"
published 13 years ago
💌 408 - Why We Don't End Sentences With "You're"
published 13 years ago
💌 410GG Just Because
published 13 years ago
💌 411 - Addictive Versus Addicting
published 13 years ago
💌 412 - Can I Help Who's Next?
published 13 years ago
💌 413 - Words Invented by Shakespeare
published 13 years ago
💌 414 - Luisa Zissman's Missing Apostrophe
published 13 years ago
💌 415 - Commas Are Like People on the Subway
published 13 years ago
💌 416GG How to Kick Your Annoying Preposition Habit
published 13 years ago
💌 417 - An Unparalleled Letdown
published 13 years ago
💌 419 - Using Stick Figures to Understand First, Second, and Third Person
published 13 years ago
💌 420 - Why 'A-Whole-Nother' Isn’t Like 'Ala-Frickin’-Bama' and 'Hizzouse'
published 13 years ago
💌 421 - Part II: Why Do People Say 'A-Whole-Nother'?
published 13 years ago
💌 422GG Manipulating Words to Make Things Funny
published 13 years ago
💌 423 GG Is the Semicolon in TL;DR Ironic?
published 13 years ago
💌 424GG There's Something Weird About "For," "Yet," and "So"
published 13 years ago
💌 425 GG Why Weird Al's Word Crimes Video Made Me Want to Quit
published 12 years ago
💌 426 GG A Language Lover's Trip to England
published 12 years ago
💌 427 GG 7 French Food-Related Words That Became English
published 12 years ago
💌 428 GG Crash Blossoms
published 12 years ago
💌 429 GG How to Use the Conjunction “Nor”
published 12 years ago
💌 430 GG The Plural of Money. This Is Your Brain on Writing. Egregious
published 12 years ago
💌 431 GG Words That Aren't Words
published 12 years ago
💌 433 GG Why People Mix Up the Pronouns "Me" and "I"
published 12 years ago
💌 434 GG Ya Shank: The Made-Up Swear Words of 'The Maze Runner'
published 12 years ago
💌 435 GG We Might Could Harvest the Corn
published 12 years ago
💌 436 GG Why People Have Always Been Confused About Apostrophes
published 12 years ago
💌 437 GG What’s the difference between England, Great Britain, and the UK?
published 12 years ago
💌 438 GG Why Do People Say Punctuation Out Loud?
published 12 years ago
💌 439 GG Texting, Coffins, and Death
published 12 years ago
💌 440 GG How to Plan a Novel
published 12 years ago
💌 441 GG Mic or Mike? Simple or Simplistic? Uppercase and Lowercase
published 12 years ago
💌 442 GG Make Me a Sandwich
published 12 years ago
💌 444 GG Between You and Me
published 12 years ago
💌 445 GG Why Do People Say "Like" All the Time?
published 12 years ago
💌 446 GG Why Don't People Say "Thou" Anymore
published 12 years ago
💌 448 GG How Our Brains Process Hyperbole
published 12 years ago
💌 449 GG Double Possessives
published 12 years ago
💌 450 GG Is Sign Language Universal?
published 12 years ago
💌 451 GG Impossible Participals
published 12 years ago
💌 452 GG Why People Misuse Prepositions
published 12 years ago
💌 453 GG Less Versus Fewer
published 12 years ago
💌 454 GG Splitting Infinitives
published 12 years ago
💌 455 GG Why Do We Drive on Parkways and Park on Driveways?
published 12 years ago
💌 456 GG Is Starting a Sentence With So Condescending?
published 12 years ago
💌 458 GG Can You Process These Tricky, but Grammatical, Sentences?
published 12 years ago
💌 459 GG Subject-Verb Agreement
published 12 years ago
💌 460 GG Global English: Prepone, Do the Needful, and More
published 12 years ago
💌 461 GG Between You and Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
published 12 years ago
💌 462 GG Everyday. Ain't. Eponyms
published 12 years ago
💌 463 GG Most or Almost. Parallel Structure. Follow Suit
published 12 years ago
💌 464 GG Weird Conditionals
published 12 years ago
💌 465 GG Two Spaces After a Period?
published 12 years ago
💌 466 GG Healthy Versus Healthful. The Best SAT Essay Ever. Fast and Loose
published 12 years ago
💌 467 GG Deep Seeded or Deep Seated?, Lewis Carroll: He Loved to Play with Language, Japanese Words in English
published 12 years ago
💌 468 GG Congratulations. Food Names That Come From Countries…or Not. Tall Poppy Syndrome.
published 12 years ago
💌 469 GG Kudos. Crossword Puzzles. Squad Goals. June 4, 2015.
published 12 years ago
💌 470 GG Prepositions in Shakespeare
published 12 years ago
💌 471 GG Size versus Sized. When Is It OK to Be Redundant? Mind Your P’s and Q’s.
published 11 years ago
💌 472 GG Citizen or Resident? Let's and Let Us. Newfangled.
published 11 years ago
💌 473 GG How Understanding Toy Story Can Help You Get into College
published 11 years ago
💌 474 GG Flesh Out. Last Names. Hat Trick.
published 11 years ago
💌 475 GG How a Comma Can Get You out of a Parking Ticket
published 11 years ago
💌 476 GG Zero Percent, Prefixes and Suffixes, Malapropisms
published 11 years ago
💌 477 GG Scrabble Extravaganza
published 11 years ago
💌 478 GG Why English Has Silent Letters
published 11 years ago
💌 479 GG Scrabble in Different Parts of the World
published 11 years ago
💌 480 GG Matriculate. Diminutives. Crocodile or Alligator?
published 11 years ago
💌 481 GG And/Or. That Should Be a Word.
published 11 years ago
💌 482 GG Amused or Bemused. Being Bilingual. Positive Anymore.
published 11 years ago
💌 483 GG Sort, Kind, or Type? Homophones, Homographs, and Homonyms
published 11 years ago
💌 484 GG Mantel or Mantle? Bulleted Lists
published 11 years ago
💌 485 GG Firstly. Exclamation Points. Leeway.
published 11 years ago
💌 486 - Suffragette. Ginormous
published 11 years ago
💌 487 GG Wolf or Woof. Interrobang. Riding Roughshod
published 11 years ago
💌 488 GG Hallowe'en. Apostrophes. The Garden Path
published 11 years ago
💌 489 GG Dialogue Tags. Writing Fight Scenes. NaNoWriMo
published 11 years ago
💌 490 GG Formatting URLs in Text
published 11 years ago
💌 492. GG. Blue. Kith and Kin
published 11 years ago
💌 493 GG Hoofs or Hooves? Color Phrases
published 11 years ago
💌 494 GG Pair. Forensic Linguistics. In Cold Blood
published 11 years ago
💌 495 GG Pair. Misusing “So” and “Very.” Even Keel
published 11 years ago
💌 496 GG Plural of Hippopotamus
published 11 years ago
💌 497 GG Should You Capitalize 'the Force' from Star Wars?
published 11 years ago
💌 498 GG A Joke About a Mongoose. Writing Dates.
published 11 years ago
💌 499 GG Current or Currant? Singular They
published 11 years ago
💌 50 GG Like Versus As
published 13 years ago
💌 500 GG Redundancy. Letters of Recommendation.
published 11 years ago
💌 501 GG Word Families. Caucus
published 11 years ago
💌 502 GG. Straw Man. Wicked.
published 11 years ago
💌 503 GG What Is a Canard?
published 11 years ago
💌 504 GG Shined or Shone? Idioms About Tea
published 11 years ago
💌 505 GG Maudlin. Vocabulary Words
published 11 years ago
💌 506 GG Subordinate Clause Examples
published 11 years ago
💌 507 Patty or Paddy? Needs Washed
published 11 years ago
💌 508 GG. Haiku Winners. Great Story Ideas
published 11 years ago
💌 509 GG Charlie Chaplin Grammar. S-Backing.
published 11 years ago
💌 511 GG Pronouncing Pulitzer. Navajo Codes in WWII
published 11 years ago
💌 512 GG Titled or Entitled? AP Style Updates. Into Thin Air.
published 11 years ago
💌 513 GG North or Northbound. Subjunctive Verbs.
published 11 years ago
💌 514 GG Brouhaha. New Words. One Fell Swoop.
published 11 years ago
💌 515 GG Home vs. Away? How to Make Product Names Plural
published 11 years ago
💌 516 GG Celsius Versus Centigrade. 'Between' Versus 'Among'
published 11 years ago
💌 517 GG Why Do We Call It Commencement? When to Delete "It"
published 10 years ago
💌 518 GG Are You Interurban? Vonnegut's Famous Semicolon Quotation Was Taken Out of Context. Off the Cuff.
published 10 years ago
💌 519 GG RBIs. Principal and Principle. Run of the Mill
published 10 years ago
💌 520 GG Band Names. Woman or Female?
published 10 years ago
💌 521 GG Is Funnest a Word? How to Pronounce Adirondack.
published 10 years ago
💌 522 GG Hearty or Hardy? How English Became English. Jury-Rigged.
published 10 years ago
💌 523 GG Sightseeing. On Accident Versus by Accident
published 10 years ago
💌 524 - Affect Versus Effect. How to Pronounce The
published 10 years ago
💌 525 GG Food Idioms. 'Affective' or 'Effective'
published 10 years ago
💌 526 GG Types of Third Person Point of View. Flammable and Inflammable
published 10 years ago
💌 527 GG 'Lit' or 'Lighted.' Why Some Words Become Homophones
published 10 years ago
💌 528 GG Adjectives. Logical Fallacies
published 10 years ago
💌 529 GG Latin Words. Batten Down the Hatches
published 10 years ago
💌 530 GG Whom. Preorder. Badger, Weasel, Ferret.
published 10 years ago
💌 531 GG Writing Dual POVs. Space Operas and Soap Operas.
published 10 years ago
💌 532 GG Loose or Lose. You Wazzock.
published 10 years ago
💌 533 GG. Etc. Short Shrift. Prepositions
published 10 years ago
💌 534 GG. Bridget Jones. Pay Dirt. Dashes.
published 10 years ago
💌 535 GG Anyways or Anyway? Topic Sentences
published 10 years ago
💌 536 GG Hit the Bestseller List: How to Style Your Words Like a Bestselling Author
published 10 years ago
💌 537 GG "Further" Versus "Farther." Horse's Mouth
published 10 years ago
💌 538 Alumni. Words from Bookmaking. Beyond the Pale
published 10 years ago
💌 539 GG Capitalizing Job Titles. I.e. Versus E.g. Sentence Diagramming
published 10 years ago
💌 540 GG. Cemetery or Graveyard? Peer Editing. To Calendar.
published 10 years ago
💌 541 GG Before or Prior To? Foreign Language Syndrome
published 10 years ago
💌 542 GG. 'Aloud' or "Out Loud'? Strong Voice
published 10 years ago
💌 543 GG. By the Wayside. How to Pronounce 'Biopic'
published 10 years ago
💌 544 GG. Pilgrim Names. Pronouncing Foreign Words
published 10 years ago
💌 545 GG Read the Riot Act. The Changing English Language.
published 10 years ago
💌 546 GG Anxious/Eager. If Not.
published 10 years ago
💌 547 GG 'A While' or 'Awhile'? Writing Dialogue
published 10 years ago
💌 548 GG. What Makes Good Stories.
published 10 years ago
💌 549 GG Hone/Home In. Apostrophes.
published 10 years ago
💌 550 GG Enormity or Enormousness? Badminton
published 10 years ago
💌 551 Capital vs Capitol. Citing Podcasts and Websites
published 10 years ago
💌 551 GG. Words of the Year. Writing Tips.
published 10 years ago
💌 553 GG Not Only, But Also. Leave in the Lurch. Month Names.
published 10 years ago
💌 554 GG 'Reticent' or 'Reluctant.' Which' or 'That.'
published 10 years ago
💌 555 GG. Toe/Tow the Line. Pled or Pleaded. Animal Idioms.
published 10 years ago
💌 556 GG Tumult. Bull in a China Shop. Always, Never, Usually, Often, Most, and More
published 10 years ago
💌 557 GG Double Dactyl Poetry
published 10 years ago
💌 558 GG How to Write Good Survey Questions
published 10 years ago
💌 559 GG. Abbreviations. And Then the Murders Began. Runcible. Haiku.
published 10 years ago
💌 560 GG Devil's Advocate. 3 Tips for Creating Sentences with Punch
published 10 years ago
💌 561 GG $10 Million Comma. Ambiguous Sentences. Tribute to Bill Walsh
published 10 years ago
💌 562 GG AP Style and Chicago Manual of Style Updates
published 10 years ago
💌 563 GG Singular 'They'
published 10 years ago
💌 564 GG. Preposition or Adverb?
published 10 years ago
💌 565 GG. Solving Crimes with Language. Apple, Podcasts, and Prepositions.
published 9 years ago
💌 566 GG. Off Your Feed. Animal Language.
published 9 years ago
💌 567 Is Pig Latin a Real Language?
published 9 years ago
💌 568 GG. In or Among. Weird Words.
published 9 years ago
💌 569 GG. Explain vs. Explanation. How to Outline.
published 9 years ago
💌 570 GG Burned or Burnt? Why English Spelling Is a Mess.
published 9 years ago
💌 571 GG Lego or Legos? Why English Spelling Reform Is Doomed.
published 9 years ago
💌 572 GG Themself. Comma Splices.
published 9 years ago
💌 573 GG Until, Till, and 'Til. Dad Jokes.
published 9 years ago
💌 574 GG Commas with Transition Words. Double Whammy.
published 9 years ago
💌 575 GG Gestures. Elbow Grease. Capitalizing Directions.
published 9 years ago
💌 576 GG Critique or Criticize? Games Like Pig Latin
published 9 years ago
💌 577 GG The Trump Jr. Punctuation Kerfuffle. Generation Names.
published 9 years ago
💌 578 GG Words from Obsolete Technology
published 9 years ago
💌 579 GG Language Games. Jerry-Built. And Female Juniors
published 9 years ago
💌 580 GG. Introductory Paragraphs. One of The...
published 9 years ago
💌 581 GG. Riffle and Rifle. Worcestershire Sauce.
published 9 years ago
💌 582 GG. How to Use Quotations. Stop Calling Yourself a Grammar Nazi
published 9 years ago
💌 583 GG Important or Importantly? Time Traveler Words
published 9 years ago
💌 584 GG. Pipe Dream. Comma Before a Quotation.
published 9 years ago
💌 585 GG. Rainy Idioms. "Because," "Due To," "Since," and "As"
published 9 years ago
💌 586 - UK and US English. 'Bad' or 'Badly'?
published 9 years ago
💌 587 - More British & American Differences. Quotation Marks with Periods and Commas
published 9 years ago
💌 588 - Why People Mimic Accents. Why People "Have Your Six."
published 9 years ago
💌 589 - The "Ruth's Chris" Apostrophe. Thingamajigs.
published 9 years ago
💌 590 - How to Write an Apology
published 9 years ago
💌 591 - 'Cannot' or 'Can Not'? 'Dead' Idioms.
published 9 years ago
💌 592 - "Sofa" or "Couch"? "Skeleton" Idioms.
published 9 years ago
💌 593 - The Origin of English: Proto-Indo-European.
published 9 years ago
💌 594 - The Plural of 'Batman.' Why Smart People Struggle with Shakespeare Too.
published 9 years ago
💌 595 - 'Side' Words. What Is a Bailiwick?
published 9 years ago
💌 597 - Eskimo Words for Snow. Write a Book!
published 9 years ago
💌 598 - Gifting and Regifting. Take a Decision.
published 9 years ago
💌 599 - Delicious English Words (Chocolate, Guacamole) with Aztec Roots
published 9 years ago
💌 600 - How to Pronounce 'Caramel.' Sports Idioms
published 9 years ago
💌 601 - 'Based In' or 'Based Out Of.' Omitting 'That'
published 9 years ago
💌 603 - Words of the Year, Why You Shouldn't Use 'Eskimo,' 'Canon' or 'Cannon'?
published 9 years ago
💌 604 - Origin of 'Gerrymandering.' Is 'Data' Singular or Plural?
published 9 years ago
💌 605 - A Homophone Error at the SAG Awards. Lectern or Podium? Capitalizing Award Names
published 9 years ago
💌 606 - Levidromes, Tom Swifty Jokes, and new OED Words.
published 9 years ago
💌 607 - Brainstorming. Call Out Sick? Synesis.
published 9 years ago
💌 608 - Dilly Dilly. How Many Prepositions Can You Put in a Row?
published 9 years ago
💌 609 - Pull Idioms. Surprising Food Names. Dillydally.
published 9 years ago
💌 610 - Top 10 Grammar Myths. How 13 Dog Breeds Got Their Names.
published 9 years ago
💌 611 - Pudding. "There Are" Sentences. Winning Limerick
published 9 years ago
💌 612 - The Pin/Pen Merger. American. 'Half-Staff' or 'Half-Mast'?
published 9 years ago
💌 613 - Dictionary.com Starts Defining Emoji (an interview with Jane Solomon)
published 8 years ago
💌 614 - Illeism. Named For or After? Misinformation and Disinformation.
published 8 years ago
💌 615 - Humor with Adverbs. Noisome. Receipts. Case Quarters.
published 8 years ago
💌 616 - The Prodigal Tongue. Odoriferous. Battle Royale.
published 8 years ago
💌 617 - 'Lay' and 'Lie.' 'Grill' and 'Grille.' 'Warsh.'
published 8 years ago
💌 618 - Jazz and Thunder. Say Your Piece (or Peace)?
published 8 years ago
💌 619 - Co-worker. Barefaced and Baldfaced Lies. Mixed Metaphors.
published 8 years ago
💌 620 - When to Capitalize 'Mom.' In the Doldrums.
published 8 years ago
💌 621 - ‘Council’ or ‘Counsel’? Direct and Indirect Quotations. Oxymorons.
published 8 years ago
💌 622 - Is a Troop One Person or a Group? Repetition
published 8 years ago
💌 623 - 'Calvary' or 'Cavalry'? Spelling Bee Interview.
published 8 years ago
💌 624 - ‘Trooper’ and ‘Trouper.” Why Is It Called a Spelling Bee?
published 8 years ago
💌 625 - ‘Dinner’ or ‘Supper’? How to Write a Thank-You Note
published 8 years ago
💌 626 - ‘Aggravate’ Versus ‘Irritate’ What Is a Functional Shift?
published 8 years ago
💌 627 - How to Write a Great Cover Letter. 'Kinda' and 'Wanna': Real Words or Not?
published 8 years ago
💌 628 - Why 'Bag' and 'Beg' Sound the same to some people? Does 'Texas' Mean 'Crazy'?
published 8 years ago
💌 629 - 'Gourmet' or 'Gourmand'? Why July 14 Is Called Bastille Day.
published 8 years ago
💌 630 - Who Wrote the ABC Song? Shark Idioms!
published 8 years ago
💌 631 - Anniversaries. Conversate.
published 8 years ago
💌 632 - 'Ask' as a Noun. Ships as 'She.'
published 8 years ago
💌 633 - Is That Comment Facetious, Sarcastic, or Sardonic? Cleft Sentences.
published 8 years ago
💌 634 - 'Rack' or 'Wrack'? How to Eliminate Adverbs.
published 8 years ago
💌 635 - 'Quick and Dirty.' 'Momentarily.' Short Subjects.
published 8 years ago
💌 636 - 'To Boot.' Duck Tape. 'Can' and 'May.' Pronouns.
published 8 years ago
💌 637 - ‘MacGyver.’ ‘Semicolons.’
published 8 years ago
💌 638 - 'None.' How Pirates Talked.
published 8 years ago
💌 639 - Great Paragraphs. Falling off the Turnip Truck.
published 8 years ago
💌 640 - Can a Screw Screw Itself into a Board? (Middle Voice)
published 8 years ago
💌 641 - 'Myself.' ‘Get the Skinny.’
published 8 years ago
💌 642 - 'Regard' Versus 'Regards.' Languages Without Numbers.
published 8 years ago
💌 643 - ‘In the Limelight.’ ‘A’ or ‘An’?
published 8 years ago
💌 644 - 'Sit' or 'Set'? Monster Names.
published 8 years ago
💌 645 - Interview with New York Times bestselling author Courtney Summers
published 8 years ago
💌 646 - 'Blond' or 'Blonde'? How 'Trolloping' Became a Word.
published 8 years ago
💌 647 - Pronoun Order. ‘Flier’ or ‘Flyer.’ The Plural of ‘Mouse.’
published 8 years ago
💌 648 - Does Your Language Influence How You Think?
published 8 years ago
💌 649 - 'Ado' or 'Adieu'? Pronouns and Antecedents
published 8 years ago
💌 650 - 'Wreaked' or 'Wrought'? 'Crescendo.' Could We Understand Aliens?
published 8 years ago
💌 651 - 'Capitulate' or 'Recapitulate'? Colons.
published 8 years ago
💌 652 - ‘Purposely' or 'Purposefully'? Yule.
published 8 years ago
💌 653 - How to Use an Asterisk. Journaling.
published 8 years ago
💌 654 - 'Stint' or 'Stent'? How to Pronounce 'Coyote.'
published 8 years ago
💌 655 - ‘Myriad’ or ‘Myriad Of’? What Is a Run-On Sentence?
published 8 years ago
💌 656 - ‘Relapse’ or ‘Recur’? 'Kneeled' or 'Knelt.' ’Methinks.’
published 8 years ago
💌 657 - 'Tip of the Hat" or 'Tip Your Hand'? 'Yeah No.'
published 8 years ago
💌 658 - 'Wage,' 'Wager,' and 'Wed'
published 8 years ago
💌 659 - Normans, Ralls, and Voicemail
published 8 years ago
💌 660 - 'Irregardless' or 'Regardless'? Crime Words.
published 8 years ago
💌 661 - How Paula Brackston picks her characters’ names and uses language to set a tone.
published 8 years ago
💌 662 - 'Racket' or 'Racquet'? Never Misspell 'Bureaucracy' Again.
published 8 years ago
💌 663 - D-Day. Why I Want a Salad-Salad.
published 8 years ago
💌 664 - Benjamin Dreyer and His Unusual Pet Peeves
published 7 years ago
💌 665 - Language News Chat
published 7 years ago
💌 666 - Double Negatives.
published 7 years ago
💌 667 - Why ducks say "quack-quack" in English but "ga-ga" in Japanese.
published 7 years ago
💌 668 - What's Wrong with 'These Ones'? Faith and Begorrah, We Have Irish Phrases for St. Patrick's Day!
published 7 years ago
💌 669 - 'Red Tape,' 'Red Herring,' 'Paint the Town Red,' and More 'Red' Idioms.
published 7 years ago
💌 670 - Equinox. Is Irish the Same as Gaelic?
published 7 years ago
💌 671 - Why We Have Both 'Color' and 'Colour'
published 7 years ago
💌 672 - How a Semicolon Brought Two Writers Together
published 7 years ago
💌 673 - Schwa-ify This! Scrabble Stories
published 7 years ago
💌 674 - How You Can Benefit Year-Round from NaNoWriMo
published 7 years ago
💌 675 - Why Verbs Like 'Witness' Are Weird
published 7 years ago
💌 676 - The Language of 'Game of Thrones'
published 7 years ago
💌 678 - Moolah, Clams, and Scratch. God, Godsend, and Godfather.
published 7 years ago
💌 679 - Brussels sprouts? Scotch eggs? Swedish meatballs? Which food names can you trust?
published 7 years ago
💌 680 - Wakandan, Groot, and Other Languages of the Marvel Universe. Easter and Passover.
published 7 years ago
💌 681 - 'The Dictionary of Difficult Words,' an Interview with Jane Solomon
published 7 years ago
💌 682 - Do You Drop Your T's? 'Sneaked' and 'Snuck.'
published 7 years ago
💌 683 - ‘So’ and ‘So That’: What Type of Conjunction Are They?
published 7 years ago
💌 684 - ‘Unquote’ or ‘End Quote’? Cinco de Mayo. Horse Idioms.
published 7 years ago
💌 685 - How to Find Work as a Freelance Writer. Adventure.
published 7 years ago
💌 686 - The 'Dilemma' Dilemma. 'Big Bang Theory" Words and Language.
published 7 years ago
💌 687 - What It's Like to Be a Book Editor and Translator
published 7 years ago
💌 688 - Dangling Participles
published 7 years ago
💌 689 - More or most? Majority or plurality? The many (how many?) ways to describe amounts.
published 7 years ago
💌 690 - The Spelling Bee Kids
published 7 years ago
💌 691 - BONUS: Introducing Science Rules! with Bill Nye
published 7 years ago
💌 692 - Godzilla, Cryptids, and Dilemma Comments.
published 7 years ago
💌 693 - What's Wrong with Saying Something Is 'Very Unique'?
published 7 years ago
💌 694 - Country Names and “The”: The Ukraine or Ukraine. Theater Idioms.
published 7 years ago
💌 695 - 'Armageddon' or 'Apocalypse'? Numbers in Dialogue.
published 7 years ago
💌 696 - Hyphens in Ages. The Emphatic 'This.'
published 7 years ago
💌 697 - What Anyone Can Learn From the College Essay Process
published 7 years ago
💌 698 - 'Subpoena.' When To Capitalize 'The' in Titles.
published 7 years ago
💌 699 - When to Capitalize Computer Terms. StetWalk
published 7 years ago
💌 700 - When to Capitalize 'Google.' Why Zero is 'Love' in Tennis.
published 7 years ago
💌 701 - ‘Biweekly’ or ‘Semiweekly’? ‘Foward' and ‘Forward.’
published 7 years ago
💌 702 - ‘All of a Sudden’ or ‘All of the Sudden’? ‘Baited’ or ‘Bated’ Breath?
published 7 years ago
💌 703 - Why There Are 9 Different Ways to Pronounce the Letter T
published 7 years ago
💌 704 - Present Tense When Writing About Fiction. The Poop Emoji and Eggcorns.
published 7 years ago
💌 705 - 'Blue Collar,' 'Bluestocking,' and 'the Blue Hair Brigade.' 'Oral' Versus 'Verbal.'
published 7 years ago
💌 706 - Sometimes It's Not a Bad Idea to Dumb Down Your Language.
published 7 years ago
💌 707 - How and Why the Internet Is Changing Language
published 7 years ago
💌 708 - Why Alcohol Is 'Hard.' 'Phenomena' or 'Phenomenon'?
published 7 years ago
💌 709 - Surprise! The History of Semicolons Is Exciting.
published 7 years ago
💌 710 - Vacay. Why Some People Call Green Peppers 'Mangoes'
published 7 years ago
💌 711 - Misheard Song Lyrics and Eggcorns. The Ampersand.
published 7 years ago
💌 712 - Apostrophe Catastrophe. What (or Who) Is a Cipher?
published 7 years ago
💌 713 - More Apostrophe Mayhem. Dyslexia Writing Tips
published 7 years ago
💌 714 - Eponyms: Cardigan, Dunce, Quisling, and More.
published 7 years ago
💌 715 - POV. Plus 'Tinderella,' 'phubbing,' and more words at the intersection of relationships and technology.
published 7 years ago
💌 716 - What's Up With Words That Are Spelled the Same but Sound Different?
published 7 years ago
💌 717 - Words that Sound Funny
published 7 years ago
💌 718 - Writing Scripts and Speeches. Ask and Aks.
published 7 years ago
💌 719 - Why 'Literally' Doesn't Mean 'Literally' Anymore. Video Games for Language Learning.
published 7 years ago
💌 720 - Getting Your Tricky Conditionals Right. Wheelhouse.
published 7 years ago
💌 721 - Verbing Nouns. 'It Is I' or 'It Is Me'?
published 7 years ago
💌 722 - 'Math' or 'Maths'? Irregular Verbs.
published 7 years ago
💌 723 - Grammar Girl #723. Tips for Fact Checking. Why We Use the Term 'Watershed Moment.'
published 7 years ago
💌 724 - Why Esperanto Is an Amazing Language. 'Fall' or 'Autumn'?
published 7 years ago
💌 725 - Interviewing, Story Structure, and Writing Tools with Jonathan Small
published 7 years ago
💌 726 - A Cup of Joe. ‘Smokey’ and ‘Smoky.’
published 7 years ago
💌 727 - The Quirky Australian 'Crime' Tense. 'Hopefully.'
published 7 years ago
💌 728 - How English Words Came Into French After World War II
published 7 years ago
💌 729 - Making Words That End in Y Plural.'Primer' Pronunciation.
published 7 years ago
💌 730 - Turning a Podcast into a Novel: 'The Bright Sessions' to 'The Infinite Noise'
published 7 years ago
💌 731 - Compound Possession. 'Friday' or 'On Friday'?
published 7 years ago
💌 732 - How to Write a Conclusion. ‘Rebut’ or ‘Refute’?
published 7 years ago
💌 733 - Why People Hate Words Like 'Moist'
published 7 years ago
💌 734 - Ghost Words
published 7 years ago
💌 735 - Dave Itzkoff on Writing a Biography of Robin Williams
published 7 years ago
💌 736 - Ghastly Words for Ghosts. Quid pro Quo.
published 7 years ago
💌 737 - Curtis Chen: Using NaNoWriMo to Kickstart Your Novel
published 7 years ago
💌 738 - Can a Boy Raised by Wolves Learn to Speak Human Language? It Depends.
published 7 years ago
💌 739 - The Problem with Sarcasm. Filthy Lucre.
published 7 years ago
💌 740 - Do You Know When to Use Quotation Marks? Also, How to Create a House Style.
published 7 years ago
💌 741 - Behind the Scenes in Publishing.
published 7 years ago
💌 742 - Famous Quotations. Silent Letters.
published 7 years ago
💌 743 - How to Get Your Characters Right (Especially When They Aren't Like You)
published 7 years ago
💌 744 - Cold Turkey, Talk Turkey, and More. The Weird Origin of the Cornucopia.
published 7 years ago
💌 745 - 'More Than' Versus 'Over.' Is a Hamburger a Sandwich?
published 7 years ago
💌 746 - How to Make Family Names Plural. How Come We Ask 'How Come?'
published 7 years ago
💌 747 - You Don't Have to Get Up on Stage for Improv to Boost Your Creativity
published 7 years ago
💌 748 - Your Language Affects Your Perception of Time. 'Star Wars' Languages.
published 7 years ago
💌 749 - How to Identify Your Main Point. It's Harder Than You Think!
published 7 years ago
💌 750 - Pitch Black. Frankincense and Myrrh.
published 7 years ago
💌 751 - Why Are There So Many Spellings for 'Hanukkah'? (Or Is That 'Chanukah'?)
published 7 years ago
💌 752 - Why Do Asian Languages Have So Many Different Scripts?
published 7 years ago
💌 753 - Take Heart! Here's Why You Still Have Time to Write Your First Novel
published 7 years ago
💌 754 - The Tie Between Ann Landers and 'Could Care Less.'
published 7 years ago
💌 755 - How to Write Anything
published 6 years ago
💌 756 - High Odds or Low Odds?
published 6 years ago
💌 757 - The days of the week are names you've known your whole life, but do you know their origin?
published 6 years ago
💌 758 - Why 'XOXO' Means 'Hugs and Kisses'
published 6 years ago
💌 759 - What Does ‛Mardi Gras’ Mean? "Drive to Work" Versus "Drive Home"
published 6 years ago
💌 760 - What Is Genre. 'Bangs' Versus 'Fringe.'
published 6 years ago
💌 761 - Why It's Called 'Daylight Saving Time.' The Origin of the Word 'Woman.'
published 6 years ago
💌 762 - How to Pronounce 'Celtic.' 'Whiskey' or 'Whisky'?
published 6 years ago
💌 763 - How to Write Better Email. 'Pandemic' vs. 'Epidemic.' 'Canceled' vs. 'Cancelled.'
published 6 years ago
💌 764 - Skeleton Crew. Hunker Down. Uncharted. Existential.
published 6 years ago
💌 765 - Say No to Marshall Law. How 'Vaccine' Is Related to 'Cow.'
published 6 years ago
💌 766 - 'Flaunt' and 'Flout.' 'Band Together.'
published 6 years ago
💌 767 - The semicolon is so much more interesting than you imagine
published 6 years ago
💌 768 - Why Aren't We 'Whelmed'? And Cabin 'Fever,' Anyone?
published 6 years ago
💌 769 - Why Do We Say 'Cool Your Heels'? What's Up With 'Zhuzh'?
published 6 years ago
💌 770 - 'Muslim' or 'Moslem'? 'Fishfolk'? 'Fishist'? What Is the Gender-Neutral Term for 'Fisherman'?
published 6 years ago
💌 771 - Writing Lessons from Bad Job Applications
published 6 years ago
💌 772 - The History of ZIP Codes and Addresses (Plus How to Write Them)
published 6 years ago
💌 773 - Postal Zones. Reenter. Bougie.
published 6 years ago
💌 774 - Roy Peter Clark on Civic Clarity
published 6 years ago
💌 775 - Why We Talk About 'Bad Apples.' 'A Few' Versus 'a Couple'
published 6 years ago
💌 776 - Why a Detective Searched for 'Clews' in a 1929 Novel. ‘Systemic’ or ‘Systematic’?
published 6 years ago
💌 777 - How to Write Fight Scenes (and How to Get Started as a Fiction Editor)
published 6 years ago
💌 778 - Do We Say 'Red Skies at Night, Sailor's Delight' Because of the Saharan Dust Plumes? Also, 'Yoiks!'
published 6 years ago
💌 779 - How You Can Help the OED. Capitalizing 'Black.' How Playwriting Techniques Can Improve Your Writing.
published 6 years ago
💌 780 - Which Comes First? Who or Where?
published 6 years ago
💌 781 - Blursday or Whensday? Middle Grade Versus Young Adult Fiction
published 6 years ago
💌 782 - What are those dots over letters? Why does 'money' have a plural, and how do you spell it?
published 6 years ago
💌 783 - How Hurricanes Get Their Names. When You Should Avoid Using Contractions.
published 6 years ago
💌 784 - A Historical Tip for Remembering When to Use 'Historical.' Put More Thought into Your Punctuation.
published 6 years ago
💌 785 - 'Gantlet' or 'Gauntlet'? Do You Want to Say 'Had Went'?
published 6 years ago
💌 786 - 'Doomscrolling' (OK, Doomer). 'Each Other' or 'One Another'?
published 6 years ago
💌 787 - Why We Associate Political Parties with the Colors Red and Blue
published 6 years ago
💌 788 - Why 'Out of Pocket' Means Both 'Inappropriate' and 'Unavailable'
published 6 years ago
💌 789 - How to Make Your Readers Laugh. 'Whoa' or 'Woah'?
published 6 years ago
💌 790 - 'Laureate' Is Good. Why Is 'Resting on Your Laurels' Bad? 'Smarmy.'
published 6 years ago
💌 791 - 'Although' Versus 'While.' Why We Write with Cliches (and How to Stop)
published 6 years ago
💌 792 - A Totally, Like, Bitchin' Podcast About 'Like'
published 6 years ago
💌 793 - Why Journalists Use Misspellings Like 'Lede' and 'Spox'
published 6 years ago
💌 794 - Create Characters as Great as Hamlet. How to Format Internal Dialogue
published 6 years ago
💌 795 - Why People Use Scare Quotes. 'Dialog' or 'Dialogue'?
published 6 years ago
💌 796 - What Is a 'Crony'? Why Doesn’t 'Veterans Day' Have an Apostrophe?
published 6 years ago
💌 797 - Why Dickens' Character Names Are So Revealing. 'Continual' or 'Continuous'?
published 6 years ago
💌 798 - Why 'Hilarious' Is Funnier than 'Hysterical.' How to Start a Novel.
published 6 years ago
💌 799 - What 'Whence' Has to Do with 'Where Are You At?' 'Regime' or 'Regimen'?
published 6 years ago
💌 800 - What Did You Step On? And Is That a Desert or a Dessert?
published 6 years ago
💌 801 - How to Get Your 'Just Deserts.' Comma After 'But'? Why?
published 6 years ago
💌 802 - Brandon Sanderson on Writing, Character and Place Names, and the Future
published 6 years ago
💌 803 - Pandemic, COVID, anderhalvemetersamenleving: 2020 Words of the Year
published 5 years ago
💌 804 - Another Think/Thing Coming. 'Sanction,' 'Cleave,' 'Dust,' and More
published 5 years ago
💌 805 - 'Acedia': the lost name for the emotion we're all feeling right now
published 5 years ago
💌 806 - Why You Should Try Fanfiction. How to Find Tricky Pronunciations.
published 5 years ago
💌 807 - Why We Call Them Sea 'Shanties.' A Trick to Remember How to Spell 'Conscience'
published 5 years ago
💌 808 - 6 Latin Abbreviations You Should Know. 'Imply' or 'Infer'?
published 5 years ago
💌 809 - Rethink Descriptions Like 'Diabetic.' The Wonderful World of Italics,
published 5 years ago
💌 810 - Words out of Time. Why 'OK' Is OK.
published 5 years ago
💌 811 - Inigo Montoya and Coining Phrases. 'Dose' or 'Dosage'?
published 5 years ago
💌 812 - Kibosh. Sidekicks. Misolation.
published 5 years ago
💌 813 - The History of National Grammar Day. My Favorite Resources. Anniversity
published 5 years ago
💌 Why we have both 'a' and 'an.' What does it mean to be lonely? Sufficiency.
published 3 years ago
💌 Wordplay and cartoons: Inside the making of 'AB@C,' with Rob Meyerson and Dan Misdea
published 18 months ago
💌 A Strange Use of 'Said.' Kith and Kin. New Scrabble Words!
published 3 years ago
💌 A vast number of words have surprising origins. We talked about some today, including "scientist," "impressionist," "beatnik," and "paradigm."
published 5 years ago
💌 'A' versus 'an.' 'Larruping' rides again. Euonyms. Flavoring.
published 2 years ago
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💌 BONUS: Introducing Launch
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published 21 months ago
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published 4 years ago
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💌 'Ketchup' or 'Catsup'? How to Punctuate Questions. Gmoing Gmoing.
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published 2 years ago
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💌 Questions, Questions, So Many Questions!
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published 4 years ago
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published 3 years ago
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published 3 years ago
💌 Shibboleth. Greeting Card Grammar. Bunkaree.
published 4 years ago
💌 Why English has silent letters. Dayjamas.
published 2 years ago
💌 'Skrrt,' 'Bottle Episode,' 'Skeuomorphs' and more. An Interview with John Kelly of Dictionary.com.
published 4 years ago
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💌 How a special dictionary kept soldiers connected during WWII, with Peter Sokolowski
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published 3 years ago
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published 5 years ago
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published 4 years ago
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published 3 years ago
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published 3 years ago
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published 3 years ago
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published 3 years ago
💌 The Hedonometer and Your Feelings. What Does 'Schnozz' Mean?
published 5 years ago
💌 The Intrusive "Of." What Makes English Weird.
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published 5 years ago
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published 5 years ago
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published 4 years ago
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published 4 years ago
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published 4 years ago
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published 4 years ago
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published 3 years ago
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💌 Does Yoda speak 'real' English? Is it 'a real trouper' or 'a real trooper'?
published 4 weeks ago
💌 The case for language clarity, with Iva Cheung
published 3 weeks ago
💌 How to get started as a freelance writer
published 3 weeks ago
💌 What it really takes to translate Shakespeare, with Daniel Hahn
published 2 weeks ago
💌 The secret code of weather forecasts
published 2 weeks ago
💌 The bouba-kiki effect in baby chicks, with Dr. Maria Loconsole
published 12 days ago
💌 Why 'love' means 'zero' in tennis
published 7 days ago
💌 Randall Munroe of xkcd: Language Chat and Weird Bee Laws.
published 2 weeks ago
💌 Feghoots: Groan-worthy story puns. How your brain stores words.
published 3 months ago
💌 Fossil words, eponyms, and a miscellany of weird facts, with Jess Zafarris and Shannon Miller
published 5 days ago
💌 How many people is a 'troop'? Why spelling bees are called 'bees.'
published 6 weeks ago
💌 How to answer the question 'What's your book about?'
published 20 hours ago
💌 The hidden superpower of verbs, with Sarah L. Kaufman
published 2 months ago
💌 Tomi Adeyemi: The writing life
published 10 days ago
💌 The ‘Tale of Two Dictionaries,’ with Peter Sokolowski
published 3 months ago