Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing

848 Episodes

1. Memory, Aging, and the Lingering 'Anyways'

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Published: 1/16/2024
12. More than fluff: Understanding 'needless' words. Larruping. Chicken surprise.

    Published: 1/9/2024
13. The psychology (and language) of time. Commas are like people on the subway. Fox chores.

    Published: 1/2/2024
14. Why English has silent letters. Dayjamas.

    Published: 12/26/2023
15. A rizzy word-of-the-year chat (with Jess Zafarris)

    Published: 12/26/2023
16. The special sauce of human language. Gotten. NATO alphabet. A1 sauce.

    Published: 12/19/2023
17. What's the difference between Hispanic, Chicano, Latino, Latinx, and Latine? Can something 'grow' smaller? Musko.

    Published: 12/12/2023
18. When does a house become a mansion? Giving someone house.

    Published: 12/5/2023
19. From metal type to metaphor: printing terms that extended their reach. The positive 'anymore.' Gigglemare.

    Published: 11/28/2023
20. Why is Black Friday black? The NATO alphabet. Byeloveyou.

    Published: 11/21/2023