Grammar Girl

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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.

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Grammar Girl

Episodios

Min-maxxing, looksmaxxing, and Nixon-maxxing, with Roger Kreuz

Why do pirates say 'Arr'? Is it 'none is' or 'none are'?

Stray Russian words and made-up style rules, with Daniel Heuman and Chris Ryder

Who's a good boy? The science behind 'dog voice.' Is it 'bated breath' or 'baited breath'?

How we got from no spaces between words to the interrobang, with Florence Hazrat

Why do so many last names sound like jobs?

Explosions, chemistry, and dictionary 'spite,' with Kory Stamper

It's Greek to me: Why is the language of 'The Odyssey' shorthand for all that we don’t understand?

Sarah L. Kaufman on the shared rhythm of dance, critical writing, and finding better verbs

What 'kith and kin' and 'beck and call' have in common

Word wagons and bobbasheelys: Life at DARE, with Joan Houston Hall

Why does 'shh' mean the same thing in so many languages, and what's 'broad' about daylight?

How comics are made, with Glenn Fleishman

Why does the U.S. have so many regional accents?

Why "golly" and "gosh" are going the way of the dinosaur, with Sali Tagliamonte

The secret language of gamers. Plus, why ducks don't ‘duck’ from danger

'Writing for AI' and the flaws of AI detectors, with Sean Goedecke

Shark Week: 6 sayings from pop culture

Decoding the Chinese character paradox, with Dr. Charles Kemp

Isn't it ironic? Plus, the man behind the guillotine

Saving Canadian lexicography, with John Chew

Snowclones: fill-in-the-blank phrases we can’t stop remixing. Plus, is it 'RBIs' or 'RBI'?

Building a beloved resource for word lovers, with Doug Harper

How to answer the question 'What's your book about?'

Fossil words, eponyms, and a miscellany of weird facts, with Jess Zafarris and Shannon Miller

Why 'love' means 'zero' in tennis

Tomi Adeyemi: The writing life

The bouba-kiki effect in baby chicks, with Dr. Maria Loconsole

The secret code of weather forecasts

Randall Munroe of xkcd: Language chat and weird bee laws.

What it really takes to translate Shakespeare, with Daniel Hahn

How to get started as a freelance writer

The case for language clarity, with Iva Cheung

Does Yoda speak 'real' English? Is it 'a real trouper' or 'a real trooper'?

Everyone has a story to tell, and why your memoir matters, with Grant Faulkner

How ‘bee’s knees’ became high praise, and why do recipes sound so bossy?

Why your topic isn't a point (and how to fix it), with Joel Schwartzberg

How many people is a 'troop'? Why spelling bees are called 'bees.'

The hidden logic of English spelling, with Colin Gorrie

How the Crusades gave us 'lingua franca.' 'That' or 'who' for animals? Doot doot doot

Meeting the new editor, with AP Stylebook's Anna Jo Bratton

Decoding the colon: AP vs. MLA style. Plus, words with no known origin.

The hidden superpower of verbs, with Sarah L. Kaufman

Why English creates so many words spelled the same. Why we say 'ye olde' instead of 'the old.'

'Why We Talk Funny.' The reasons behind our accents, with Valerie Fridland

Should you start a sentence with 'hopefully'? Why we might not recognize alien language.

Inside the life of a curator (and the myth of white gloves), with John Overholt.

Why 'stressed' spelled backwards reveals a delicious truth. 'Me' versus 'myself'

Losing clients to AI, and how to gain them back, with Suzanne Bowness

What the way we pronounce Iran says about us. Odorous or malodorous? When smell words stink.