Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing

842 Episodes

1. How Aphasia Causes Difficulty Speaking. Chairdrobe.

   Published: 31/03/2022
2. Why Tired People Talk About Being 'Out of Spoons.' Why Nouns Are More Complicated Than You May Think.

   Published: 24/03/2022
3. Barracking, Sheilas and Shouts: How the Irish Influenced Australian English

   Published: 17/03/2022
4. The Oxford Comma. And Should You Start a Sentence with 'And'?

   Published: 10/03/2022
5. Is 'Materiel' Just a Fancy Pronunciation of 'Material'? Are Binomials the Same Across Languages?

   Published: 3/03/2022
6. Why Do We Cringe at 'Pepper and Salt'? Why 'Square' Is Uncool. Quickquish.

   Published: 24/02/2022
7. What's Square About a Square Meal? How to Use Parentheses, Brackets, and Braces. Guck.

   Published: 17/02/2022
8. Are People Using 'Commiserate' Wrong? The Origin of (the Word) 'Influenza.' Hersband.

   Published: 10/02/2022
9. Do You Call In, Out, or Off Sick? How Kids Learn Language. Hexaboobiated.

   Published: 4/02/2022
10. Tips for Learning a New Language: The Fluent Show

    Published: 27/01/2022
11. Why 'Tiny' Sounds Smaller Than 'Huge.' Nixing the Horrid 'Of.' Kokopelli.

    Published: 20/01/2022
12. 'Strollout,' 'Insurrection,' 'Yassify,' and Other Words of the Year for 2021

    Published: 13/01/2022
13. Cardsharp. The Old-New Singular 'They.' Grignug.

    Published: 6/01/2022
14. Questions, Questions, So Many Questions!

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

    Published: 24/12/2021
16. How Lori Rader-Day Wrote a Historical Novel About War Evacuees in Agatha Christie's Vacation Home

    Published: 16/12/2021
17. Pretending to Be British. How to Use Ellipses. Spiders.

    Published: 9/12/2021
18. Shibboleth. Greeting Card Grammar. Bunkaree.

    Published: 3/12/2021
19. How to Use a Semicolon, Amirite? Partu.

    Published: 25/11/2021
20. Penultimate. Veni, Vidi, Vici. Smidge.

    Published: 18/11/2021