Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing

848 Episodes

1. Is "Milk and Cookies" One Thing or Two? A New Language Term: The Santaback. Shoedabakers.

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

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

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

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

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

   Published: 11/18/2021
7. New Words from WWII. How Places Like Featherstonehaugh Get Their Names. Uncoming.

   Published: 11/11/2021
8. Editing an Anthology: 'Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed'

   Published: 11/4/2021
9. Is That a Tombstone, Gravestone, or Headstone? Why Is the Sound of a Human Scream So Terrifying?

   Published: 10/28/2021
10. Using Present Tense in a Story About the Past. Beck and Call. Tie-Dye Trees.

    Published: 10/21/2021
11. Surprise! These Names Are Trademarks. How to Write 'Dos and Don'ts' (or Is That 'Do's and Don'ts'?). Wording Your Mixes.

    Published: 10/14/2021
12. The Hedonometer and Your Feelings. What Does 'Schnozz' Mean?

    Published: 10/7/2021
13. How Do You Pronounce 'Tomato'? Why Is 'Chiropractic' Singular. Fish.

    Published: 9/30/2021
14. The Power of Very Specific Words, with Joel Schwartzberg

    Published: 9/23/2021
15. How to Really Talk Like a Pirate. When Do You Need a Comma Before 'Because'?

    Published: 9/16/2021
16. Why and When 'Very Unique' Is Wrong. Capitalizing 'Delta Variant' (or Not). Happy to You.

    Published: 9/9/2021
17. Naked Idioms. Short-Lived. Capitalizing Earth. Hector Protector.

    Published: 9/2/2021
18. The Origin of 'Honeymoon.' 'Where' Versus 'In Which.' Fevesteter.

    Published: 8/26/2021
19. Weird Words for Alcohol. Starting a Sentence with 'However.'

    Published: 8/19/2021
20. How Storytelling Makes a Difference (and How to Do It Well)

    Published: 8/13/2021