Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing

831 Episodes

1. 15 years of podcasting with Money Girl and Nutrition Diva

   Published: 7/21/2023
2. 'Less' versus 'fewer.' Fun names for fingers. Scunscreen.

   Published: 7/18/2023
3. 'Inspirational' or 'aspirational'? The surprising dangers of ChatGPT. Spaghetto.

   Published: 7/11/2023
4. Phrasal verb mysteries and minced oath origins. Night water.

   Published: 7/4/2023
5. Unlocking the mystery of 'ever words' and Latin abbreviations. Juna.

   Published: 6/27/2023
6. Why words can suddenly look unrecognizable. Learn to love the full stop. Marley.

   Published: 6/20/2023
7. Imagine life as a fiction editor (interview with Amy Schneider, author of the Chicago Guide to Copy Editing Fiction)

   Published: 6/13/2023
8. Darth Vader and the word 'father.' Comparatives and superlatives. Pritinear.

   Published: 6/6/2023
9. TV changes how you use language. When to use (and not use) 'more' and 'most'

   Published: 5/30/2023
10. Why the heck does 'score' mean 20? How we subconsciously know how to pronounce different plurals.

    Published: 5/23/2023
11. Why English is the best language for Wordle, with Lynne Murphy

    Published: 5/16/2023
12. It's all uphill from here (or is that downhill?). Eating like a pig (animal idioms).

    Published: 5/9/2023
13. What's wrong with 'there are' sentences? 5 fun facts about Spanish for Cinco de Mayo

    Published: 5/2/2023
14. Have you begged the question lately? What kind of learning is best: online, remote, distance, or virtual?

    Published: 4/25/2023
15. What we get wrong about 'um' and 'uh,' with Valerie Fridland

    Published: 4/18/2023
16. 5 things every writer wants to learn, with Roy Peter Clark

    Published: 4/11/2023
17. Killer bunnies in medieval manuscripts. The strange rules of 'dozen.'

    Published: 4/4/2023
18. The Rosetta Stone and taxes. Is your sufficiency suffonsified?

    Published: 3/28/2023
19. Why we have both 'a' and 'an.' What does it mean to be lonely? Sufficiency.

    Published: 3/21/2023
20. How 'napron' became 'apron' (and what that has to do with newts). 'Ahold' or 'a hold'?

    Published: 3/14/2023