Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
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.
Latest episodes
Jan 8, 2015 • 32min
450 GG Is Sign Language Universal?
Tons of fascinating tidbits about sign language from interpreter David Peach
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Jan 1, 2015 • 10min
449 GG Double Possessives
Follow along on the website: Transitive Versus Intransitive Verbs http://j.mp/1AUkNaZ Double Possessives http://j.mp/1x8OVy2 Try my iOS game, Grammar Pop http://j.mp/1H5YiSj
Dec 25, 2014 • 12min
448 GG How Our Brains Process Hyperbole
Follow along on the website: Champ Versus Chomp http://j.mp/1Cp9TsZ Hyperbole http://j.mp/1HkXt6c Adulting http://j.mp/1sNOALZ
Dec 11, 2014 • 10min
446 GG Why Don't People Say "Thou" Anymore
Read along on the website: What Does "Xmas" Really Mean? http://bit.ly/1xkSUsL Why Don't People Say "Thou" Anymore? http://bit.ly/1sv4joy Who Says "Kitty-Corner" and Who Says "Catty-Corner" http://bit.ly/1yTXXkt Grammar Girl books make a great gift! http://bit.ly/1xkT3fC
Dec 4, 2014 • 15min
445 GG Why Do People Say "Like" All the Time?
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Is "Boughten" a Word?
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Did Valley Girls Invent "Like"?
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Is German Chocolate Cake from Germany?
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Nov 27, 2014 • 11min
444 GG Between You and Me
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Lightning versus Lightening
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Between You and Me
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How Teddy Bears Got Their Name
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Nov 13, 2014 • 12min
442 GG Make Me a Sandwich
Based on Versus Based off. Make Me a Sandwich: A Joke About Verbs. How to Pronounce Zero
Nov 6, 2014 • 12min
441 GG Mic or Mike? Simple or Simplistic? Uppercase and Lowercase
Mic or Mike? Simple or Simplistic? Uppercase and Lowercase. Visit the website: http://bit.ly/1qEiW2m
Oct 30, 2014 • 12min
440 GG How to Plan a Novel
For NaNoWriMo: How to format a character's thoughts, how to plan a novel, and the surprising newness of the novel format. Visit the website: http://bit.ly/13DNlJ8
Oct 23, 2014 • 12min
439 GG Texting, Coffins, and Death
Today, with Halloween in mind, I have a Quick and Dirty tip about the difference between a casket and a coffin; and an excerpt from David Crystal’s new book, Words in Time and Place, that goes through the many words we have for death and dying. Finally, I saw something shocking in a formal document a few weeks ago, so I have a tidbit about text messaging and language. Read the transcript: http://bit.ly/1sXJDC5
