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
May 24, 2013 • 9min
368 GG Hyphens
How to Use Hyphens.
May 17, 2013 • 9min
367 GG The Old Editor Says
John E. McIntyre, a veteran editor at The Baltimore Sun, shares pithy editing maxims from his new book.
May 10, 2013 • 9min
366 GG How Texting Is Changing English
How Texting Is Changing English
May 3, 2013 • 4min
285 GG "Moot" Versus "Mute"
Moot isn't moot, but it can mean something different in Britain and the U.S.
Apr 26, 2013 • 5min
365 GG The Language of Crime
The Language of Crime
Apr 19, 2013 • 5min
364 GG Why Would Anyone Use "The Chicago Manual of Style"?
Style guides.
Apr 12, 2013 • 9min
363 GG Writing Flashbacks
How to manage verb tense when writing flashbacks.
Apr 5, 2013 • 6min
362 GG Why Are Some Portmanteaus So Awful?
My failed entries for the Clorox Ick-tionary.
Mar 29, 2013 • 6min
361 GG Is That a Wool Sweater or a Woolen Sweater?
What to do when you can use an attributive noun or an adjective.
Mar 22, 2013 • 5min
051 GG I'm Good
Is it OK to answer "How are you?" with "I'm good"?
