Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
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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.
Episodes
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Jul 19, 2013 • 8min
376 GG Why Do We Have Both A and An?
How English evolved to give us two indefinite articles (a and an), and the odd mix of possessive pronouns that don't quite match. Buy Grammar Girl's books: http://j.mp/allGGbooks Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Jul 11, 2013 • 10min
375 GG What Is It Called When You Mishear Song Lyrics?
Spoonerisms, Mondegreens, Malapropisms, and Eggcorns. Like the podcast? See Grammar Girl's books: http://j.mp/allGGbooks Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Jul 5, 2013 • 7min
374 GG Rebracketing
How to Make Weird Product Names Plural Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Jun 21, 2013 • 6min
372 GG Retronyms
Retronyms: Scourge of the Language or Helpful Tool? Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Jun 14, 2013 • 10min
371 GG Commma Splice
How to Avoid a Common Comma Error: The Comma Splice Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Jun 7, 2013 • 7min
370 GG Why Isn't "Gruntled" A Word?
Why Aren't We Gruntled When We're Happy? Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
May 31, 2013 • 8min
369 GG Why Does "I" Take Plural Verbs?
"I" is singular, so why do we say "I go" instead of "I goes"? Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
May 24, 2013 • 9min
368 GG Hyphens
How to Use Hyphens. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
May 10, 2013 • 9min
366 GG How Texting Is Changing English
How Texting Is Changing English Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
