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.
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The political, royal and obscene meanings of blue. The differences in ‘plumb’ and plum.’
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2025-10-14
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The fight for the modern dictionary, with Stefan Fatsis
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2025-10-09
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‘Math’ versus ‘maths’ and other British differences. ‘Spendthrift’ means what?
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2025-10-07
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Why ‘Useless Etymology’ gives you super powers, with Jess Zafarris
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2025-10-02
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Can you use ‘epicenter’ for positive things? The etymology of ‘bro.’ Mukwonago, Oconomowoc.
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2025-09-30
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Adapting a classic: from words to watercolors, with K. Woodman-Maynard
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2025-09-25
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Dime idioms. ‘HoCo’ and syllable acronyms. Pulling a Trevor
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2025-09-23
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How algorithms are changing the meaning of words, with Adam Aleksic
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2025-09-18
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The pirate history of ‘scallywag.’ ‘Used to’ versus ‘use to.’ Cheese grits.
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2025-09-16
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From clay tablets to the Gutenberg press, with Keith Houston
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2025-09-11
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Why we have indents. More on Formica. Running on Edgar.
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2025-09-09
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The surprising ways we gesture about time and space, with Lauren Gawne
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2025-09-04
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Vonnegut’s semicolon rule. What age has to do with language. Chocolate donut.
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2025-09-02
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Why we say 'near miss.' How dogs got their names. Stupid dog Jackie.
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2025-08-26
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How to build a successful writers’ newsletter, with Jane Friedman
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2025-08-21
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What is 'versing'? ‘Whatchamacallit' and other placeholder words. Chicken.
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2025-08-19
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AI's impact on translators, untranslatable Dutch words, and more, with Heddwen Newton
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2025-08-14
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Double possessives. Words that do double duty. The monkeys aren't working.
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2025-08-12
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New words: 'beer muscles' & 'waka jumpers,' with Fiona McPherson.
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2025-08-07
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How pronouns reveal our psychology. How'd we get our alphabet? Tabagogox.
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2025-08-05
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