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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                                                    810 - Words out of Time. Why 'OK' Is OK.
                                                
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                                            2021-02-11
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                                                    809 - Rethink Descriptions Like 'Diabetic.' The Wonderful World of Italics,
                                                
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                                            2021-02-04
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                                                    808 - 6 Latin Abbreviations You Should Know. 'Imply' or 'Infer'?
                                                
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                                            2021-01-28
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                                                    807 - Why We Call Them Sea 'Shanties.' A Trick to Remember How to Spell 'Conscience'
                                                
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                                            2021-01-21
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                                                    806 - Why You Should Try Fanfiction. How to Find Tricky Pronunciations.
                                                
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                                            2021-01-14
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                                                    805 - 'Acedia': the lost name for the emotion we're all feeling right now
                                                
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                                            2021-01-07
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                                                    804 - Another Think/Thing Coming. 'Sanction,' 'Cleave,' 'Dust,' and More
                                                
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                                            2020-12-31
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                                                    803 - Pandemic, COVID, anderhalvemetersamenleving: 2020 Words of the Year
                                                
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                                            2020-12-24
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                                                    802 - Brandon Sanderson on Writing, Character and Place Names, and the Future
                                                
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                                            2020-12-17
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                                                    801 - How to Get Your 'Just Deserts.' Comma After 'But'? Why?
                                                
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                                            2020-12-10
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                                                    800 - What Did You Step On? And Is That a Desert or a Dessert?
                                                
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                                            2020-12-03
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                                                    799 - What 'Whence' Has to Do with 'Where Are You At?' 'Regime' or 'Regimen'?
                                                
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                                            2020-11-26
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                                                    798 - Why 'Hilarious' Is Funnier than 'Hysterical.' How to Start a Novel.
                                                
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                                            2020-11-19
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                                                    797 - Why Dickens' Character Names Are So Revealing. 'Continual' or 'Continuous'?
                                                
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                                            2020-11-12
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                                                    796 - What Is a 'Crony'? Why Doesn’t 'Veterans Day' Have an Apostrophe?
                                                
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                                            2020-11-06
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                                                    795 - Why People Use Scare Quotes. 'Dialog' or 'Dialogue'?
                                                
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                                            2020-10-29
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                                                    794 - Create Characters as Great as Hamlet. How to Format Internal Dialogue
                                                
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                                            2020-10-22
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                                                    793 - Why Journalists Use Misspellings Like 'Lede' and 'Spox'
                                                
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                                            2020-10-15
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                                                    792 - A Totally, Like, Bitchin' Podcast About 'Like'
                                                
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                                            2020-10-08
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                                                    791 - 'Although' Versus 'While.' Why We Write with Cliches (and How to Stop)
                                                
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                                            2020-10-01
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