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.
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Stray Russian words and made-up style rules, with Daniel Heuman and Chris Ryder
Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
Who's a good boy? The science behind 'dog voice.' Is it 'bated breath' or 'baite...
Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
How we got from no spaces between words to the interrobang, with Florence Hazrat
Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
Why do so many last names sound like jobs?
Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
Explosions, chemistry, and dictionary 'spite,' with Kory Stamper
Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
It's Greek to me: Why is the language of 'The Odyssey' shorthand for all that we...
Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
Sarah L. Kaufman on the shared rhythm of dance, critical writing, and finding be...
Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
What 'kith and kin' and 'beck and call' have in common
Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
Word wagons and bobbasheelys: Life at DARE, with Joan Houston Hall
Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
Why does 'shh' mean the same thing in so many languages, and what's 'broad' abou...
Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
How comics are made, with Glenn Fleishman
Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
Why does the U.S. have so many regional accents?
Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
Why "golly" and "gosh" are going the way of the dinosaur, with Sali Tagliamonte
Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
The secret language of gamers. Plus, why ducks don't ‘duck’ from danger
Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
'Writing for AI' and the flaws of AI detectors, with Sean Goedecke
Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
Shark Week: 6 sayings from pop culture
Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
Decoding the Chinese character paradox, with Dr. Charles Kemp
Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
Isn't it ironic? Plus, the man behind the guillotine
Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
Saving Canadian lexicography, with John Chew
Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
Snowclones: fill-in-the-blank phrases we can’t stop remixing. Plus, is it 'RBIs'...
Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
Building a beloved resource for word lovers, with Doug Harper
Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
How to answer the question 'What's your book about?'
Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
Fossil words, eponyms, and a miscellany of weird facts, with Jess Zafarris and S...
Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
Why 'love' means 'zero' in tennis
Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
Tomi Adeyemi: The writing life
Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
The bouba-kiki effect in baby chicks, with Dr. Maria Loconsole
Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
The secret code of weather forecasts
Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
Randall Munroe of xkcd: Language chat and weird bee laws.
Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
What it really takes to translate Shakespeare, with Daniel Hahn
Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
How to get started as a freelance writer
Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
The case for language clarity, with Iva Cheung
Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
Does Yoda speak 'real' English? Is it 'a real trouper' or 'a real trooper'?
Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
Everyone has a story to tell, and why your memoir matters, with Grant Faulkner
Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
How ‘bee’s knees’ became high praise, and why do recipes sound so bossy?
Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
Why your topic isn't a point (and how to fix it), with Joel Schwartzberg
Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
How many people is a 'troop'? Why spelling bees are called 'bees.'
Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
The hidden logic of English spelling, with Colin Gorrie
Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
How the Crusades gave us 'lingua franca.' 'That' or 'who' for animals? Doot doot...
Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
Meeting the new editor, with AP Stylebook's Anna Jo Bratton
Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
Decoding the colon: AP vs. MLA style. Plus, words with no known origin.
Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
The hidden superpower of verbs, with Sarah L. Kaufman
Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
Why English creates so many words spelled the same. Why we say 'ye olde' instead...
Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
'Why We Talk Funny.' The reasons behind our accents, with Valerie Fridland
Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
Should you start a sentence with 'hopefully'? Why we might not recognize alien l...
Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
Inside the life of a curator (and the myth of white gloves), with John Overholt.
Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
Why 'stressed' spelled backwards reveals a delicious truth. 'Me' versus 'myself'
Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
Losing clients to AI, and how to gain them back, with Suzanne Bowness
Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
What the way we pronounce Iran says about us. Odorous or malodorous? When smell...
Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
The 3,000 hidden colors of the dictionary, with Kory Stamper
Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
Denim: Secret place names hiding in plain sight. Why the principal is more than...
Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing