Five-time winner of Best Education Podcast in the Podcast Awards. Grammar Girl provides short, frien
919. Rebracketing is a fascinating process that gives us more words than you might imagine, even wor
918. Since "drop" can mean both "to release" and "to cancel," it can get confusing. We look at how
917. For National Grammar Day, we answer one of the most common questions I get: How can I improve
916. Grant Faulkner, author of "The Art of Brevity" and executive director of NaNoWriMo talks with u
913. Love is much more than romance, and different languages reveal universal truths about the diffe
914. To mark the 50th anniversary of "Schoolhouse Rock," the Saturday morning cartoon that taught mi
913. This week brought us a silly kerfuffle in which the AP may have insulted France. Plus, we inves
912. We look at who the Teddy is in "teddy bears" and reveal why the Brothers Grimm, from fairytales
911. In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we cover a bunch of interesting things about labels suc
910. The final Grammar Girl word-of-the-year vote came down to "inflation" and "quiet quitting." We
909. In honor of 2023, we’ll talk about writing dates. And then we talk about a fascinating study ab
908. You had word-related questions after watching the World Cup. We have answers! And for the holid
907. The fabulous Kory Stamper, author of "Word by Word," joins me this week to talk about words of
906. A'wassailing. Noel. Mistletoe. Trolling the ancient Yuletide carol, and more. We look into the
905. Bonus Episode! You helped solve the mystery of my father's favorite childhood book. I also sha
903. "Through" and "throughout" may seem interchangeable, but they're not. We have some creative me
903. A listener heard some jargon, and then got annoyed by "said" jargon, so we explored why. Plus,
902. Language reflects culture, so it's no surprise that giving thanks hundreds of years ago was dif
901. WWII spawned a bunch of new words, including "boffin" and "bonkers." We'll look into the histor
900. The story of the @ symbol is much bigger than email. In fact, it was used for hundreds of years
