Podcasts

Why is Black Friday black? The NATO alphabet. Byeloveyou.

Published: Nov. 21, 2023, 10 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 2 seconds

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The Science of the Plot Twist. Irregardless. Spug.

Published: Nov. 14, 2023, 10 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 39 seconds

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Omnishambles! Military Slang Across the Pond (Interview with Ben Yagoda)

Published: Nov. 7, 2023, 10 a.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 35 seconds

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Cliches. Organic. Bully Pulpit. Fimfy.

Published: Oct. 31, 2023, 12:35 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 39 seconds

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The Dark Histories Behind Your Favorite Scary Words, with Jess Zafarris

Published: Oct. 24, 2023, 9 a.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 23 seconds

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Namesake. Commentate. Sprigly

Published: Oct. 17, 2023, 9 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 31 seconds

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How to write great topic sentences. Fanilects. Throwawayable.

Published: Oct. 10, 2023, 9 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 7 seconds

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When 'nice' was bad and 'bully' was good. Is 'preorder' redundant? High-intensity transformer.

Published: Oct. 3, 2023, 9 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 28 seconds

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Think faster and talk smarter. Tips from Matt Abrahams that will make you a better writer and speaker

Published: Sept. 26, 2023, 9 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 36 seconds

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Did Disney nail the pronunciation of 'Caribbean'? How to write equations. Chuther.

Published: Sept. 19, 2023, 9 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 15 seconds

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When you shouldn't 'write tight.' 'Behead' versus 'decapitate.' YesHony.

Published: Sept. 5, 2023, 9 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 48 seconds

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Say hwat?! 'Anxious' versus 'eager.' Pink stein.

Published: Aug. 29, 2023, 9 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 24 seconds

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The wonders of the 'a-' prefix in English. 'Personal' versus 'personnel.'

Published: Aug. 22, 2023, 9 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 50 seconds

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Hilarious typos (and how to avoid them). Why do we 'take' a walk?

Published: Aug. 15, 2023, 9 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 56 seconds

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Have you ridden an acoustic bike lately? Write it tight.

Published: Aug. 8, 2023, 9 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 36 seconds

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Did you know that on US Army bases, soldiers get a tattoo every day? Keep writing.

Published: Aug. 1, 2023, 9 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 28 seconds

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People have ~feelings~ about the exclamation point (Florence Hazrat interview)

Published: July 25, 2023, 9 a.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 20 seconds

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15 years of podcasting with Money Girl and Nutrition Diva

Published: July 21, 2023, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 48 seconds

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'Less' versus 'fewer.' Fun names for fingers. Scunscreen.

Published: July 18, 2023, 9 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 51 seconds

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'Inspirational' or 'aspirational'? The surprising dangers of ChatGPT. Spaghetto.

Published: July 11, 2023, 9 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 3 seconds

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Phrasal verb mysteries and minced oath origins. Night water.

Published: July 4, 2023, 9 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes

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Unlocking the mystery of 'ever words' and Latin abbreviations. Juna.

Published: June 27, 2023, 9 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 17 seconds

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Why words can suddenly look unrecognizable. Learn to love the full stop. Marley.

Published: June 20, 2023, 9 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 4 seconds

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Darth Vader and the word 'father.' Comparatives and superlatives. Pritinear.

Published: June 6, 2023, 9 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 9 seconds

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TV changes how you use language. When to use (and not use) 'more' and 'most'

Published: May 30, 2023, 9 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 46 seconds

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Why the heck does 'score' mean 20? How we subconsciously know how to pronounce different plurals.

Published: May 23, 2023, 9 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 25 seconds

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Why English is the best language for Wordle, with Lynne Murphy

Published: May 16, 2023, 9 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 44 seconds

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It's all uphill from here (or is that downhill?). Eating like a pig (animal idioms).

Published: May 9, 2023, 9 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 55 seconds

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What's wrong with 'there are' sentences? 5 fun facts about Spanish for Cinco de Mayo

Published: May 2, 2023, 9 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 24 seconds

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Have you begged the question lately? What kind of learning is best: online, remote, distance, or virtual?

Published: April 25, 2023, 9 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 19 seconds

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What we get wrong about 'um' and 'uh,' with Valerie Fridland

Published: April 18, 2023, 9 a.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 14 seconds

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5 things every writer wants to learn, with Roy Peter Clark

Published: April 11, 2023, 9 a.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 29 seconds

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Killer bunnies in medieval manuscripts. The strange rules of 'dozen.'

Published: April 4, 2023, 9 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 34 seconds

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The Rosetta Stone and taxes. Is your sufficiency suffonsified?

Published: March 28, 2023, 9 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 15 seconds

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Why we have both 'a' and 'an.' What does it mean to be lonely? Sufficiency.

Published: March 21, 2023, 9 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 13 seconds

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How 'napron' became 'apron' (and what that has to do with newts). 'Ahold' or 'a hold'?

Published: March 14, 2023, 9 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes

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Why do people 'drop' a new single? How to pronounce 'often.'

Published: March 7, 2023, 10 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 34 seconds

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How to actually improve your grammar. Why parallelism is important (and how to use it). Keycoos.

Published: Feb. 28, 2023, 10 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 50 seconds

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How writing very short stories can improve all your writing (with Grant Faulkner)

Published: Feb. 21, 2023, 1:55 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 11 seconds

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Language reveals universal truths about love. 'Wool sweater' or 'woolen sweater'? Grandmother crackers.

Published: Feb. 14, 2023, 10 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 22 seconds

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Interview with a creator of 'Schoolhouse Rock'!

Published: Feb. 7, 2023, 10 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 4 seconds

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What Does the AP Have Against France? Out Over Your Skis. Lands' End. Tolater.

Published: Jan. 31, 2023, 10 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 3 seconds

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Teddy Bears. The Brothers Grimm. Danger Cluck.

Published: Jan. 24, 2023, 10 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 6 seconds

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Weird punctuation with 'Jr.' Carl's Jr. Hockey.

Published: Jan. 17, 2023, 10 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 55 seconds

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Inflation, quiet quitting, and "un-" words, like "undressed," that can have two meanings. Gotcha Day.

Published: Jan. 10, 2023, 2:20 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 11 seconds

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How COVID Changed the Way We Think About Words. How to Write Dates. Prefeed.

Published: Jan. 3, 2023, 10 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 59 seconds

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World Cup Words. The Origin of Toasting. Says.

Published: Dec. 27, 2022, 10 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 47 seconds

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Goblin Mode, Woman, & More. Words of the Year, with Kory Stamper

Published: Dec. 20, 2022, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 54 seconds

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The Wonderful Words of Christmas

Published: Dec. 13, 2022, 10 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 44 seconds

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We found the book!

Published: Dec. 6, 2022, 10 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 21 seconds

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What's a Honeyfuggler? 'Through' vs. 'Throughout.' Arriversary.

Published: Dec. 2, 2022, 6:20 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 46 seconds

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A Strange Use of 'Said.' Kith and Kin. New Scrabble Words!

Published: Nov. 25, 2022, 6:45 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 33 seconds

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Why Today's 'Thank You' Is Different from an Ancient 'Thank You.' Gerunds.

Published: Nov. 18, 2022, 7 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 58 seconds

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WWII Words. A 'bit' of an Issue. Kleenex.

Published: Nov. 11, 2022, 7:30 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 23 seconds

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The Medieval Origins of the @ Symbol. Hyphens in Dual-Heritage Terms. Pitch.

Published: Nov. 4, 2022, 6:15 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 37 seconds

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The Difference Between Magic and Magick. Some Fascinating Spooky Words. Holy Fagachi!

Published: Oct. 28, 2022, 6:55 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 18 seconds

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Randall Munroe of xkcd: Language Chat and Weird Bee Laws.

Published: Oct. 21, 2022, 7 a.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 50 seconds

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The Subconscious Rules of Conversation. The Double-Word Problem. Cookie Fish.

Published: Oct. 14, 2022, 4:30 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 58 seconds

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Wick-ED Fun Pronunciations. Deviled Eggs.

Published: Oct. 7, 2022, 6 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 15 seconds

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When Is a Man a Widow? Where Do We Get the Word 'Blurb'? Sci-Fi Versus Fantasy. Bert and Ernie.

Published: Sept. 30, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 16 seconds

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Mood & Atmosphere in Fiction. An Interview with Joshua Essoe

Published: Sept. 23, 2022, 4 a.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 46 seconds

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Split Infinitives. I Can't Even. Macken.

Published: Sept. 16, 2022, 6 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 31 seconds

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Why Some People Say 'Might Could.' The Spanish Influence on English. Mickle Story.

Published: Sept. 9, 2022, 6 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 16 seconds

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Accent Hallucination. False Ranges. Thanks, Chris.

Published: Sept. 2, 2022, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 35 seconds

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'Skrrt,' 'Bottle Episode,' 'Skeuomorphs' and more. An Interview with John Kelly of Dictionary.com.

Published: Aug. 26, 2022, 6 a.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 38 seconds

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What's up with Splooting? Capitalizing Titles. Momilltellya.

Published: Aug. 19, 2022, 4 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 24 seconds

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How Gendered Languages Are Changing. Jugopop.

Published: Aug. 12, 2022, 6:30 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 16 seconds

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How Using Pliers Improves Your Language. Weird Possessives. Ducky File.

Published: Aug. 5, 2022, 6:30 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 13 seconds

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A Riotous Good Time with Ellen Jovin of the Grammar Table

Published: July 29, 2022, 7:15 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 25 seconds

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Ripe. Lede. Prevent. Awesome. Fulsome. MacGuffin. Daisy.

Published: July 22, 2022, 3 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 12 seconds

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Why Nobody Says 'You're Welcome' Anymore. Whose. Chimichanga.

Published: July 15, 2022, 6 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 16 seconds

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Code-Switching. Mignon Snaps Over Numbers. Foomp.

Published: July 8, 2022, 6:30 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 51 seconds

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Surprising Words Related to 'Freedom.' Double Subjects. Foop.

Published: July 1, 2022, 3 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 21 seconds

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'Ant' or 'Ahnt'? Capitalizing Cocktail Names. Archie Bunker.

Published: June 24, 2022, 2 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 13 seconds

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The Many Meanings of 'Father.' How Watergate Changed English. Punim

Published: June 17, 2022, 3 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 41 seconds

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Demonyms: Why People from North Carolina Are Called Tar Heels. 'Healthy' Versus 'Healthful.' Sussies 3!

Published: June 10, 2022, midnight
Duration: 20 minutes 16 seconds

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Are Wisdom Teeth Smart? Capitalizing Degree Names. Sussies 2

Published: June 3, 2022, midnight
Duration: 15 minutes 29 seconds

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Whatever Happened to "Thou"?

Published: May 27, 2022, midnight
Duration: 14 minutes 58 seconds

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How Spellers Tackle the 'Dreaded Schwa'

Published: May 20, 2022, midnight
Duration: 17 minutes 12 seconds

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Why "'Em" Isn't Short for "Them." The Subjunctive. Sussies.

Published: May 13, 2022, midnight
Duration: 15 minutes 35 seconds

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Tomi Adeyemi: The Writing Life and Her New Writing Course.

Published: May 6, 2022, 1 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 27 seconds

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Scissors, Jeans, and Other Nouns That Are Always Plural. Flat Adverbs. Boteep.

Published: April 28, 2022, 6 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 20 seconds

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If Earth Looks Like a Blue Marble, Why Is Earth Day Associated with the Color Green? Also, 'Funnest.'

Published: April 21, 2022, 6 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 39 seconds

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You Know. Doppelganger. Trademarks. Funnily. Chicken Milk.

Published: April 14, 2022, 7 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 21 seconds

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I Cannot Tell a Lie (but I Can Mislead)! And Sometimes People Do It With Percentages.

Published: April 8, 2022, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 38 seconds

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How Aphasia Causes Difficulty Speaking. Chairdrobe.

Published: March 31, 2022, 7 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 4 seconds

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Why Tired People Talk About Being 'Out of Spoons.' Why Nouns Are More Complicated Than You May Think.

Published: March 24, 2022, 7 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 52 seconds

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Barracking, Sheilas and Shouts: How the Irish Influenced Australian English

Published: March 17, 2022, 6 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 34 seconds

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The Oxford Comma. And Should You Start a Sentence with 'And'?

Published: March 10, 2022, 7 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 50 seconds

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Is 'Materiel' Just a Fancy Pronunciation of 'Material'? Are Binomials the Same Across Languages?

Published: March 3, 2022, 6 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 42 seconds

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Why Do We Cringe at 'Pepper and Salt'? Why 'Square' Is Uncool. Quickquish.

Published: Feb. 24, 2022, 8 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes

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What's Square About a Square Meal? How to Use Parentheses, Brackets, and Braces. Guck.

Published: Feb. 17, 2022, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 10 seconds

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Are People Using 'Commiserate' Wrong? The Origin of (the Word) 'Influenza.' Hersband.

Published: Feb. 10, 2022, 5 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes

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Do You Call In, Out, or Off Sick? How Kids Learn Language. Hexaboobiated.

Published: Feb. 4, 2022, 7 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 37 seconds

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Tips for Learning a New Language: The Fluent Show

Published: Jan. 27, 2022, 6 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 49 seconds

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Why 'Tiny' Sounds Smaller Than 'Huge.' Nixing the Horrid 'Of.' Kokopelli.

Published: Jan. 20, 2022, 5 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 20 seconds

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'Strollout,' 'Insurrection,' 'Yassify,' and Other Words of the Year for 2021

Published: Jan. 13, 2022, 9 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 11 seconds

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Cardsharp. The Old-New Singular 'They.' Grignug.

Published: Jan. 6, 2022, 7 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 10 seconds

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Questions, Questions, So Many Questions!

Published: Dec. 30, 2021, 6 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 12 seconds

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Is "Milk and Cookies" One Thing or Two? A New Language Term: The Santaback. Shoedabakers.

Published: Dec. 24, 2021, 11 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 18 seconds

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How Lori Rader-Day Wrote a Historical Novel About War Evacuees in Agatha Christie's Vacation Home

Published: Dec. 16, 2021, 10 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 30 seconds

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Pretending to Be British. How to Use Ellipses. Spiders.

Published: Dec. 9, 2021, 6 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 10 seconds

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Shibboleth. Greeting Card Grammar. Bunkaree.

Published: Dec. 3, 2021, 8 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 40 seconds

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How to Use a Semicolon, Amirite? Partu.

Published: Nov. 25, 2021, 6 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 29 seconds

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Penultimate. Veni, Vidi, Vici. Smidge.

Published: Nov. 18, 2021, 6 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 33 seconds

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New Words from WWII. How Places Like Featherstonehaugh Get Their Names. Uncoming.

Published: Nov. 11, 2021, 7 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 46 seconds

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Editing an Anthology: 'Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed'

Published: Nov. 4, 2021, 7 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 14 seconds

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Is That a Tombstone, Gravestone, or Headstone? Why Is the Sound of a Human Scream So Terrifying?

Published: Oct. 28, 2021, 9 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 25 seconds

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Using Present Tense in a Story About the Past. Beck and Call. Tie-Dye Trees.

Published: Oct. 21, 2021, 11 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 20 seconds

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The Hedonometer and Your Feelings. What Does 'Schnozz' Mean?

Published: Oct. 7, 2021, 6 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 4 seconds

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How Do You Pronounce 'Tomato'? Why Is 'Chiropractic' Singular. Fish.

Published: Sept. 30, 2021, 6 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 35 seconds

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The Power of Very Specific Words, with Joel Schwartzberg

Published: Sept. 23, 2021, 9 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 58 seconds

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How to Really Talk Like a Pirate. When Do You Need a Comma Before 'Because'?

Published: Sept. 16, 2021, 6 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 49 seconds

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Why and When 'Very Unique' Is Wrong. Capitalizing 'Delta Variant' (or Not). Happy to You.

Published: Sept. 9, 2021, 6 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 18 seconds

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Naked Idioms. Short-Lived. Capitalizing Earth. Hector Protector.

Published: Sept. 2, 2021, 6 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 52 seconds

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The Origin of 'Honeymoon.' 'Where' Versus 'In Which.' Fevesteter.

Published: Aug. 26, 2021, 6 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 3 seconds

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Weird Words for Alcohol. Starting a Sentence with 'However.' Fam-ished.

Published: Aug. 19, 2021, 6 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 53 seconds

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How Storytelling Makes a Difference (and How to Do It Well)

Published: Aug. 13, 2021, 9:45 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 40 seconds

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What's the Opposite of Deja Vu? Commas Between Adjectives

Published: Aug. 5, 2021, 6 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 48 seconds

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The Best Stories from 15 Years of Grammar Girl

Published: July 29, 2021, 6 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 36 seconds

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What the Two Spellings of Stationary/ery Have to Do with Booksellers. Why Pronunciations Change.

Published: July 22, 2021, 9 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 13 seconds

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'Fish' or 'Fishes'? Why Do We Call Out 'Nothing' as 'Bupkis'?

Published: July 15, 2021, 6 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 40 seconds

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'If' Versus 'Whether.' Why We Say 'The Exception That Proves the Rule.'

Published: July 8, 2021, 6 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 11 seconds

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Trundle, Amble, Roam, and Shamble. How Some Preposition Use Has Changed Over Time.

Published: July 1, 2021, 11:15 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 11 seconds

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Pedantic Nonsense Up with Which I Will Not Put! 'Discreet' or 'Discrete'?

Published: June 24, 2021, 10 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 7 seconds

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Starting a Sentence with a Conjunction: Right or Wrong? Good 'Subpar' and Bad 'Subpar.'

Published: June 17, 2021, 5 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 44 seconds

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How Long Is a Good Sentence? 'Cord' or 'Chord'? Grumple.

Published: June 10, 2021, 5 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 35 seconds

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What Made 'Friends' Funny. How Cicadas Got Their Name. Dog Replacer.

Published: June 3, 2021, 7 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 40 seconds

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Is 'Graduated College' Wrong? Five Wonderful Latin Phrases.

Published: May 27, 2021, 5 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 43 seconds

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'Bring,' 'Take,' and 'Carry.' 'The Queen's Gambit.' Sweepy Thing.

Published: May 20, 2021, 5 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 11 seconds

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Writing Dialogue. 'Associate Degree' or 'Associate's Degree'? Wiffy.

Published: May 13, 2021, 7 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 17 seconds

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'Ketchup' or 'Catsup'? How to Punctuate Questions. Gmoing Gmoing.

Published: May 6, 2021, 6 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 43 seconds

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What Does Op-Ed Really Mean? The Perfect Paragraph Length. Items.

Published: April 29, 2021, 6 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 19 seconds

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The Intrusive "Of." What Makes English Weird.

Published: April 22, 2021, 6 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 18 seconds

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How to Write Faster. The Origin of the Odd Letter W

Published: April 15, 2021, 8 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 41 seconds

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'Borrow' and 'Lend.' When to Use 'Nor.' Boncho.

Published: April 8, 2021, 6 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 12 seconds

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Squirrelly Animal Verbs. 'People,' 'Peoples,' and 'Persons': Why It Matters.

Published: April 1, 2021, 6 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 28 seconds

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'Normalcy' or 'Normality'? A Punctuation Question from a Famous Movie Line. Taco Cats.

Published: March 18, 2021, 7 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 2 seconds

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It's Not Just March. Other Months Have 'Ides' Too! Are You on the Pig's Back Today?

Published: March 11, 2021, 11 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 23 seconds

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813 - The History of National Grammar Day. My Favorite Resources. Anniversity

Published: March 4, 2021, 11:30 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 1 second

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812 - Kibosh. Sidekicks. Misolation.

Published: Feb. 25, 2021, 11 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 28 seconds

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811 - Inigo Montoya and Coining Phrases. 'Dose' or 'Dosage'?

Published: Feb. 18, 2021, 11 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 48 seconds

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810 - Words out of Time. Why 'OK' Is OK.

Published: Feb. 11, 2021, 6 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 22 seconds

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809 - Rethink Descriptions Like 'Diabetic.' The Wonderful World of Italics,

Published: Feb. 4, 2021, 11 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 24 seconds

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808 - 6 Latin Abbreviations You Should Know. 'Imply' or 'Infer'?

Published: Jan. 28, 2021, 6 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 47 seconds

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807 - Why We Call Them Sea 'Shanties.' A Trick to Remember How to Spell 'Conscience'

Published: Jan. 21, 2021, 6 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 15 seconds

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806 - Why You Should Try Fanfiction. How to Find Tricky Pronunciations.

Published: Jan. 14, 2021, 9 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 13 seconds

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805 - 'Acedia': the lost name for the emotion we're all feeling right now

Published: Jan. 7, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 8 seconds

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804 - Another Think/Thing Coming. 'Sanction,' 'Cleave,' 'Dust,' and More

Published: Dec. 31, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 21 seconds

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803 - Pandemic, COVID, anderhalvemetersamenleving: 2020 Words of the Year

Published: Dec. 24, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 50 seconds

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802 - Brandon Sanderson on Writing, Character and Place Names, and the Future

Published: Dec. 17, 2020, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 8 seconds

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801 - How to Get Your 'Just Deserts.' Comma After 'But'? Why?

Published: Dec. 10, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 54 seconds

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800 - What Did You Step On? And Is That a Desert or a Dessert?

Published: Dec. 3, 2020, 3 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 36 seconds

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799 - What 'Whence' Has to Do with 'Where Are You At?' 'Regime' or 'Regimen'?

Published: Nov. 26, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 42 seconds

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798 - Why 'Hilarious' Is Funnier than 'Hysterical.' How to Start a Novel.

Published: Nov. 19, 2020, 9 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 30 seconds

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797 - Why Dickens' Character Names Are So Revealing. 'Continual' or 'Continuous'?

Published: Nov. 12, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 28 seconds

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796 - What Is a 'Crony'? Why Doesnt 'Veterans Day' Have an Apostrophe?

Published: Nov. 6, 2020, 1:15 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 35 seconds

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795 - Why People Use Scare Quotes. 'Dialog' or 'Dialogue'?

Published: Oct. 29, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 48 seconds

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794 - Create Characters as Great as Hamlet. How to Format Internal Dialogue

Published: Oct. 22, 2020, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 41 seconds

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793 - Why Journalists Use Misspellings Like 'Lede' and 'Spox'

Published: Oct. 15, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 30 seconds

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792 - A Totally, Like, Bitchin' Podcast About 'Like'

Published: Oct. 8, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 58 seconds

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791 - 'Although' Versus 'While.' Why We Write with Cliches (and How to Stop)

Published: Oct. 1, 2020, 8 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 50 seconds

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790 - 'Laureate' Is Good. Why Is 'Resting on Your Laurels' Bad? 'Smarmy.'

Published: Sept. 24, 2020, 7 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 21 seconds

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789 - How to Make Your Readers Laugh. 'Whoa' or 'Woah'?

Published: Sept. 17, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 52 seconds

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788 - Why 'Out of Pocket' Means Both 'Inappropriate' and 'Unavailable'

Published: Sept. 10, 2020, 11:30 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 1 second

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787 - Why We Associate Political Parties with the Colors Red and Blue

Published: Sept. 3, 2020, 9 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 40 seconds

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786 - 'Doomscrolling' (OK, Doomer). 'Each Other' or 'One Another'?

Published: Aug. 27, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 38 seconds

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785 - 'Gantlet' or 'Gauntlet'? Do You Want to Say 'Had Went'?

Published: Aug. 20, 2020, 7 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 12 seconds

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784 - A Historical Tip for Remembering When to Use 'Historical.' Put More Thought into Your Punctuation.

Published: Aug. 13, 2020, 10:30 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 40 seconds

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783 - How Hurricanes Get Their Names. When You Should Avoid Using Contractions.

Published: Aug. 6, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 10 seconds

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782 - What are those dots over letters? Why does 'money' have a plural, and how do you spell it?

Published: July 30, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 20 seconds

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781 - Blursday or Whensday? Middle Grade Versus Young Adult Fiction

Published: July 23, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 31 seconds

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780 - Which Comes First? Who or Where?

Published: July 16, 2020, 7 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 49 seconds

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779 - How You Can Help the OED. Capitalizing 'Black.' How Playwriting Techniques Can Improve Your Writing.

Published: July 9, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 15 seconds

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778 - Do We Say 'Red Skies at Night, Sailor's Delight' Because of the Saharan Dust Plumes? Also, 'Yoiks!'

Published: July 2, 2020, 11 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 3 seconds

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777 - How to Write Fight Scenes (and How to Get Started as a Fiction Editor)

Published: June 25, 2020, 5:30 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 7 seconds

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776 - Why a Detective Searched for 'Clews' in a 1929 Novel. Systemic or Systematic?

Published: June 18, 2020, 10 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 59 seconds

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775 - Why We Talk About 'Bad Apples.' 'A Few' Versus 'a Couple'

Published: June 11, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 22 seconds

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774 - Roy Peter Clark on Civic Clarity

Published: June 4, 2020, 10 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 15 seconds

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773 - Postal Zones. Reenter. Bougie.

Published: May 28, 2020, 10 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 40 seconds

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772 - The History of ZIP Codes and Addresses (Plus How to Write Them)

Published: May 21, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 49 seconds

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771 - Writing Lessons from Bad Job Applications

Published: May 14, 2020, 5:30 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 42 seconds

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770 - 'Muslim' or 'Moslem'? 'Fishfolk'? 'Fishist'? What Is the Gender-Neutral Term for 'Fisherman'?

Published: May 7, 2020, 11:30 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 19 seconds

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769 - Why Do We Say 'Cool Your Heels'? What's Up With 'Zhuzh'?

Published: April 30, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 5 seconds

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768 - Why Aren't We 'Whelmed'? And Cabin 'Fever,' Anyone?

Published: April 23, 2020, 8 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 28 seconds

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767 - The semicolon is so much more interesting than you imagine

Published: April 16, 2020, 9 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 24 seconds

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766 - 'Flaunt' and 'Flout.' 'Band Together.'

Published: April 9, 2020, 11 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 34 seconds

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765 - Say No to Marshall Law. How 'Vaccine' Is Related to 'Cow.'

Published: April 2, 2020, 7:15 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 49 seconds

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764 - Skeleton Crew. Hunker Down. Uncharted. Existential.

Published: March 26, 2020, 7:15 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 39 seconds

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763 - How to Write Better Email. 'Pandemic' vs. 'Epidemic.' 'Canceled' vs. 'Cancelled.'

Published: March 19, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 40 seconds

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762 - How to Pronounce 'Celtic.' 'Whiskey' or 'Whisky'?

Published: March 12, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 58 seconds

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761 - Why It's Called 'Daylight Saving Time.' The Origin of the Word 'Woman.'

Published: March 5, 2020, 8:45 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 14 seconds

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760 - What Is Genre. 'Bangs' Versus 'Fringe.'

Published: Feb. 27, 2020, 11:15 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 25 seconds

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759 - What Does Mardi Gras Mean? "Drive to Work" Versus "Drive Home"

Published: Feb. 20, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 33 seconds

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758 - Why 'XOXO' Means 'Hugs and Kisses'

Published: Feb. 13, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 18 seconds

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757 - The days of the week are names you've known your whole life, but do you know their origin?

Published: Feb. 6, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 53 seconds

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756 - High Odds or Low Odds?

Published: Jan. 30, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 18 seconds

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755 - How to Write Anything

Published: Jan. 23, 2020, 8:45 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 13 seconds

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754 - The Tie Between Ann Landers and 'Could Care Less.'

Published: Jan. 16, 2020, 7:30 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 39 seconds

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753 - Take Heart! Here's Why You Still Have Time to Write Your First Novel

Published: Jan. 9, 2020, 4:15 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 57 seconds

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752 - Why Do Asian Languages Have So Many Different Scripts?

Published: Jan. 2, 2020, 11:30 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 54 seconds

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751 - Why Are There So Many Spellings for 'Hanukkah'? (Or Is That 'Chanukah'?)

Published: Dec. 26, 2019, 11:15 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 15 seconds

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750 - Pitch Black. Frankincense and Myrrh.

Published: Dec. 19, 2019, 8 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 35 seconds

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749 - How to Identify Your Main Point. It's Harder Than You Think!

Published: Dec. 16, 2019, 8 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 44 seconds

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748 - Your Language Affects Your Perception of Time. 'Star Wars' Languages.

Published: Dec. 12, 2019, 6 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 18 seconds

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747 - You Don't Have to Get Up on Stage for Improv to Boost Your Creativity

Published: Dec. 9, 2019, 7 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 39 seconds

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746 - How to Make Family Names Plural. How Come We Ask 'How Come?'

Published: Dec. 5, 2019, 5:15 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 12 seconds

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745 - 'More Than' Versus 'Over.' Is a Hamburger a Sandwich?

Published: Dec. 2, 2019, 4:15 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 22 seconds

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744 - Cold Turkey, Talk Turkey, and More. The Weird Origin of the Cornucopia.

Published: Nov. 28, 2019, 10:15 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 16 seconds

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743 - How to Get Your Characters Right (Especially When They Aren't Like You)

Published: Nov. 25, 2019, 3:15 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 35 seconds

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742 - Famous Quotations. Silent Letters.

Published: Nov. 21, 2019, 4 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 48 seconds

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741 - Behind the Scenes in Publishing.

Published: Nov. 18, 2019, 5:30 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 8 seconds

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740 - Do You Know When to Use Quotation Marks? Also, How to Create a House Style.

Published: Nov. 15, 2019, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 31 seconds

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739 - The Problem with Sarcasm. Filthy Lucre.

Published: Nov. 11, 2019, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 37 seconds

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738 - Can a Boy Raised by Wolves Learn to Speak Human Language? It Depends.

Published: Nov. 7, 2019, 6:30 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 1 second

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737 - Curtis Chen: Using NaNoWriMo to Kickstart Your Novel

Published: Nov. 4, 2019, 5:45 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 37 seconds

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736 - Ghastly Words for Ghosts. Quid pro Quo.

Published: Oct. 31, 2019, 7:30 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 57 seconds

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735 - Dave Itzkoff on Writing a Biography of Robin Williams

Published: Oct. 28, 2019, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 28 seconds

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734 - Ghost Words

Published: Oct. 24, 2019, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 3 seconds

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733 - Why People Hate Words Like 'Moist'

Published: Oct. 21, 2019, 6:45 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 6 seconds

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732 - How to Write a Conclusion. Rebut or Refute?

Published: Oct. 17, 2019, 5 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 40 seconds

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731 - Compound Possession. 'Friday' or 'On Friday'?

Published: Oct. 14, 2019, 4 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 37 seconds

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730 - Turning a Podcast into a Novel: 'The Bright Sessions' to 'The Infinite Noise'

Published: Oct. 10, 2019, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 39 seconds

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729 - Making Words That End in Y Plural.'Primer' Pronunciation.

Published: Oct. 7, 2019, 5:15 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 48 seconds

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728 - How English Words Came Into French After World War II

Published: Oct. 3, 2019, 4 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 28 seconds

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727 - The Quirky Australian 'Crime' Tense. 'Hopefully.'

Published: Sept. 30, 2019, 5 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 34 seconds

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726 - A Cup of Joe. Smokey and Smoky.

Published: Sept. 26, 2019, 9:30 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 30 seconds

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725 - Interviewing, Story Structure, and Writing Tools with Jonathan Small

Published: Sept. 23, 2019, 5:45 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 9 seconds

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724 - Why Esperanto Is an Amazing Language. 'Fall' or 'Autumn'?

Published: Sept. 19, 2019, 5:30 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 15 seconds

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723 - Grammar Girl #723. Tips for Fact Checking. Why We Use the Term 'Watershed Moment.'

Published: Sept. 16, 2019, 9:15 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 17 seconds

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722 - 'Math' or 'Maths'? Irregular Verbs.

Published: Sept. 12, 2019, 5:30 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 30 seconds

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721 - Verbing Nouns. 'It Is I' or 'It Is Me'?

Published: Sept. 9, 2019, 9 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 21 seconds

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720 - Getting Your Tricky Conditionals Right. Wheelhouse.

Published: Sept. 5, 2019, 6:15 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 21 seconds

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719 - Why 'Literally' Doesn't Mean 'Literally' Anymore. Video Games for Language Learning.

Published: Sept. 2, 2019, 10:30 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 53 seconds

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718 - Writing Scripts and Speeches. Ask and Aks.

Published: Aug. 29, 2019, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 52 seconds

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717 - Words that Sound Funny

Published: Aug. 26, 2019, 6 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 10 seconds

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716 - What's Up With Words That Are Spelled the Same but Sound Different?

Published: Aug. 23, 2019, midnight
Duration: 11 minutes 39 seconds

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715 - POV. Plus 'Tinderella,' 'phubbing,' and more words at the intersection of relationships and technology.

Published: Aug. 19, 2019, 9 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 11 seconds

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714 - Eponyms: Cardigan, Dunce, Quisling, and More.

Published: Aug. 16, 2019, 12:45 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 2 seconds

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713 - More Apostrophe Mayhem. Dyslexia Writing Tips

Published: Aug. 12, 2019, 10 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 45 seconds

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712 - Apostrophe Catastrophe. What (or Who) Is a Cipher?

Published: Aug. 8, 2019, 5:45 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 24 seconds

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711 - Misheard Song Lyrics and Eggcorns. The Ampersand.

Published: Aug. 5, 2019, 5 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 55 seconds

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710 - Vacay. Why Some People Call Green Peppers 'Mangoes'

Published: Aug. 1, 2019, 5 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 4 seconds

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709 - Surprise! The History of Semicolons Is Exciting.

Published: July 29, 2019, 7:15 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 36 seconds

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708 - Why Alcohol Is 'Hard.' 'Phenomena' or 'Phenomenon'?

Published: July 25, 2019, 5 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 10 seconds

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707 - How and Why the Internet Is Changing Language

Published: July 22, 2019, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 49 seconds

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706 - Sometimes It's Not a Bad Idea to Dumb Down Your Language.

Published: July 18, 2019, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 53 seconds

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705 - 'Blue Collar,' 'Bluestocking,' and 'the Blue Hair Brigade.' 'Oral' Versus 'Verbal.'

Published: July 16, 2019, midnight
Duration: 12 minutes 10 seconds

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704 - Present Tense When Writing About Fiction. The Poop Emoji and Eggcorns.

Published: July 11, 2019, 5 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 25 seconds

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703 - Why There Are 9 Different Ways to Pronounce the Letter T

Published: July 8, 2019, 9:30 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 19 seconds

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702 - All of a Sudden or All of the Sudden? Baited or Bated Breath?

Published: July 4, 2019, 5 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 45 seconds

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701 - Biweekly or Semiweekly? Foward' and Forward.

Published: July 1, 2019, 8:45 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 57 seconds

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700 - When to Capitalize 'Google.' Why Zero is 'Love' in Tennis.

Published: June 27, 2019, 7:15 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 47 seconds

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699 - When to Capitalize Computer Terms. StetWalk

Published: June 24, 2019, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 31 seconds

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698 - 'Subpoena.' When To Capitalize 'The' in Titles.

Published: June 20, 2019, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 37 seconds

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697 - What Anyone Can Learn From the College Essay Process

Published: June 17, 2019, 9:30 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 12 seconds

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696 - Hyphens in Ages. The Emphatic 'This.'

Published: June 13, 2019, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 1 second

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695 - 'Armageddon' or 'Apocalypse'? Numbers in Dialogue.

Published: June 10, 2019, 6:45 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 44 seconds

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694 - Country Names and The: The Ukraine or Ukraine. Theater Idioms.

Published: June 6, 2019, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 29 seconds

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693 - What's Wrong with Saying Something Is 'Very Unique'?

Published: June 4, 2019, 12:45 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 9 seconds

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692 - Godzilla, Cryptids, and Dilemma Comments.

Published: May 30, 2019, 6:45 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 13 seconds

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691 - BONUS: Introducing Science Rules! with Bill Nye

Published: May 27, 2019, 5:45 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 53 seconds

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690 - The Spelling Bee Kids

Published: May 23, 2019, 5 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 58 seconds

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689 - More or most? Majority or plurality? The many (how many?) ways to describe amounts.

Published: May 20, 2019, 11 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 59 seconds

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688 - Dangling Participles

Published: May 16, 2019, 6:30 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 5 seconds

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687 - What It's Like to Be a Book Editor and Translator

Published: May 13, 2019, 7:15 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 12 seconds

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686 - The 'Dilemma' Dilemma. 'Big Bang Theory" Words and Language.

Published: May 9, 2019, 5:30 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 25 seconds

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685 - How to Find Work as a Freelance Writer. Adventure.

Published: May 6, 2019, 5:45 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 11 seconds

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684 - Unquote or End Quote? Cinco de Mayo. Horse Idioms.

Published: May 2, 2019, 3:15 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 56 seconds

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683 - So and So That: What Type of Conjunction Are They?

Published: April 29, 2019, 9:15 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 28 seconds

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682 - Do You Drop Your T's? 'Sneaked' and 'Snuck.'

Published: April 25, 2019, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 40 seconds

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681 - 'The Dictionary of Difficult Words,' an Interview with Jane Solomon

Published: April 22, 2019, 6:15 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 57 seconds

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680 - Wakandan, Groot, and Other Languages of the Marvel Universe. Easter and Passover.

Published: April 18, 2019, 4:15 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 53 seconds

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679 - Brussels sprouts? Scotch eggs? Swedish meatballs? Which food names can you trust?

Published: April 15, 2019, 5:30 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 41 seconds

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678 - Moolah, Clams, and Scratch. God, Godsend, and Godfather.

Published: April 11, 2019, 5 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 14 seconds

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676 - The Language of 'Game of Thrones'

Published: April 4, 2019, 5 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 41 seconds

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675 - Why Verbs Like 'Witness' Are Weird

Published: April 1, 2019, 6:45 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 59 seconds

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674 - How You Can Benefit Year-Round from NaNoWriMo

Published: March 28, 2019, 5 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 45 seconds

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673 - Schwa-ify This! Scrabble Stories

Published: March 25, 2019, 9:45 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 50 seconds

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672 - How a Semicolon Brought Two Writers Together

Published: March 21, 2019, 5 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 57 seconds

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671 - Why We Have Both 'Color' and 'Colour'

Published: March 18, 2019, 5:15 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 46 seconds

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670 - Equinox. Is Irish the Same as Gaelic?

Published: March 14, 2019, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 8 seconds

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669 - 'Red Tape,' 'Red Herring,' 'Paint the Town Red,' and More 'Red' Idioms.

Published: March 11, 2019, 5:45 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 5 seconds

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668 - What's Wrong with 'These Ones'? Faith and Begorrah, We Have Irish Phrases for St. Patrick's Day!

Published: March 7, 2019, 6 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 14 seconds

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667 - Why ducks say "quack-quack" in English but "ga-ga" in Japanese.

Published: March 4, 2019, 5 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 27 seconds

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666 - Double Negatives.

Published: Feb. 28, 2019, 6 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 9 seconds

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665 - Language News Chat

Published: Feb. 25, 2019, 5:45 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 32 seconds

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664 - Benjamin Dreyer and His Unusual Pet Peeves

Published: Feb. 21, 2019, 9:30 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 52 seconds

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663 - D-Day. Why I Want a Salad-Salad.

Published: Feb. 18, 2019, 7:15 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 11 seconds

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662 - Never Misspell 'Bureaucracy' Again.

Published: Feb. 14, 2019, 5 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 48 seconds

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662 - 'Racket' or 'Racquet'? Never Misspell 'Bureaucracy' Again.

Published: Feb. 14, 2019, 5 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 8 seconds

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661 - How Paula Brackston picks her characters names and uses language to set a tone.

Published: Feb. 11, 2019, 3 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 37 seconds

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660 - 'Irregardless' or 'Regardless'? Crime Words.

Published: Feb. 7, 2019, 6 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 18 seconds

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659 - Normans, Ralls, and Voicemail

Published: Feb. 4, 2019, 9 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 48 seconds

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658 - 'Wage,' 'Wager,' and 'Wed'

Published: Jan. 31, 2019, 5:30 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 58 seconds

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657 - 'Tip of the Hat" or 'Tip Your Hand'? 'Yeah No.'

Published: Jan. 24, 2019, 4 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 1 second

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656 - Relapse or Recur? 'Kneeled' or 'Knelt.' Methinks.

Published: Jan. 17, 2019, 6:45 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 13 seconds

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655 - Myriad or Myriad Of? What Is a Run-On Sentence?

Published: Jan. 10, 2019, 5:15 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 11 seconds

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654 - 'Stint' or 'Stent'? How to Pronounce 'Coyote.'

Published: Jan. 3, 2019, 6:30 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 23 seconds

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653 - How to Use an Asterisk. Journaling.

Published: Dec. 27, 2018, 4:15 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 42 seconds

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652 - Purposely' or 'Purposefully'? Yule.

Published: Dec. 20, 2018, 5:15 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 13 seconds

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651 - 'Capitulate' or 'Recapitulate'? Colons.

Published: Dec. 13, 2018, 5:45 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 42 seconds

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650 - 'Wreaked' or 'Wrought'? 'Crescendo.' Could We Understand Aliens?

Published: Dec. 6, 2018, 7 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 10 seconds

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649 - 'Ado' or 'Adieu'? Pronouns and Antecedents

Published: Nov. 29, 2018, 9 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 11 seconds

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648 - Does Your Language Influence How You Think?

Published: Nov. 22, 2018, 2:15 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 38 seconds

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647 - Pronoun Order. Flier or Flyer. The Plural of Mouse.

Published: Nov. 15, 2018, 5 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes

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646 - 'Blond' or 'Blonde'? How 'Trolloping' Became a Word.

Published: Nov. 8, 2018, 5 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 16 seconds

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645 - Interview with New York Times bestselling author Courtney Summers

Published: Nov. 1, 2018, 5 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 6 seconds

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644 - 'Sit' or 'Set'? Monster Names.

Published: Oct. 25, 2018, 5 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 50 seconds

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643 - In the Limelight. A or An?

Published: Oct. 18, 2018, 5 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 9 seconds

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642 - 'Regard' Versus 'Regards.' Languages Without Numbers.

Published: Oct. 11, 2018, 5 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 9 seconds

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641 - 'Myself.' Get the Skinny.

Published: Oct. 4, 2018, 5 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes

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640 - Can a Screw Screw Itself into a Board? (Middle Voice)

Published: Sept. 27, 2018, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 33 seconds

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639 - Great Paragraphs. Falling off the Turnip Truck.

Published: Sept. 20, 2018, 7 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 22 seconds

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638 - 'None.' How Pirates Talked.

Published: Sept. 13, 2018, 5 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 3 seconds

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637 - MacGyver. Semicolons.

Published: Sept. 6, 2018, 5 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 28 seconds

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636 - 'To Boot.' Duck Tape. 'Can' and 'May.' Pronouns.

Published: Aug. 30, 2018, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 39 seconds

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635 - 'Quick and Dirty.' 'Momentarily.' Short Subjects.

Published: Aug. 24, 2018, midnight
Duration: 11 minutes 47 seconds

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634 - 'Rack' or 'Wrack'? How to Eliminate Adverbs.

Published: Aug. 16, 2018, 5 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 29 seconds

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BONUS: Words for Color

Published: Aug. 14, 2018, 1:30 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 17 seconds

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633 - Is That Comment Facetious, Sarcastic, or Sardonic? Cleft Sentences.

Published: Aug. 9, 2018, 5 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 30 seconds

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632 - 'Ask' as a Noun. Ships as 'She.'

Published: Aug. 2, 2018, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 46 seconds

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631 - Anniversaries. Conversate.

Published: July 26, 2018, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 47 seconds

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630 - Who Wrote the ABC Song? Shark Idioms!

Published: July 19, 2018, 5 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 55 seconds

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629 - 'Gourmet' or 'Gourmand'? Why July 14 Is Called Bastille Day.

Published: July 12, 2018, 3 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 48 seconds

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628 - Why 'Bag' and 'Beg' Sound the same to some people? Does 'Texas' Mean 'Crazy'?

Published: July 5, 2018, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 16 seconds

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627 - How to Write a Great Cover Letter. 'Kinda' and 'Wanna': Real Words or Not?

Published: June 28, 2018, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 40 seconds

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626 - Aggravate Versus Irritate What Is a Functional Shift?

Published: June 21, 2018, 5 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 55 seconds

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625 - Dinner or Supper? How to Write a Thank-You Note

Published: June 14, 2018, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 54 seconds

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624 - Trooper and Trouper. Why Is It Called a Spelling Bee?

Published: June 7, 2018, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 5 seconds

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623 - 'Calvary' or 'Cavalry'? Spelling Bee Interview.

Published: May 31, 2018, 11:15 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 34 seconds

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622 - Is a Troop One Person or a Group? Repetition

Published: May 24, 2018, 4 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 30 seconds

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621 - Council or Counsel? Direct and Indirect Quotations. Oxymorons.

Published: May 17, 2018, 5 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 35 seconds

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620 - When to Capitalize 'Mom.' In the Doldrums.

Published: May 10, 2018, 5 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 53 seconds

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619 - Co-worker. Barefaced and Baldfaced Lies. Mixed Metaphors.

Published: May 3, 2018, 5 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 17 seconds

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618 - Jazz and Thunder. Say Your Piece (or Peace)?

Published: April 26, 2018, 5 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 39 seconds

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617 - 'Lay' and 'Lie.' 'Grill' and 'Grille.' 'Warsh.'

Published: April 19, 2018, 10 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 20 seconds

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616 - The Prodigal Tongue. Odoriferous. Battle Royale.

Published: April 12, 2018, 11:15 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 17 seconds

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615 - Humor with Adverbs. Noisome. Receipts. Case Quarters.

Published: April 5, 2018, 8:30 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 34 seconds

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614 - Illeism. Named For or After? Misinformation and Disinformation.

Published: March 29, 2018, 11 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 27 seconds

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613 - Dictionary.com Starts Defining Emoji (an interview with Jane Solomon)

Published: March 22, 2018, 10:30 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 47 seconds

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612 - The Pin/Pen Merger. American. 'Half-Staff' or 'Half-Mast'?

Published: March 16, 2018, 1 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 40 seconds

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611 - Pudding. "There Are" Sentences. Winning Limerick

Published: March 8, 2018, 11:45 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 50 seconds

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610 - Top 10 Grammar Myths. How 13 Dog Breeds Got Their Names.

Published: March 2, 2018, 1 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 27 seconds

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609 - Pull Idioms. Surprising Food Names. Dillydally.

Published: Feb. 22, 2018, 10 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 8 seconds

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608 - Dilly Dilly. How Many Prepositions Can You Put in a Row?

Published: Feb. 15, 2018, 10 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 47 seconds

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607 - Brainstorming. Call Out Sick? Synesis.

Published: Feb. 8, 2018, 10 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 53 seconds

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606 - Levidromes, Tom Swifty Jokes, and new OED Words.

Published: Feb. 1, 2018, 11 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 44 seconds

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605 - A Homophone Error at the SAG Awards. Lectern or Podium? Capitalizing Award Names

Published: Jan. 25, 2018, 11:30 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 47 seconds

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BONUS: Introducing Launch

Published: Jan. 22, 2018, 3 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 38 seconds

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604 - Origin of 'Gerrymandering.' Is 'Data' Singular or Plural?

Published: Jan. 18, 2018, 11 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 4 seconds

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603 - Words of the Year, Why You Shouldn't Use 'Eskimo,' 'Canon' or 'Cannon'?

Published: Jan. 11, 2018, 11 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 20 seconds

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602 - I'm Chuffed.

Published: Jan. 4, 2018, 10 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 15 seconds

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601 - 'Based In' or 'Based Out Of.' Omitting 'That'

Published: Dec. 28, 2017, 9 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 22 seconds

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600 - How to Pronounce 'Caramel.' Sports Idioms

Published: Dec. 21, 2017, 9 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 49 seconds

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599 - Delicious English Words (Chocolate, Guacamole) with Aztec Roots

Published: Dec. 14, 2017, 11 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 4 seconds

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598 - Gifting and Regifting. Take a Decision.

Published: Dec. 8, 2017, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 5 seconds

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597 - Eskimo Words for Snow. Write a Book!

Published: Nov. 30, 2017, 11 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 1 second

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596 - Why Businesses Are Called Houses. Why We Call It "Black Friday."

Published: Nov. 23, 2017, 9 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 57 seconds

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595 - 'Side' Words. What Is a Bailiwick?

Published: Nov. 16, 2017, 9 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 4 seconds

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BONUS: Introducing "When to Jump"

Published: Nov. 10, 2017, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 4 seconds

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594 - The Plural of 'Batman.' Why Smart People Struggle with Shakespeare Too.

Published: Nov. 9, 2017, 11 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 8 seconds

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593 - The Origin of English: Proto-Indo-European.

Published: Nov. 2, 2017, 11 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 55 seconds

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592 - "Sofa" or "Couch"? "Skeleton" Idioms.

Published: Oct. 26, 2017, 11:30 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 35 seconds

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591 - 'Cannot' or 'Can Not'? 'Dead' Idioms.

Published: Oct. 19, 2017, 11 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes

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590 - How to Write an Apology

Published: Oct. 12, 2017, 11:30 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 27 seconds

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589 - The "Ruth's Chris" Apostrophe. Thingamajigs.

Published: Oct. 5, 2017, 11 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 44 seconds

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588 - Why People Mimic Accents. Why People "Have Your Six."

Published: Sept. 28, 2017, 11 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 50 seconds

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587 - More British & American Differences. Quotation Marks with Periods and Commas

Published: Sept. 21, 2017, 11:30 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 43 seconds

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586 - UK and US English. 'Bad' or 'Badly'?

Published: Sept. 15, 2017, 12:45 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 51 seconds

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585 GG. Rainy Idioms. "Because," "Due To," "Since," and "As"

Published: Sept. 7, 2017, 11:45 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 38 seconds

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584 GG. Pipe Dream. Comma Before a Quotation.

Published: Sept. 1, 2017, 1 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 48 seconds

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583 GG Important or Importantly? Time Traveler Words

Published: Aug. 25, 2017, 1:30 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 13 seconds

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582 GG. How to Use Quotations. Stop Calling Yourself a Grammar Nazi

Published: Aug. 17, 2017, 11 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 47 seconds

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581 GG. Riffle and Rifle. Worcestershire Sauce.

Published: Aug. 10, 2017, 11 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 4 seconds

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580 GG. Introductory Paragraphs. One of The...

Published: Aug. 3, 2017, 11 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 6 seconds

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579 GG Language Games. Jerry-Built. And Female Juniors

Published: July 27, 2017, 11:30 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 24 seconds

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578 GG Words from Obsolete Technology

Published: July 20, 2017, 11 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 11 seconds

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577 GG The Trump Jr. Punctuation Kerfuffle. Generation Names.

Published: July 13, 2017, 11:30 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 33 seconds

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576 GG Critique or Criticize? Games Like Pig Latin

Published: July 6, 2017, 11 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 11 seconds

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575 GG Gestures. Elbow Grease. Capitalizing Directions.

Published: June 29, 2017, 11 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 6 seconds

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574 GG Commas with Transition Words. Double Whammy.

Published: June 22, 2017, 11 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 57 seconds

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573 GG Until, Till, and 'Til. Dad Jokes.

Published: June 15, 2017, 9:30 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 22 seconds

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572 GG Themself. Comma Splices.

Published: June 8, 2017, 9 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 57 seconds

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571 GG Lego or Legos? Why English Spelling Reform Is Doomed.

Published: June 1, 2017, 10:30 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 19 seconds

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570 GG Burned or Burnt? Why English Spelling Is a Mess.

Published: May 26, 2017, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 16 seconds

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569 GG. Explain vs. Explanation. How to Outline.

Published: May 18, 2017, 10 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 50 seconds

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568 GG. In or Among. Weird Words.

Published: May 12, 2017, 12:30 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 19 seconds

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567 Is Pig Latin a Real Language?

Published: May 4, 2017, 10 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 23 seconds

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566 GG. Off Your Feed. Animal Language.

Published: April 27, 2017, 11 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 56 seconds

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565 GG. Apple, Podcasts, and Prepositions. Forensic Linguistics.

Published: April 20, 2017, 8 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 26 seconds

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565 GG. Solving Crimes with Language. Apple, Podcasts, and Prepositions.

Published: April 20, 2017, 8 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 48 seconds

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564 GG. Preposition or Adverb?

Published: April 13, 2017, 8 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 19 seconds

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563 GG Singular 'They'

Published: April 7, 2017, 1 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 30 seconds

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562 GG AP Style and Chicago Manual of Style Updates

Published: March 31, 2017, 1 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 36 seconds

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561 GG $10 Million Comma. Ambiguous Sentences. Tribute to Bill Walsh

Published: March 23, 2017, 8 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 29 seconds

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560 GG Devil's Advocate. 3 Tips for Creating Sentences with Punch

Published: March 16, 2017, 10:15 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 9 seconds

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559 GG. Abbreviations. And Then the Murders Began. Runcible. Haiku.

Published: March 10, 2017, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 31 seconds

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558 GG How to Write Good Survey Questions

Published: March 3, 2017, 1:15 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 45 seconds

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557 GG Double Dactyl Poetry

Published: Feb. 23, 2017, 9 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 28 seconds

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556 GG Tumult. Bull in a China Shop. Always, Never, Usually, Often, Most, and More

Published: Feb. 16, 2017, 9 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 5 seconds

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555 GG. Toe/Tow the Line. Pled or Pleaded. Animal Idioms.

Published: Feb. 9, 2017, 9 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 28 seconds

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554 GG 'Reticent' or 'Reluctant.' Which' or 'That.'

Published: Feb. 2, 2017, 8 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 39 seconds

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553 GG Not Only, But Also. Leave in the Lurch. Month Names.

Published: Jan. 27, 2017, 3:15 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 40 seconds

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551 Capital vs Capitol. Citing Podcasts and Websites

Published: Jan. 19, 2017, 9 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 54 seconds

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551 GG. Words of the Year. Writing Tips.

Published: Jan. 12, 2017, 8 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 54 seconds

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550 GG Enormity or Enormousness? Badminton

Published: Jan. 5, 2017, 9 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 39 seconds

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549 GG Hone/Home In. Apostrophes.

Published: Dec. 29, 2016, 9:15 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 25 seconds

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548 GG. What Makes Good Stories.

Published: Dec. 22, 2016, 8 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 45 seconds

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547 GG 'A While' or 'Awhile'? Writing Dialogue

Published: Dec. 15, 2016, 9 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 37 seconds

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546 GG Anxious/Eager. If Not.

Published: Dec. 8, 2016, 9:30 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 34 seconds

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545 GG Read the Riot Act. The Changing English Language.

Published: Dec. 1, 2016, 9 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 12 seconds

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544 GG. Pilgrim Names. Pronouncing Foreign Words

Published: Nov. 24, 2016, 9 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 23 seconds

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543 GG. By the Wayside. How to Pronounce 'Biopic'

Published: Nov. 17, 2016, 8 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 34 seconds

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542 GG. 'Aloud' or "Out Loud'? Strong Voice

Published: Nov. 11, 2016, midnight
Duration: 7 minutes 51 seconds

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541 GG Before or Prior To? Foreign Language Syndrome

Published: Nov. 3, 2016, 9 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 7 seconds

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540 GG. Cemetery or Graveyard? Peer Editing. To Calendar.

Published: Oct. 27, 2016, 8 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 14 seconds

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539 GG Capitalizing Job Titles. I.e. Versus E.g. Sentence Diagramming

Published: Oct. 20, 2016, 10 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 9 seconds

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538 Alumni. Words from Bookmaking. Beyond the Pale

Published: Oct. 14, 2016, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 52 seconds

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537 GG "Further" Versus "Farther." Horse's Mouth

Published: Oct. 7, 2016, midnight
Duration: 11 minutes 1 second

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536 GG Hit the Bestseller List: How to Style Your Words Like a Bestselling Author

Published: Sept. 29, 2016, 11:45 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 14 seconds

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535 GG Anyways or Anyway? Topic Sentences

Published: Sept. 22, 2016, 10:30 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 53 seconds

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534 GG. Bridget Jones. Pay Dirt. Dashes.

Published: Sept. 15, 2016, 11 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 58 seconds

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533 GG. Etc. Short Shrift. Prepositions

Published: Sept. 8, 2016, 11:45 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 38 seconds

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532 GG Loose or Lose. You Wazzock.

Published: Sept. 1, 2016, 9:30 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 33 seconds

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531 GG Writing Dual POVs. Space Operas and Soap Operas.

Published: Aug. 25, 2016, 10:15 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 57 seconds

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530 GG Whom. Preorder. Badger, Weasel, Ferret.

Published: Aug. 18, 2016, 10 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 34 seconds

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529 GG Latin Words. Batten Down the Hatches

Published: Aug. 11, 2016, 11:30 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 5 seconds

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528 GG Adjectives. Logical Fallacies

Published: Aug. 4, 2016, 10:15 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 11 seconds

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527 GG 'Lit' or 'Lighted.' Why Some Words Become Homophones

Published: July 29, 2016, 2:15 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 43 seconds

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526 GG Types of Third Person Point of View. Flammable and Inflammable

Published: July 22, 2016, midnight
Duration: 8 minutes 50 seconds

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525 GG Food Idioms. 'Affective' or 'Effective'

Published: July 15, 2016, midnight
Duration: 12 minutes 46 seconds

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524 - Affect Versus Effect. How to Pronounce The

Published: July 7, 2016, 10 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 59 seconds

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524 GG. Affect Versus Effect. How to Pronounce The

Published: July 7, 2016, 10 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 30 seconds

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523 GG Sightseeing. On Accident Versus by Accident

Published: June 30, 2016, 9:30 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 14 seconds

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522 GG Hearty or Hardy? How English Became English. Jury-Rigged.

Published: June 23, 2016, 10:30 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 43 seconds

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521 GG Is Funnest a Word? How to Pronounce Adirondack.

Published: June 16, 2016, 10 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 26 seconds

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520 GG Band Names. Woman or Female?

Published: June 10, 2016, 1 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 26 seconds

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519 GG RBIs. Principal and Principle. Run of the Mill

Published: June 2, 2016, 9 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 35 seconds

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518 GG Are You Interurban? Vonnegut's Famous Semicolon Quotation Was Taken Out of Context. Off the Cuff.

Published: May 26, 2016, 9 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 29 seconds

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517 GG Why Do We Call It Commencement? When to Delete "It"

Published: May 19, 2016, 9:30 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 8 seconds

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516 GG Celsius Versus Centigrade. 'Between' Versus 'Among'

Published: May 12, 2016, 11:30 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 33 seconds

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515 GG Home vs. Away? How to Make Product Names Plural

Published: May 5, 2016, 11:45 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 13 seconds

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514 GG Brouhaha. New Words. One Fell Swoop.

Published: April 29, 2016, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 3 seconds

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513 GG North or Northbound. Subjunctive Verbs.

Published: April 21, 2016, 10:30 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 34 seconds

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512 GG Titled or Entitled? AP Style Updates. Into Thin Air.

Published: April 14, 2016, 11 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 33 seconds

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511 GG Pronouncing Pulitzer. Navajo Codes in WWII

Published: April 7, 2016, 11 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 5 seconds

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510 GG How Aphasia Causes Difficulty Speaking

Published: March 31, 2016, 10 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 57 seconds

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509 GG Charlie Chaplin Grammar. S-Backing.

Published: March 24, 2016, 9:30 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 28 seconds

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508 GG. Haiku Winners. Great Story Ideas

Published: March 17, 2016, 9 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 37 seconds

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507 Patty or Paddy? Needs Washed

Published: March 10, 2016, 9:30 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 12 seconds

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506 GG Subordinate Clause Examples

Published: March 4, 2016, 1 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 52 seconds

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505 GG Maudlin. Vocabulary Words

Published: Feb. 25, 2016, 9:30 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 55 seconds

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504 GG Shined or Shone? Idioms About Tea

Published: Feb. 18, 2016, 10 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 27 seconds

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503 GG What Is a Canard?

Published: Feb. 11, 2016, 10 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 4 seconds

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502 GG. Straw Man. Wicked.

Published: Feb. 4, 2016, 10 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 38 seconds

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501 GG Word Families. Caucus

Published: Jan. 28, 2016, 9:30 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 15 seconds

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500 GG Redundancy. Letters of Recommendation.

Published: Jan. 21, 2016, 9:30 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 47 seconds

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499 GG Current or Currant? Singular They

Published: Jan. 14, 2016, 9:30 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 8 seconds

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498 GG A Joke About a Mongoose. Writing Dates.

Published: Jan. 7, 2016, 9:30 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 34 seconds

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497 GG Should You Capitalize 'the Force' from Star Wars?

Published: Dec. 31, 2015, 9:30 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 28 seconds

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496 GG Plural of Hippopotamus

Published: Dec. 24, 2015, 9:30 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 23 seconds

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495 GG Pair. Misusing So and Very. Even Keel

Published: Dec. 17, 2015, 9:30 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 49 seconds

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494 GG Pair. Forensic Linguistics. In Cold Blood

Published: Dec. 10, 2015, 9:30 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 33 seconds

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493 GG Hoofs or Hooves? Color Phrases

Published: Dec. 3, 2015, 9:30 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 44 seconds

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492. GG. Blue. Kith and Kin

Published: Nov. 27, 2015, 10:15 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 19 seconds

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491 GG Social Media. Internal Dialogue.

Published: Nov. 19, 2015, 9:30 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 55 seconds

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490 GG Formatting URLs in Text

Published: Nov. 12, 2015, 9:30 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 41 seconds

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489 GG Dialogue Tags. Writing Fight Scenes. NaNoWriMo

Published: Nov. 5, 2015, 9:30 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 45 seconds

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488 GG Hallowe'en. Apostrophes. The Garden Path

Published: Oct. 29, 2015, 9:30 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 8 seconds

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487 GG Wolf or Woof. Interrobang. Riding Roughshod

Published: Oct. 22, 2015, 9:30 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 15 seconds

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486 - Suffragette. Ginormous

Published: Oct. 15, 2015, 9:30 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 42 seconds

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485 GG Firstly. Exclamation Points. Leeway.

Published: Oct. 8, 2015, 9:30 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 55 seconds

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484 GG Mantel or Mantle? Bulleted Lists

Published: Oct. 1, 2015, 9:30 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 35 seconds

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483 GG Sort, Kind, or Type? Homophones, Homographs, and Homonyms

Published: Sept. 24, 2015, 9:30 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 13 seconds

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482 GG Amused or Bemused. Being Bilingual. Positive Anymore.

Published: Sept. 17, 2015, 9:30 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 14 seconds

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481 GG And/Or. That Should Be a Word.

Published: Sept. 10, 2015, 9:30 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 44 seconds

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480 GG Matriculate. Diminutives. Crocodile or Alligator?

Published: Sept. 3, 2015, 9:30 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 38 seconds

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479 GG Scrabble in Different Parts of the World

Published: Aug. 28, 2015, 12:30 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 32 seconds

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478 GG Why English Has Silent Letters

Published: Aug. 20, 2015, 8:15 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 14 seconds

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477 GG Scrabble Extravaganza

Published: Aug. 13, 2015, 9:30 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 22 seconds

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476 GG Zero Percent, Prefixes and Suffixes, Malapropisms

Published: Aug. 6, 2015, 9:30 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 35 seconds

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281 How Do Words Get in the Dictionary?

Published: July 31, 2015, 8 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 4 seconds

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475 GG How a Comma Can Get You out of a Parking Ticket

Published: July 23, 2015, 9:30 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 11 seconds

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474 GG Flesh Out. Last Names. Hat Trick.

Published: July 16, 2015, 9:30 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 13 seconds

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473 GG How Understanding Toy Story Can Help You Get into College

Published: July 9, 2015, 6:15 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 46 seconds

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472 GG Citizen or Resident? Let's and Let Us. Newfangled.

Published: June 23, 2015, 6:15 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 49 seconds

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471 GG Size versus Sized. When Is It OK to Be Redundant? Mind Your Ps and Qs.

Published: June 18, 2015, 2 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 9 seconds

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470 GG Prepositions in Shakespeare

Published: June 12, 2015, 4:30 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 26 seconds

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469 GG Kudos. Crossword Puzzles. Squad Goals. June 4, 2015.

Published: June 4, 2015, 9 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 12 seconds

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468 GG Congratulations. Food Names That Come From Countries...or Not. Tall Poppy Syndrome.

Published: May 28, 2015, 9 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 21 seconds

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467 GG Deep Seeded or Deep Seated?, Lewis Carroll: He Loved to Play with Language, Japanese Words in English

Published: May 21, 2015, 5 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 13 seconds

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466 GG Healthy Versus Healthful. The Best SAT Essay Ever. Fast and Loose

Published: May 14, 2015, 9 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 33 seconds

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465 GG Two Spaces After a Period?

Published: May 7, 2015, 8 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 17 seconds

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464 GG Weird Conditionals

Published: April 30, 2015, 9 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 44 seconds

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463 GG Most or Almost. Parallel Structure. Follow Suit

Published: April 23, 2015, 9 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 14 seconds

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462 GG Everyday. Ain't. Eponyms

Published: April 16, 2015, 9 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 3 seconds

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461 GG Between You and Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen

Published: April 9, 2015, 9 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 20 seconds

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105 Yoda Grammar (Reissue)

Published: April 2, 2015, 6 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes

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460 GG Global English: Prepone, Do the Needful, and More

Published: March 26, 2015, 9 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 28 seconds

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459 GG Subject-Verb Agreement

Published: March 19, 2015, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 41 seconds

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458 GG Can You Process These Tricky, but Grammatical, Sentences?

Published: March 13, 2015, 4:15 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 17 seconds

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457 GG If Versus Whether

Published: March 5, 2015, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 40 seconds

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456 GG Is Starting a Sentence With So Condescending?

Published: Feb. 26, 2015, 10 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 20 seconds

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Announcement

Published: Feb. 20, 2015, 1:15 a.m.
Duration: 33 seconds

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455 GG Why Do We Drive on Parkways and Park on Driveways?

Published: Feb. 12, 2015, 10 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 12 seconds

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454 GG Splitting Infinitives

Published: Feb. 5, 2015, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 31 seconds

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453 GG Less Versus Fewer

Published: Jan. 29, 2015, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 51 seconds

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452 GG Why People Misuse Prepositions

Published: Jan. 22, 2015, 10 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 25 seconds

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451 GG Impossible Participals

Published: Jan. 15, 2015, 10 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 57 seconds

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450 GG Is Sign Language Universal?

Published: Jan. 8, 2015, 10 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 26 seconds

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449 GG Double Possessives

Published: Jan. 1, 2015, 10 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 31 seconds

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448 GG How Our Brains Process Hyperbole

Published: Dec. 25, 2014, 10 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 30 seconds

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447 GG Weird Ideas About Paragraph Length

Published: Dec. 18, 2014, 10 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 43 seconds

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446 GG Why Don't People Say "Thou" Anymore

Published: Dec. 11, 2014, 11 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 26 seconds

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445 GG Why Do People Say "Like" All the Time?

Published: Dec. 4, 2014, 10 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 52 seconds

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444 GG Between You and Me

Published: Nov. 27, 2014, 10 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 19 seconds

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443 GG Done Versus Finished

Published: Nov. 20, 2014, 10 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 15 seconds

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442 GG Make Me a Sandwich

Published: Nov. 13, 2014, 10 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 18 seconds

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441 GG Mic or Mike? Simple or Simplistic? Uppercase and Lowercase

Published: Nov. 6, 2014, 10 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 32 seconds

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440 GG How to Plan a Novel

Published: Oct. 30, 2014, 9 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 51 seconds

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439 GG Texting, Coffins, and Death

Published: Oct. 23, 2014, 9 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 18 seconds

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438 GG Why Do People Say Punctuation Out Loud?

Published: Oct. 16, 2014, 9 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 40 seconds

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437 GG Whats the difference between England, Great Britain, and the UK?

Published: Oct. 9, 2014, 9 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 32 seconds

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436 GG Why People Have Always Been Confused About Apostrophes

Published: Oct. 2, 2014, 9 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 5 seconds

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435 GG We Might Could Harvest the Corn

Published: Sept. 25, 2014, 9 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 56 seconds

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434 GG Ya Shank: The Made-Up Swear Words of 'The Maze Runner'

Published: Sept. 18, 2014, 9 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 1 second

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433 GG Why People Mix Up the Pronouns "Me" and "I"

Published: Sept. 11, 2014, 9 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 38 seconds

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432 GG When to Use a Comma Before 'Because'

Published: Sept. 4, 2014, 9 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 19 seconds

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431 GG Words That Aren't Words

Published: Aug. 28, 2014, 9 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 16 seconds

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430 GG The Plural of Money. This Is Your Brain on Writing. Egregious

Published: Aug. 21, 2014, 9 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 11 seconds

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429 GG How to Use the Conjunction Nor

Published: Aug. 14, 2014, 9 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 15 seconds

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428 GG Crash Blossoms

Published: Aug. 7, 2014, 9 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 12 seconds

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427 GG 7 French Food-Related Words That Became English

Published: July 31, 2014, 9 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 45 seconds

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426 GG A Language Lover's Trip to England

Published: July 24, 2014, 9:15 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 17 seconds

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425 GG Why Weird Al's Word Crimes Video Made Me Want to Quit

Published: July 17, 2014, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 39 seconds

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424GG There's Something Weird About "For," "Yet," and "So"

Published: July 10, 2014, 9 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 30 seconds

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423 GG Is the Semicolon in TL;DR Ironic?

Published: July 3, 2014, 4 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 9 seconds

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422GG Manipulating Words to Make Things Funny

Published: June 26, 2014, 9 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 58 seconds

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421 - Part II: Why Do People Say 'A-Whole-Nother'?

Published: June 19, 2014, 9 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 15 seconds

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420 - Why 'A-Whole-Nother' Isnt Like 'Ala-Frickin-Bama' and 'Hizzouse'

Published: June 12, 2014, 9 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 23 seconds

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419 - Using Stick Figures to Understand First, Second, and Third Person

Published: June 5, 2014, 9 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 24 seconds

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418GG Starting a Sentence with a Conjunction: Right or Wrong?

Published: May 29, 2014, 9 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 10 seconds

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417 - An Unparalleled Letdown

Published: May 22, 2014, 9 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 31 seconds

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416GG How to Kick Your Annoying Preposition Habit

Published: May 15, 2014, 9 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 45 seconds

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415 - Commas Are Like People on the Subway

Published: May 8, 2014, 9 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 46 seconds

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414 - Luisa Zissman's Missing Apostrophe

Published: May 1, 2014, 10 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 46 seconds

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413 - Words Invented by Shakespeare

Published: April 24, 2014, 11:45 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 12 seconds

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412 - Can I Help Who's Next?

Published: April 18, 2014, 1 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 22 seconds

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411 - Addictive Versus Addicting

Published: April 10, 2014, 3 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 39 seconds

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410GG Just Because

Published: March 30, 2014, 8:45 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 44 seconds

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408 - Why We Don't End Sentences With "You're"

Published: March 21, 2014, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 32 seconds

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407GG Why Canadians Don't Really Say "Aboot"

Published: March 13, 2014, 11:45 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 57 seconds

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406GG Begging the Question

Published: March 7, 2014, 1 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 40 seconds

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405 - Is Cash Money a Regional Expression?

Published: Feb. 28, 2014, 3 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 57 seconds

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404 - Why "Substitute" Is Weird

Published: Feb. 27, 2014, 11:15 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 11 seconds

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403 - Preventative and Orientate

Published: Feb. 22, 2014, 11:15 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 23 seconds

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402 - Little Bunny Foo Foo

Published: Feb. 21, 2014, 5:15 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 43 seconds

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401 - How Clipping Creates New Words

Published: Feb. 14, 2014, 2:15 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes

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400 - How Reading Tickles Your Neurons

Published: Feb. 9, 2014, 5:45 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 34 seconds

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399 - Your Brain on Fiction

Published: Feb. 7, 2014, 4:30 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 44 seconds

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071 Units Of Measure

Published: Jan. 30, 2014, 4 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 34 seconds

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398GG Why Some Band Names Take "The" and Some Don't

Published: Jan. 24, 2014, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 1 second

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397 - Secrets of Bestselling Novels

Published: Jan. 16, 2014, 10 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 16 seconds

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396 GG Tenterhooks or Tenderhooks?

Published: Jan. 10, 2014, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 5 seconds

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192 Do I Hate Your Singing or You Singing?

Published: Jan. 2, 2014, 6 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 4 seconds

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395 GG How to Use Quotation Marks

Published: Dec. 24, 2013, 11:15 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 51 seconds

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394GG Hashtag Rap

Published: Dec. 17, 2013, 7:15 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 30 seconds

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393 GG Nonsense Syllables

Published: Dec. 13, 2013, 5:15 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 23 seconds

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392 GG Orangehead

Published: Dec. 6, 2013, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 1 second

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251 - What Is a Gerund?

Published: Nov. 28, 2013, 6 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 47 seconds

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391 GG Scrabble Words

Published: Nov. 22, 2013, 3 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 47 seconds

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390 - Passive Voice

Published: Nov. 15, 2013, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 48 seconds

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389 GG English Plurals: Wugs and Blicks

Published: Nov. 7, 2013, 10:45 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 11 seconds

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388 GG Style Sheets

Published: Oct. 23, 2013, 1 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 41 seconds

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387 GG "Because" as a Preposition

Published: Oct. 14, 2013, 11:30 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 31 seconds

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386 - Negation in Night Vale

Published: Oct. 10, 2013, 11:30 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 13 seconds

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117 - Biweekly Versus Semiweekly

Published: Oct. 3, 2013, 5 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 57 seconds

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385 - Irony

Published: Sept. 27, 2013, midnight
Duration: 7 minutes 48 seconds

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384 - Homophones

Published: Sept. 19, 2013, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 52 seconds

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383 GG Could Care Less

Published: Sept. 12, 2013, 8:15 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 31 seconds

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50 GG Like Versus As

Published: Sept. 5, 2013, 5:30 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 32 seconds

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381 GG Prepositions

Published: Aug. 30, 2013, 1 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 28 seconds

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380 GG Participles and Gerunds

Published: Aug. 22, 2013, 11:30 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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379 GG Apostrophes in Science Fiction and Fantasy Names

Published: Aug. 15, 2013, 11:45 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 4 seconds

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378 GG Apostrophes and Plurals

Published: Aug. 9, 2013, 3 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 2 seconds

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377 GG Royal "We"

Published: Aug. 2, 2013, 3:15 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 2 seconds

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376 GG Why Do We Have Both A and An?

Published: July 19, 2013, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 32 seconds

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375 GG What Is It Called When You Mishear Song Lyrics?

Published: July 11, 2013, 9 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 21 seconds

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374 GG Rebracketing

Published: July 5, 2013, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 40 seconds

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372 GG Retronyms

Published: June 21, 2013, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 29 seconds

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371 GG Commma Splice

Published: June 14, 2013, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 21 seconds

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370 GG Why Isn't "Gruntled" A Word?

Published: June 7, 2013, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 37 seconds

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369 GG Why Does "I" Take Plural Verbs?

Published: May 31, 2013, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes

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368 GG Hyphens

Published: May 24, 2013, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 44 seconds

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367 GG The Old Editor Says

Published: May 17, 2013, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 28 seconds

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366 GG Slash

Published: May 10, 2013, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 5 seconds

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366 GG How Texting Is Changing English

Published: May 10, 2013, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 16 seconds

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285 GG "Moot" Versus "Mute"

Published: May 3, 2013, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 17 seconds

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365 GG The Language of Crime

Published: April 26, 2013, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 22 seconds

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364 GG Why Would Anyone Use "The Chicago Manual of Style"?

Published: April 19, 2013, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 13 seconds

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363 GG Writing Flashbacks

Published: April 12, 2013, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 6 seconds

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362 GG Why Are Some Portmanteaus So Awful?

Published: April 5, 2013, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 20 seconds

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361 GG Is That a Wool Sweater or a Woolen Sweater?

Published: March 29, 2013, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 43 seconds

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051 GG I'm Good

Published: March 22, 2013, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 12 seconds

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360 GG Will himself be on the pig's back this St. Patrick's Day?

Published: March 15, 2013, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 47 seconds

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359 GG Do You Tell People to Pound Sand or Pound Salt?

Published: March 8, 2013, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 10 seconds

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358 GG "Only": The Most Insidious Misplaced Modifier

Published: March 1, 2013, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 14 seconds

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357 GG Why the Plural of "Die" Is "Dice," not "Douse."

Published: Feb. 22, 2013, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 41 seconds

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356 GG Where Do I Use Commas?

Published: Feb. 15, 2013, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 16 seconds

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355 GG Subject Object

Published: Feb. 8, 2013, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 56 seconds

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354 GG Starting a Sentence with "However": Right or Wrong?

Published: Feb. 1, 2013, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 10 seconds

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353 GG Can Apple Get Away with "Funness"?

Published: Jan. 25, 2013, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 34 seconds

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352 GG How to Create and Use Figures of Speech Pt.1

Published: Jan. 18, 2013, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 4 seconds

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351 GG Pronouns: Is a Company a "Who" or a "That"?

Published: Jan. 11, 2013, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 19 seconds

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350 GG "Who" Versus "That"

Published: Jan. 4, 2013, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 34 seconds

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349 GG A Word Lover's Highlights of 2012

Published: Dec. 28, 2012, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 29 seconds

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348 GG How Webster's Screwed Up

Published: Dec. 21, 2012, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 25 seconds

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347 GG How to Use a Hyphen

Published: Dec. 14, 2012, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 41 seconds

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346 GG Tuxedo Verbs

Published: Dec. 7, 2012, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 49 seconds

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342 GG Writing for Dyslexic Readers

Published: Nov. 9, 2012, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 54 seconds

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341 GG Google Ngram and "Impact" as a Verb

Published: Nov. 2, 2012, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 15 seconds

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151 GG Just Say No to Drugs

Published: Oct. 12, 2012, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 53 seconds

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142 GG When Are Double Words OK?

Published: Sept. 28, 2012, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 42 seconds

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334 GG Using Present Tense in a Story About the Past

Published: Aug. 31, 2012, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 15 seconds

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333 GG When Is W a Vowel

Published: Aug. 24, 2012, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 8 seconds

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332 GG How Do You Tell If Something Is True?

Published: Aug. 10, 2012, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 54 seconds

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331 GG "Pet" or "Petted"? Troublesome Past Tenses

Published: Aug. 3, 2012, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 34 seconds

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330 GG The Rules of Story

Published: July 27, 2012, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 46 seconds

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329 GG "Versus"

Published: July 20, 2012, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 31 seconds

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328 GG "Decimate" and "All Right"

Published: July 13, 2012, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 50 seconds

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327 GG "Dilemma" and "Gone Missing"

Published: July 6, 2012, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 58 seconds

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326 GG "Jealousy" Versus "Envy"

Published: June 29, 2012, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 26 seconds

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325 GG So You Think You Can Edit?

Published: June 22, 2012, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 14 seconds

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324 GG When Bad Grammar Means Good Fiction

Published: June 8, 2012, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 47 seconds

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323 GG How to Write Numbers

Published: June 1, 2012, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 34 seconds

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133 GG A Historic Podcast

Published: May 18, 2012, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 14 seconds

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320 GG You Have No Idea How Weird "Do" Is

Published: May 4, 2012, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 54 seconds

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318 GG Dashes, Colons, and Commas

Published: April 20, 2012, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 41 seconds

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317 GG What Does "Proper English" Mean?

Published: April 13, 2012, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 4 seconds

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316 GG Sentence Fragments

Published: April 6, 2012, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 16 seconds

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315 GG Possessives

Published: March 30, 2012, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 10 seconds

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314 GG Mary Sue

Published: March 23, 2012, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 6 seconds

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061 GG "Bring" Versus "Take"

Published: March 16, 2012, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 22 seconds

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312 GG This NGD story is "all right."

Published: March 2, 2012, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 7 seconds

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311 GG Where Are You At?

Published: Feb. 24, 2012, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 19 seconds

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309 GG Why Do Kids Say "Versing"?

Published: Feb. 17, 2012, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 45 seconds

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308 GG Should We Abandon Standard Spelling?

Published: Feb. 10, 2012, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 27 seconds

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310 GG Stationary, Stationery, Complement, and Compliment

Published: Feb. 3, 2012, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 53 seconds

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111 GG Everybody Wants Some

Published: Jan. 27, 2012, 5:45 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 47 seconds

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306 GG "The Night Circus": Well Done Second Person Narrative

Published: Jan. 13, 2012, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 12 seconds

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305 GG Where Did the @ Symbol Come From?

Published: Jan. 6, 2012, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes

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304 GG Should You Point Out Errors?

Published: Dec. 30, 2011, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 52 seconds

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030 GG Sentence Fragments

Published: Dec. 23, 2011, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 5 seconds

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200 "Who" Versus "Whom," Advanced

Published: Dec. 11, 2011, 6 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 3 seconds

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302 GG Passive Voice

Published: Dec. 9, 2011, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 29 seconds

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301 GG Active Voice

Published: Dec. 2, 2011, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 47 seconds

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300 GG Christmas Carol Grammar

Published: Nov. 25, 2011, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 9 seconds

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299 GG Ten Tips to Banish Typos

Published: Nov. 18, 2011, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 57 seconds

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298 GG Color Your Readers' Imagination with Words

Published: Nov. 4, 2011, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 2 seconds

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297 GG How to Search a Corpus

Published: Oct. 28, 2011, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 53 seconds

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029 GG "They" as a Singular Pronoun

Published: Oct. 21, 2011, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 42 seconds

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294 GG Do You Resent Your Editor?

Published: Oct. 7, 2011, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 47 seconds

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293 When to Capitalize Seasons

Published: Sept. 29, 2011, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 6 seconds

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292 Overcoming Writers Block

Published: Sept. 23, 2011, 4:15 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes

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288 Compound Nouns

Published: Aug. 8, 2011, 4:15 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 57 seconds

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287 Compound Subjects

Published: Aug. 5, 2011, 4:15 p.m.
Duration: 10 hours

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284 Who Says Fun Cant Be an Adjective?

Published: July 14, 2011, 4:15 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 38 seconds

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283 Did Oxford Drop the Oxford Comma?

Published: July 8, 2011, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 8 seconds

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282 "Each Other" Versus "One Another"

Published: July 1, 2011, 6:45 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 6 seconds

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280 Whoever or Whomever?

Published: June 16, 2011, 6:45 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 45 seconds

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279 Capitalizing Titles

Published: June 9, 2011, 6:45 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 41 seconds

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275 Camel Case

Published: May 12, 2011, 4:15 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 16 seconds

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274 Double Subjects

Published: May 5, 2011, 4:15 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 23 seconds

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273 "A Hold" or "Ahold"?

Published: April 28, 2011, 2 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 41 seconds

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272 Do You Capitalize God?

Published: April 21, 2011, 5 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 11 seconds

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270 Commas With Participial Phrases

Published: April 7, 2011, 5 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 21 seconds

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269 Ending a Sentence With a Preposition

Published: March 31, 2011, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 2 seconds

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268 Mixing Verb Tenses

Published: March 24, 2011, 5 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 10 seconds

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267 How to Speak English Like the Irish

Published: March 17, 2011, 6:45 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 24 seconds

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264 Punctuating Questions

Published: Feb. 24, 2011, 6:45 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 8 seconds

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263 How to Write Grammatically Correct Photo Captions

Published: Feb. 17, 2011, 5:15 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 58 seconds

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262 Commas with Adjectives

Published: Feb. 10, 2011, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 10 hours

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260 Contractions

Published: Jan. 27, 2011, 6 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 24 seconds

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259 First, Second, and Third Person

Published: Jan. 20, 2011, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 44 seconds

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258 How to Write Dialogue

Published: Jan. 13, 2011, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 2 seconds

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257 Should You Ever Put a Space Before a Period?

Published: Jan. 13, 2011, 5:15 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 46 seconds

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256 Serial Comma

Published: Dec. 30, 2010, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 10 hours

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253 "Desert" Versus "Dessert"

Published: Dec. 10, 2010, 5:15 p.m.
Duration: 10 hours

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252 What Is Plagiarism?

Published: Dec. 2, 2010, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 38 seconds

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250 "Foreword" Versus "Forward"

Published: Nov. 19, 2010, 6 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 49 seconds

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249 Why Doesn’t “Veterans Day” Have an Apostrophe?

Published: Nov. 10, 2010, 5:15 p.m.
Duration: 10 hours

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248 How to Write a Better Resume

Published: Nov. 4, 2010, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 7 seconds

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246 Show, Dont Tell

Published: Oct. 28, 2010, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 42 seconds

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245 "Talk With" versus "Talk To"

Published: Oct. 22, 2010, 6:45 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 14 seconds

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243 "Think Different" or "Think Differently"

Published: Oct. 7, 2010, 4:15 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 14 seconds

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242 "Like" Versus "Such As"

Published: Sept. 30, 2010, 6:45 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 43 seconds

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240 Do All Adverbs End in "-Ly"?

Published: Sept. 16, 2010, 5 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 8 seconds

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239 Capitalizing Proper Nouns

Published: Sept. 9, 2010, 6:45 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 58 seconds

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238 Is It OK to Switch Verb Tenses?

Published: Sept. 2, 2010, 5 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 41 seconds

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235 Swearing

Published: Aug. 12, 2010, 5 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 32 seconds

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234 Does "Until" Include the Date?

Published: Aug. 5, 2010, 5 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 56 seconds

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233 Parentheses, Brackets, and Braces

Published: July 29, 2010, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 10 hours

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232 Active Voice Versus Passive Voice

Published: July 22, 2010, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 58 seconds

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231 How to Write Clear Sentences

Published: July 15, 2010, 5 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 8 seconds

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230 When to Use Female Nouns

Published: July 8, 2010, 4:15 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 36 seconds

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229 Understanding Voice and Tone in Writing

Published: July 1, 2010, 5 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 42 seconds

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228 Comma Splice

Published: June 25, 2010, 6:45 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 37 seconds

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226 How to Use Transition Words

Published: June 17, 2010, 4:15 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 48 seconds

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225 Ellipses

Published: June 10, 2010, 6:45 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes

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224 When to Use Articles Before Nouns

Published: June 4, 2010, 5 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 9 seconds

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222 Dashes, Parentheses, and Commas

Published: May 21, 2010, 3:15 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 10 seconds

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221 "Although" Versus "While"

Published: May 13, 2010, 5 p.m.
Duration: 10 hours

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219 "Bad" Versus "Badly"

Published: April 30, 2010, 6:45 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 7 seconds

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220 How to Eliminate Adverbs

Published: April 29, 2010, 5 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 7 seconds

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217 What Is Poetic License?

Published: April 15, 2010, 5 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 54 seconds

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215 Hey, That's Not Grammar Girl!

Published: April 1, 2010, 4:15 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 55 seconds

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213 Stacked Modifiers

Published: March 18, 2010, 5 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 53 seconds

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209 Does the Olympic Theme Song I Believe Have a Grammar Error?

Published: Feb. 19, 2010, 6 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 46 seconds

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206 Is "I'm Loving It" Proper Grammar?

Published: Jan. 29, 2010, 6 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 9 seconds

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205 Readers Share Their Funny Errors

Published: Jan. 21, 2010, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 10 seconds

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203 How Do You Pronounce 2010?

Published: Jan. 18, 2010, 5:15 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 5 seconds

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204 Is "Got" Proper English?

Published: Jan. 14, 2010, 6 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 56 seconds

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202 When to Use Nor

Published: Dec. 31, 2009, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 10 hours

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201 Is Ain't a Word?

Published: Dec. 25, 2009, 6 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 43 seconds

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199 "Alternate" Versus "Alternative"

Published: Dec. 5, 2009, 6 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 18 seconds

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197 "Where" Versus "In Which"

Published: Nov. 19, 2009, 6 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 7 seconds

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196 Adverbs Ending in -ly

Published: Nov. 13, 2009, 6 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes

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194 How to Use Italics

Published: Oct. 23, 2009, 6:45 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 44 seconds

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193 "Diffuse" Versus "Defuse"

Published: Oct. 16, 2009, 5 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 57 seconds

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191 How to Write a Complaint Letter

Published: Oct. 2, 2009, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 51 seconds

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190 Ellipses Spurned

Published: Sept. 25, 2009, 5 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 41 seconds

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188 "Comprise" Versus "Compose"

Published: Sept. 18, 2009, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 21 seconds

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187 Should Writers Keep a Journal?

Published: Sept. 11, 2009, 6:45 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 27 seconds

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186 Funny Misplaced Modifiers

Published: Sept. 4, 2009, 5 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 43 seconds

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185 When Should You Capitalize Titles?

Published: Aug. 28, 2009, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 42 seconds

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183 Verbs Sandwiched Between Singular and Plural Nouns

Published: Aug. 14, 2009, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 34 seconds

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184 When Should You Capitalize Words?

Published: Aug. 1, 2009, 6:45 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 47 seconds

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181 How Many Spaces After A Period?

Published: July 30, 2009, 6:45 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 52 seconds

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176 What Is Subject-Complement Agreement?

Published: July 26, 2009, 5 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 43 seconds

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180 How to Use Parallel Construction Correctly

Published: July 24, 2009, 5 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 20 seconds

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119 "Shall" Versus "Will"

Published: July 22, 2009, 4:15 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 42 seconds

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179 Can You Start a Sentence with Which?

Published: July 17, 2009, 5 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 27 seconds

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178 Do Rhetorical Questions Need a Question Mark?

Published: July 10, 2009, 5 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 17 seconds

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174 "Myself"

Published: June 12, 2009, 5 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 7 seconds

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172 "All Right" Versus "Alright"

Published: May 29, 2009, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 7 seconds

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170 Swear Words in Text

Published: May 15, 2009, 6:45 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 11 seconds

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169 Using For to Mean Because

Published: May 9, 2009, 5 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 27 seconds

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168 Troublesome Contractions (e.g., I'd've)

Published: May 1, 2009, 5 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 3 seconds

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167 Dashes Versus Colons

Published: April 23, 2009, 5 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 14 seconds

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166 Strunk and White

Published: April 17, 2009, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 8 seconds

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165 Abbreviations, Acronyms, & Initialisms

Published: April 10, 2009, 6:45 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes

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182 Are You Annoyingly Redundant?

Published: April 7, 2009, 5 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 30 seconds

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164 "One" Versus "You"

Published: April 3, 2009, 5 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 51 seconds

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177 Why Are British English and American English Different?

Published: April 3, 2009, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 6 seconds

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162 How to Write a Great Blog Comment

Published: March 20, 2009, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 8 seconds

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161 "Use" Versus "Utilize"

Published: March 13, 2009, 4:15 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 37 seconds

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158 "Flammable" Versus "Inflammable"

Published: Feb. 20, 2009, 6 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 20 seconds

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157 GG When to Use a Comma with Too

Published: Feb. 13, 2009, 4 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 1 second

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156 What is the plural of scissors

Published: Feb. 6, 2009, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 13 seconds

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155 What to Call People With Disabilities.

Published: Jan. 30, 2009, 6 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 2 seconds

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153 Do You Overuse "Of"?

Published: Jan. 16, 2009, 6 p.m.
Duration: 10 hours

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150 How to Podcast a Book

Published: Dec. 26, 2008, 5:15 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 16 seconds

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148 How to Write Your First Novel

Published: Dec. 12, 2008, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 34 seconds

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012 Wordiness And Idioms

Published: Nov. 21, 2008, 6 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 27 seconds

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146 Mixed Metaphors

Published: Nov. 13, 2008, 5:15 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 52 seconds

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144 Concrete Versus Cement

Published: Nov. 7, 2008, 5:15 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 8 seconds

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141 Appositives

Published: Oct. 17, 2008, 5 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 42 seconds

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140 Modifying Phrases at the Beginning of Sentences

Published: Oct. 10, 2008, 5 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes

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139 Is "Data" Singular or Plural?

Published: Oct. 3, 2008, 6:45 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 42 seconds

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136 Complex-Compound Sentences

Published: Sept. 19, 2008, 5 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 41 seconds

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131 Collective Nouns

Published: Sept. 2, 2008, 5 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 57 seconds

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129 Assure Versus Ensure Versus Insure

Published: Aug. 25, 2008, 6:45 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 6 seconds

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127 Begs the Question

Published: Aug. 19, 2008, 4:15 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 2 seconds

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126 - Through, Threw, and Thru

Published: Aug. 14, 2008, 5 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 20 seconds

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125 Comparatives Versus Superlatives

Published: Aug. 12, 2008, 5 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 42 seconds

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124 Better Versus Best

Published: Aug. 8, 2008, 5 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 3 seconds

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122 Is "Have Got" Acceptable English?

Published: Aug. 1, 2008, 5 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 25 seconds

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120 He Said, She Said

Published: July 25, 2008, 5 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 26 seconds

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118 Writing Accents and Dialects

Published: July 18, 2008, 5 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 38 seconds

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123 How to Avoid Cliches

Published: July 15, 2008, 4:15 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes

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116 "Than I" Versus "Than Me"

Published: July 10, 2008, 6:45 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 16 seconds

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114 Phrasal Verbs

Published: July 4, 2008, 5 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes

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113 Writing with Slang

Published: June 27, 2008, 6:15 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 51 seconds

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110 When to Leave Out "That"

Published: June 6, 2008, 5 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 5 seconds

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108 Whose for Inanimate Objects

Published: May 23, 2008, 4:15 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 16 seconds

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107 Graduated versus Graduated From

Published: May 15, 2008, 6:45 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 46 seconds

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104 Sentence Length

Published: April 25, 2008, 5 p.m.
Duration: 10 hours

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101 How to Write Percents

Published: April 4, 2008, 5 p.m.
Duration: 10 hours

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100 How to Write Numbers

Published: March 28, 2008, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 24 seconds

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007 Which Versus That

Published: March 21, 2008, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 1 second

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098 Who Versus Whom--Advanced

Published: March 7, 2008, 6 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 52 seconds

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096 May Versus Might

Published: Feb. 21, 2008, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 55 seconds

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095 Zeroscape Versus Xeriscape

Published: Feb. 15, 2008, 5:15 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 11 seconds

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093 Hyphens

Published: Jan. 31, 2008, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 57 seconds

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091 Yo as a Pronoun

Published: Jan. 10, 2008, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 1 second

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090 Went Missing

Published: Jan. 4, 2008, 6 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 49 seconds

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087 Used to Versus Use to, and Other Listener Questions

Published: Dec. 7, 2007, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 17 seconds

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086 Greeting Card Grammar

Published: Nov. 23, 2007, 6 p.m.
Duration: 10 hours

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084 People Versus Entities

Published: Nov. 16, 2007, 6 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 31 seconds

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083 Interviewing Tips

Published: Nov. 9, 2007, 6 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 46 seconds

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082 Daylight-Saving Time

Published: Nov. 9, 2007, 6 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 17 seconds

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078 Formatting Hyperlinks

Published: Oct. 5, 2007, 5 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 46 seconds

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077 Verbification of a Noun

Published: Sept. 28, 2007, 5 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 13 seconds

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076 Starting a Sentence With "Hopefully"

Published: Sept. 21, 2007, 5 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 14 seconds

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073 Simplify Your Writing

Published: Aug. 30, 2007, 5 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 11 seconds

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072 The The -- The Double The

Published: Aug. 23, 2007, 5 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 19 seconds

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070 The Asterisk (Trust Me About Grammar, Not About Baseball)

Published: Aug. 10, 2007, 5 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 32 seconds

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068 Unlawful Versus Illegal

Published: July 20, 2007, 4:15 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 26 seconds

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067 Your Versus You're

Published: July 20, 2007, 4:15 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 34 seconds

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065 Regionalisms

Published: June 29, 2007, 5 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 53 seconds

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064 Between You and Me

Published: June 26, 2007, 6:45 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 57 seconds

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056 Generating Story Ideas and Overcoming Writer's Block

Published: May 22, 2007, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 54 seconds

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055 Misplaced Modifiers

Published: May 18, 2007, 2 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 7 seconds

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048 April Fools' Day Episode

Published: April 1, 2007, 4:15 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 1 second

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266 When Should You Capitalize Cocktail and Food Names?

Published: March 11, 2007, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 22 seconds

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042 Semicolons

Published: Feb. 21, 2007, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 16 seconds

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036 Grammar Manners

Published: Jan. 12, 2007, 5:15 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 6 seconds

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031 The Lord Is Come?

Published: Dec. 15, 2006, 6 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 12 seconds

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024 Who Versus That

Published: Nov. 4, 2006, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 32 seconds

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021 Proofreading Tips

Published: Oct. 20, 2006, 5 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 21 seconds

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165 Abbreviations, Acronyms, And Initialisms

Published: Oct. 10, 2006, 5 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 25 seconds

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Excessive Redundant Redundancies

Published: Oct. 8, 2006, 5 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 30 seconds

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015 Title Capitalization Rules

Published: Sept. 24, 2006, 5 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 30 seconds

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182 Title Capitalization Rules

Published: Sept. 24, 2006, 5 p.m.
Duration: 10 hours

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11 Grammar Style Issues

Published: Sept. 7, 2006, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 44 seconds

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126 Threw, Through, Thru

Published: Sept. 4, 2006, 6:45 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes

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276 Is "Graduated College" Wrong?

Published: May 26, 2001, 6:45 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 20 seconds

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