Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
Five-time winner of Best Education Podcast in the Podcast Awards. Grammar Girl provides short, friendly tips to improve your writing and feed your love of the English language. Whether English is your first language or your second language, these grammar, punctuation, style, and business tips will make you a better and more successful writer. Grammar Girl is a Quick and Dirty Tips podcast.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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Asking experts about language (interview with Steve Kleinedler, former executive editor of the American Heritage Dictionary Usage Panel)
Published: Sept. 12, 2023, 9 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes
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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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Imagine life as a fiction editor (interview with Amy Schneider, author of the Chicago Guide to Copy Editing Fiction)
Published: June 13, 2023, 9 a.m.Duration: 29 minutes 32 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, midnightDuration: 20 minutes 16 seconds
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Are Wisdom Teeth Smart? Capitalizing Degree Names. Sussies 2
Published: June 3, 2022, midnightDuration: 15 minutes 29 seconds
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Whatever Happened to "Thou"?
Published: May 27, 2022, midnightDuration: 14 minutes 58 seconds
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How Spellers Tackle the 'Dreaded Schwa'
Published: May 20, 2022, midnightDuration: 17 minutes 12 seconds
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Why "'Em" Isn't Short for "Them." The Subjunctive. Sussies.
Published: May 13, 2022, midnightDuration: 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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Surprise! These Names Are Trademarks. How to Write 'Dos and Don'ts' (or Is That 'Do's and Don'ts'?). Wording Your Mixes.
Published: Oct. 14, 2021, 6 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes
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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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A vast number of words have surprising origins. We talked about some today, including "scientist," "impressionist," "beatnik," and "paradigm."
Published: March 25, 2021, 6 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 22 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, midnightDuration: 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, midnightDuration: 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, midnightDuration: 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, midnightDuration: 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, midnightDuration: 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, midnightDuration: 8 minutes 50 seconds
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525 GG Food Idioms. 'Affective' or 'Effective'
Published: July 15, 2016, midnightDuration: 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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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