514 GG Brouhaha. New Words. One Fell Swoop.

Published: April 29, 2016, 12:15 a.m.

Last week, ESPN fired Curt Schilling because of offensive remarks he made on social media, and in his follow-up statement, Schilling referred to the brouhaha, but he misspelled the word as brew ha ha, like the name of a beerfest in my hometown. (Follow along on the website: http://j.mp/brouhaha-origin)\n\nMerriam-Webster added "athleisure" to the unabridged dictionary, but the editors had been watching the word for a while before they decided to add it. In a "Words We\u2019re Watching\u201d blog post in July of 2015, they wrote \u201c'Athleisure' refers to casual clothing \u2014 like yoga pants, sweat pants, and hoodies \u2014 that are designed to be worn both for exercising and for doing (almost) everything else.\u201d (Follow along on the website: http://j.mp/2016NewWords)\n\nMost people know that if you do something in one fell swoop, you do it all at once--as in, \u201cI sat down last night and made my website in one fell swoop.\u201d But what does "fell" mean? And who is swooping? (Follow along on the website: http://j.mp/one-fell-swoop)\n\nPODCAST AWARDS\nNominate Grammar Girl for Best Education Podcast at http://PodcastAwards.com (They'll ask for the show URL. Use this: http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-girl)\n\nSPONSORS\nhttp://Earnest.com/grammar\nhttp://weebly.com/grammar\n\nAMAZON AFFILIATE CODE\nhttp://quickanddirtytips.com/amazon\n\nE-BOOK: GRAMMAR GIRL'S QUICK AND DIRTY TIPS FOR BETTER WRITING\nOn sale for $2.99 through April:\nKindle: http://amzn.to/1RRJDAe \nNook: http://bit.ly/1qmUsBi \n\nFOLLOW GRAMMAR GIRL\nTwitter: http://twitter.com/grammargirl\nFacebook: http://facebook.com/grammargirl\nSnapchat: http://snapchat.com/add/thatgrammargirl\nPinterest: http://pinterest.com/realgrammargirl\nInstagram: http://instagram.com/thegrammargirl\nLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/grammar-girl