Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is verbification. Last week police used a Taser on University of Florida student Andrew Meyer as they struggled to remove him from an auditorium where Senator John Kerry was speaking. The Web has been filled with deba...
Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is units of measurethose words and symbols that come after numbers. This first point might seem self-evident: you put a space between the number and the unit of measure. Even though it seems obvious, I'm telling you b...
March 4 is National Grammar Day, so I have a special top-10 show to celebrate the occasion, and before you argue with me, read the whole explanation about why each of these is a myth. The podcast version of this article is brought to you by Audible.c...
Grammar Girl here. Today I'm announcing the top five Grammar Girl pet peeves of 2008. About a month ago, I asked Grammar Girl listeners to submit their pet peeves for consideration for the peeves of 2008 list, and boy, do you have a lot of peeves! Wh...
Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is text messaging. Karel (pronounced Carl) from Toronto, Canada, asked if I think text messaging is affecting how people write in formal situations. Well, I know it is for some people because Mia tells me so in this n...
Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is The Elements of Style by Strunk and White. 50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice Fifty years ago this month, Strunk and White's The Elements of Style as we know it today was published*, and in honor of the occasion, th...
Grammar Girl here. I believe I've said before that speaking and writing are two different skills. Since I'm in a summertime mood, I thought it would be fun to go beyond grammar rules today and talk about some funny errorssuch as spoonerisms, mondegre...
Grammar Girl here. I believe I've said before that speaking and writing are two different skills. Since I'm in a summertime mood, I thought it would be fun to go beyond grammar rules today and talk about some funny errorssuch as spoonerisms, mondegre...
Grammar Girl here. Aliza in Alaska recently asked whether she should use who or that to refer to a board of directors. Today we're going to decide whether companies are people or things; in other words, whether you use the relative pronoun who or tha...
Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is subversive Christmas carols. And now, on to our question. There's a listener named Kat whose holiday joy is crushed every time she hears the Christmas carol Joy to the World. She asks: Why do we sing 'Joy to the wo...
Grammar Girl here. This episode is a new and improved version of i.e. versus e.g. Misusing these two abbreviations is one of the top five mistakes I used to see when editing technical documents. There's so much confusion that in some of the drafts I...
Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is how to write your first novel. Since youre listening to this podcast, you probably love the English language and the written word. And if you do, you probably have an itch to write that first novel. Well, you're no...
Grammar Girl talks about the difficulties she encountered trying to use a spreadsheet to organize her upcoming book, and explains how paper solved the problem. There is no transcript for this video podcast. This show was not scripted. Please forgive...
An April Fools' show in which Will Ross from 118 Migration impersonates Grammar Girl. Grammar Girl here... This show is also sponsored by Grammar Girls Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing. I've hidden a golden bookmark in five of the copies that...
Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is how to correct other people's grammar. Dr. David asked about how he can correct other people's grammar without losing friends or sounding like a snob. A couple of people, whom I won't name, asked how to deal with b...
