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.

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Is That a Tombstone, Gravestone, or Headstone? Why Is the Sound of a Human Scream So Terrifying? 2021-10-28
Using Present Tense in a Story About the Past. Beck and Call. Tie-Dye Trees. 2021-10-21
Surprise! These Names Are Trademarks. How to Write 'Dos and Don'ts' (or Is That 'Do's and Don'ts'?). Wording Your Mixes. 2021-10-14
The Hedonometer and Your Feelings. What Does 'Schnozz' Mean? 2021-10-07
How Do You Pronounce 'Tomato'? Why Is 'Chiropractic' Singular. Fish. 2021-09-30
The Power of Very Specific Words, with Joel Schwartzberg 2021-09-23
How to Really Talk Like a Pirate. When Do You Need a Comma Before 'Because'? 2021-09-16
Why and When 'Very Unique' Is Wrong. Capitalizing 'Delta Variant' (or Not). Happy to You. 2021-09-09
Naked Idioms. Short-Lived. Capitalizing Earth. Hector Protector. 2021-09-02
The Origin of 'Honeymoon.' 'Where' Versus 'In Which.' Fevesteter. 2021-08-26
Weird Words for Alcohol. Starting a Sentence with 'However.' Fam-ished. 2021-08-19
How Storytelling Makes a Difference (and How to Do It Well) 2021-08-13
What's the Opposite of Deja Vu? Commas Between Adjectives 2021-08-05
The Best Stories from 15 Years of Grammar Girl 2021-07-29
What the Two Spellings of Stationary/ery Have to Do with Booksellers. Why Pronunciations Change. 2021-07-22
'Fish' or 'Fishes'? Why Do We Call Out 'Nothing' as 'Bupkis'? 2021-07-15
'If' Versus 'Whether.' Why We Say 'The Exception That Proves the Rule.' 2021-07-08
Trundle, Amble, Roam, and Shamble. How Some Preposition Use Has Changed Over Time. 2021-07-01
Pedantic Nonsense Up with Which I Will Not Put! 'Discreet' or 'Discrete'? 2021-06-24
Starting a Sentence with a Conjunction: Right or Wrong? Good 'Subpar' and Bad 'Subpar.' 2021-06-17
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