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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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980. This week, I talk with with Anne Curzan about the fascinating world of language evolution, her new book, "Says Who? A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Language," and why linguists should take marketing tips from Apple and why Ben Franklin thought the word "colonize" was bad.
Previous episodes
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1020 - Exploring the 'Funnest' Parts of Language with Anne CurzanThu, 25 Apr 2024
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1019 - The birth of punctuation: from oral traditions to silent reading. Noun clusters. A wing wang in a mucket.Tue, 23 Apr 2024
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1018 - How to become a supercommunicator, with Charles DuhiggThu, 18 Apr 2024
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1017 - Big changes in Associated Press style. The 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' finale was catawampus. BappyTue, 16 Apr 2024
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1016 - Pet-Speak: From Meowlogisms to Zoomies. 'Imply' or 'Infer'?Tue, 9 Apr 2024
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1015 - You love to read. Could you narrate?Tue, 2 Apr 2024
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1014 - Memory, Aging, and the Lingering 'Anyways'Tue, 26 Mar 2024
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1013 - A nuclear win at the Oscars. CamelCase. One clo.Tue, 19 Mar 2024
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1012 - From grunts to grammar. The Irish 'after doing.' The winning NGD poem!Tue, 12 Mar 2024
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1011 - Where did our language start?Tue, 5 Mar 2024
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1010 - 'Addictive' or 'addicting'? Types of nouns. FolleyTue, 27 Feb 2024
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1009 - Tracing the origins of Miami's new English. Why it's not a 'gumballs' machine. Embassy Sweets.Tue, 20 Feb 2024
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1008 - Taylor Swift Doesn't Need Your Grammatical Approval. In Love. Foil Lump Surprise.Tue, 13 Feb 2024
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1007 - 'A' versus 'an.' 'Larruping' rides again. Euonyms. Flavoring.Tue, 6 Feb 2024
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1006 - From 'hwhat' to 'what': Tracing a letter's disappearing act. Barkhouse.Tue, 30 Jan 2024
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1005 - The listener show! (canceled, think, lettuce, funnily, episode numbers, at about, mangos, musgos)Tue, 23 Jan 2024
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1004 - Technology changes how we write. Who was the first Goody Two Shoes?Tue, 16 Jan 2024
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1003 - More than fluff: Understanding 'needless' words. Larruping. Chicken surprise.Tue, 9 Jan 2024
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1002 - The psychology (and language) of time. Commas are like people on the subway. Fox chores.Tue, 2 Jan 2024
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1001 - A rizzy word-of-the-year chat (with Jess Zafarris)Tue, 26 Dec 2023
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1000 - Why English has silent letters. Dayjamas.Tue, 26 Dec 2023
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999 - The special sauce of human language. Gotten. NATO alphabet. A1 sauce.Tue, 19 Dec 2023
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998 - What's the difference between Hispanic, Chicano, Latino, Latinx, and Latine? Can something 'grow' smaller? Musko.Tue, 12 Dec 2023
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997 - When does a house become a mansion? Giving someone house.Tue, 5 Dec 2023
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996 - From metal type to metaphor: printing terms that extended their reach. The positive 'anymore.' Gigglemare.Tue, 28 Nov 2023
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995 - Why is Black Friday black? The NATO alphabet. Byeloveyou.Tue, 21 Nov 2023
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994 - The science of the plot twist. Irregardless. Spug.Tue, 14 Nov 2023
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993 - Omnishambles! Military slang across the pond (interview with Ben Yagoda)Tue, 7 Nov 2023
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992 - Cliches. Organic. Bully pulpit. Fimfy.Tue, 31 Oct 2023
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991 - The dark histories behind your favorite scary words, with Jess ZafarrisTue, 24 Oct 2023
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990 - Namesake. Commentate. SpriglyTue, 17 Oct 2023
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989 - How to write great topic sentences. Fanilects. Throwawayable.Tue, 10 Oct 2023
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988 - When 'nice' was bad and 'bully' was good. Is 'preorder' redundant? High-intensity transformer.Tue, 3 Oct 2023
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987 - Think faster and talk smarter. Tips from Matt Abrahams that will make you a better writer and speakerTue, 26 Sep 2023
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986 - Did Disney nail the pronunciation of 'Caribbean'? How to write equations. Chuther.Tue, 19 Sep 2023
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985 - Asking experts about language (interview with Steve Kleinedler, former executive editor of the American Heritage Dictionary Usage Panel)Tue, 12 Sep 2023
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984 - When you shouldn't 'write tight.' 'Behead' versus 'decapitate.' YesHony.Tue, 5 Sep 2023
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983 - Say hwat?! 'Anxious' versus 'eager.' Pink stein.Tue, 29 Aug 2023
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982 - The wonders of the 'a-' prefix in English. 'Personal' versus 'personnel.'Tue, 22 Aug 2023
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981 - Hilarious typos (and how to avoid them). Why do we 'take' a walk?Tue, 15 Aug 2023
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980 - Have you ridden an acoustic bike lately? Write it tight.Tue, 8 Aug 2023
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979 - Did you know that on US Army bases, soldiers get a tattoo every day? Keep writing.Tue, 1 Aug 2023
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978 - People have ~feelings~ about the exclamation point (Florence Hazrat interview)Tue, 25 Jul 2023
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977 - 15 years of podcasting with Money Girl and Nutrition DivaFri, 21 Jul 2023
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976 - 'Less' versus 'fewer.' Fun names for fingers. Scunscreen.Tue, 18 Jul 2023
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975 - 'Inspirational' or 'aspirational'? The surprising dangers of ChatGPT. Spaghetto.Tue, 11 Jul 2023
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974 - Phrasal verb mysteries and minced oath origins. Night water.Tue, 4 Jul 2023
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973 - Unlocking the mystery of 'ever words' and Latin abbreviations. Juna.Tue, 27 Jun 2023
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972 - Why words can suddenly look unrecognizable. Learn to love the full stop. Marley.Tue, 20 Jun 2023
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971 - Imagine life as a fiction editor (interview with Amy Schneider, author of the Chicago Guide to Copy Editing Fiction)Tue, 13 Jun 2023
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