Grammar Girl

Quick and Dirty Tips

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...

Episodes

Sarah L. Kaufman on the shared rhythm of dance, critical writing, and finding better verbs

What 'kith and kin' and 'beck and call' have in common

Word wagons and bobbasheelys: Life at DARE, with Joan Houston Hall

Why does 'shh' mean the same thing in so many languages, and what's 'broad' about daylight?

How comics are made, with Glenn Fleishman

Why does the U.S. have so many regional accents?

Why "golly" and "gosh" are going the way of the dinosaur, with Sali Tagliamonte

The secret language of gamers. Plus, why ducks don't ‘duck’ from danger

'Writing for AI' and the flaws of AI detectors, with Sean Goedecke

Shark Week: 6 saying from pop culture

Decoding the Chinese character paradox, with Dr. Charles Kemp

Isn't it ironic? Plus, the man behind the guillotine

Saving Canadian lexicography, with John Chew

Snowclones: fill-in-the-blank phrases we can’t stop remixing. Plus, is it 'RBIs' or 'RBI'?

Building a beloved resource for word lovers, with Doug Harper

How to answer the question 'What's your book about?'

Fossil words, eponyms, and a miscellany of weird facts, with Jess Zafarris and Shannon Miller

Why 'love' means 'zero' in tennis

Tomi Adeyemi: The writing life

The bouba-kiki effect in baby chicks, with Dr. Maria Loconsole