Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
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.
Latest Episode
How a long-lost yearbook revealed the origin of 'hella,' with Ben Zimmer (25.12.2025)
Previous Episodes
- The origin of X in algebra. Why we say ‘how come’ for ‘why.’ Water handles.
- 2025 Words of the Year, with Jess Zafarris and Danny Hieber
- 'Pride and prejudice' before Jane Austen. Was Parson Brown a real person? Happy Panda.
- The 'sheeple' incident, with Stefan Fatsis
- The rise of the 'hamster wheel.' The many names of Santa Claus. Unattractive turtles.
- An inspiring tutor, 'New York System' hot dogs, and 'queen spotting.'
- Why Brits eat biscuits and Americans eat cookies. Why brands keep nouning everything. Hamster alert.
- Rob Drummond on languaging and our fluid speaking identities
- The sinful fork (and other dinner-table surprises)
- Why print dictionaries still matter, with Peter Sokolowski
- Personification in language and AI. Dictums, maxims, and proverbs. Expensitive.
- The secret rules of crossword puzzles, with Natan Last
- How '23 skidoo' & 'at sixes and sevens' are related to '6-7.'
- What a ‘Science' magazine experiment says about the future of AI in journalism, with Abigail Eisenstadt
- What Roman togas have to do with today's elections. 'Home in' versus 'hone in.'
- Finding the true history of words, with Ben Zimmer
- ‘Ghost words’ and their history. Rules for ‘between’ and ‘among.’ Wilsoning.
- How to be a ‘feisty freelancer,’ with Suzanne Bowness
- Shakespeare's ‘wherefore’ and other false friends. The language of fear. A Tom.
- Why Q needs U and how hieroglyphics created our alphabet, with Danny Bate
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