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
Why ‘Useless Etymology’ gives you super powers, with Jess Zafarris (02.10.2025)
Previous Episodes
- Can you use ‘epicenter’ for positive things? The etymology of ‘bro.’ Mukwonago, Oconomowoc. 30.09.2025
- Adapting a classic: from words to watercolors, with K. Woodman-Maynard 25.09.2025
- Dime idioms. ‘HoCo’ and syllable acronyms. Pulling a Trevor 23.09.2025
- How algorithms are changing the meaning of words, with Adam Aleksic 18.09.2025
- The pirate history of ‘scallywag.’ ‘Used to’ versus ‘use to.’ Cheese grits. 16.09.2025
- From clay tablets to the Gutenberg press, with Keith Houston 11.09.2025
- Why we have indents. More on Formica. Running on Edgar. 09.09.2025
- The surprising ways we gesture about time and space, with Lauren Gawne 04.09.2025
- Vonnegut’s semicolon rule. What age has to do with language. Chocolate donut. 02.09.2025
- Why we say 'near miss.' How dogs got their names. Stupid dog Jackie. 26.08.2025
- How to build a successful writers’ newsletter, with Jane Friedman 21.08.2025
- What is 'versing'? ‘Whatchamacallit' and other placeholder words. Chicken. 19.08.2025
- AI's impact on translators, untranslatable Dutch words, and more, with Heddwen Newton 14.08.2025
- Double possessives. Words that do double duty. The monkeys aren't working. 12.08.2025
- New words: 'beer muscles' & 'waka jumpers,' with Fiona McPherson. 07.08.2025
- How pronouns reveal our psychology. How'd we get our alphabet? Tabagogox. 05.08.2025
- ‘Spark words’ and the hidden history of ‘panic’ and ‘Ritalin,’ with Martha Barnette 31.07.2025
- 'Heat wave' vs. 'cold snap.' Why reading stories makes you smarter. Rogering. 29.07.2025
- Why plain English matters in science (and everywhere else), with Anne Greene 24.07.2025
- 'Y' plurals. Bill Labov's linguistic legacy. Choo-choo 22.07.2025
