Grammar Minute
By Lauren Smyth
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Saving the English language 60 seconds at a time.
| Episode | Date |
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Spring Clean Your Commas
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Apr 23, 2026 |
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How to Read Numbers
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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Quotation Marks Aren't for Emphasis
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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Eight Parts of Speech in 60 Seconds
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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Waiting for vs. Waiting on
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Mar 12, 2026 |
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Grammar Hall of Shame - Double Negatives
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Mar 10, 2026 |
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Weird English Words
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Mar 05, 2026 |
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What Time Should You Show Up For "Supper"?
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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Nobody Knows What "Biweekly" Means
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Feb 26, 2026 |
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Hoot Owls, Humans, and Who/Whom
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Feb 24, 2026 |
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What's So Bad About Dangling Prepositions?
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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The Inverted Pyramid
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Feb 17, 2026 |
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How to Pluralize "Yes"
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Feb 12, 2026 |
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Yes, We Can Tell You Used AI
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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You "Really" Don't Need This Word
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Feb 05, 2026 |
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We're Back ... With More Enormities
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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How to Use AI the Right Way
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Nov 28, 2025 |
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It's Obvious You Used AI
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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It "Costed" Less
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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A Brief Note on Annotating
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Nov 21, 2025 |
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"Between" vs "Among"
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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Why I'm Not an "Alumni"
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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Make New Cliches
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Nov 07, 2025 |
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What Counts as Jargon?
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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The Meaningless Word "Meaningful"
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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When You Shouldn't Quote
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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Don't Cite Encyclopedias
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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And Now, Conjunctions
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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It's Never "Alot"
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Oct 24, 2025 |
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Eight Parts of Speech in Sixty Seconds
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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Bona-Fide Good Grammar
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Oct 20, 2025 |
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My Parents, Ayn Rand and God
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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Never Start a Sentence with a Number
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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Is "Percent" Singular or Plural?
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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Driver License or Driver's License?
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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Phonics vs. "Whole Word"
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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In Defense of Bullet Points
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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It's Very Bad to Use the Word "Very"
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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"Further" vs "Farther"
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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Antidisestablishmentarianism (Don't Use Long Words)
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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Grammar Errors in Song Lyrics
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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How Long Is Too Long?
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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The Longest Word in the English Language
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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Why Good Reading Makes Good Writing
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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Why Good Typing Makes Good Grammar
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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How to Differentiate Character Voices
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Sep 15, 2025 |
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Do You Really Need That Hyphen?
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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What Is an En Dash?
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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What Is an Em Dash?
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Sep 08, 2025 |
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Can Inanimate Nouns Be Possessive?
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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The History of the Asterisk
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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When to Capitalize "Mom" and "Dad"
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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"U.S." vs. "US"
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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Why Good Writers Need Editors
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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"Capital" vs. "Capitol"
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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Good Grammar Doesn't Prove AI
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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PLEASE USE PARAGRAPH BREAKS.
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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Em Dashes, En Dashes, and Hyphens
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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Clean-Cut vs Clear-Cut
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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Y'all vs. All Y'all
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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Tips for Effective Foreshadowing
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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"Weary" vs. "Wary"
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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WARSAFE Release Day (& How to Publish a Book)
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May 06, 2025 |
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SPECIAL EPISODE - Interview with Samantha Mendell, Editor & Author
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May 05, 2025 |
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Thank You, Hillsdale College!
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May 05, 2025 |
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How to Speed Read
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May 02, 2025 |
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Making Plurals Possessive (Grammar Hall of Shame)
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May 01, 2025 |
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World Pilots' Day: A Study in Grammar
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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History of the Dollar Sign
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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REBOOT - Interrobang‽
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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REBOOT - How Are You?
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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REBOOT - Antecedents
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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REBOOT - Run-On Sentences
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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This was the first-ever episode.
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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"Enormity" Returns
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Apr 14, 2025 |
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What Does SOS Stand For? (Backronyms)
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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Doug Allen's Guide Part 2: Three Tips
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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Doug Allen's Writing Guide: "Where" vs "In Which"
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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"In a Nutshell"
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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ARCHIVES: Grammar Fun Facts, Part 2
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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ARCHIVES: Grammar Fun Facts, Part 1
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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ARCHIVES: What Does It Mean to "Beg the Question?"
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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ARCHIVES: Every Day vs Everyday
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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ARCHIVES: I.E. vs E.G.
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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When the Music Turns the Volume Down
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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SPECIAL EPISODE: Interview with Esther Pipkin, YA Fantasy Author
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Mar 30, 2025 |
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History of the Pound/Hash Sign
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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Why You Shouldn't Plan
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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The Most Important Part
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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"On a Dime"
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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Bring Back Blunt Emails
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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Against Emoji in Emails
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Mar 21, 2025 |
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Contrary to Contranyms
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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How Many Spaces Belong After a Period?
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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History of the Percent Sign
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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The History of "OK"
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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OK, Okay, and o.k.
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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How to Capitalize Titles
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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A Bad Book Title
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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The "Enormity" of These Headlines
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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Are Contractions Acceptable in Formal Writing?
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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The Return of the Biweekly Meeting
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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"Can" vs. "May" - The Case of the Electric Guitar
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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When You Need an Apostrophe (And When You Don't)
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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How to Self-Edit
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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The Passivity of the Passive Voice
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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The Eight Parts of Speech (In 60 Seconds)
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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Subjective vs. Objective Pronouns
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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When Is Concision Too Concise?
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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RERUN- Fun Grammar Facts, Part 2
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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Valentine's Day (A Grammatical Special)
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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RERUN - Fun Grammar Facts, Part I
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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RERUN - Shared Apostrophes
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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RERUN - Irregardless
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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History of the @ (At Sign)
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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History of the & (Ampersand)
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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It's Not That Serious! (Exclamation Marks)
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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It Isn't Never Right to Use Double Negatives
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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Why You Need That Serial Comma
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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"Ten Items or Less"
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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Show, Don't Tell
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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Why "Very Important" Isn't Important At All
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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Scare Quotes, Emphasis, and Sarcasm
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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Everyone Hates Semicolons
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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A Warning Against Adjective Overuse
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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Fiction Tip: Create Your Own Style Guide
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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Chocolate Books and the Dangers of Foreign Words
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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Is Social Media Harming Our Writing Skills?
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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"Weary" vs. "Wary"
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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RERUN: The Collar of the Cat - And Why That Sounds Wrong
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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RERUN: One hundred, 100, or one-hundred?
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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Writing & Artificial Intelligence
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Nov 28, 2024 |
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Thanksgiving Special: Writing Thank-You Notes
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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In Defense of "Skedaddle"
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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"Warsafe" Cover Reveal + Creating Emphasis
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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Don't Use These Words
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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Should You Formally Study Grammar?
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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RERUN - None of Us Is Ready for This Grammar Rule
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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RERUN - Banish Flabby Opinion Statements
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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Brand Names Are Capitalized - And Yes, "Trampoline" Is a Brand
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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The Enormity of "Enormity" Misused
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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Is There a Place for Cliches in Good Writing?
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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Waiting "On" = Fancy Butlers
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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RERUN: The Conciseness of "Concision"
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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SPECIAL EPISODE: Interview with Sophia Hansen, Author of Water's Break
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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RERUN: It's Not Unlikely That You've Seen This Before
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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Inflammable: In Flames or Un-Flammable?
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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Imply vs. Infer
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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RERUN: Hoot Owls, Humans, and the Who/Whom Debate
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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RERUN: Cats & Compound Nouns
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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Is English Really That Hard?
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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Should You Put a Comma Before "And?"
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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SPECIAL EPISODE: Interview with Dr. Hugh Ross, Author of The Creator and the Cosmos
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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Corporations Aren't Alive (Singular "They")
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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Incomplete Comparisons
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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Does Your Story Really Need an Ellipsis?
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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Recap: "Affect" vs. "Effect"
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Sep 10, 2024 |
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"Enamored of" or "Enamored With?"
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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How to Get What You Want
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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You Were Being Chased--By An Alligator!
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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Run, Forrest, Run--But Not Too Far!
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Jun 24, 2024 |
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Way Back Then Was Better Than You Thought
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May 02, 2024 |
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What Do You Mean, There's No Grammar Minute?!
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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"She laughed softly" or "she softly laughed?"
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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Why "an hour" but not "a hotel?"
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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"Mean You" - Subjective vs. Objective
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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Commas After Adverbs
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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SPECIAL EPISODE: Interview with YA Science Fiction Author Lyndsey Lewellen
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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Single-Sentence Paragraphs
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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SPECIAL EPISODE: Interview with Cathy McCrumb, Science Fiction Author
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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Preposition Endings - When You Don't Need Them
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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Diaereses: The Best of Diacritical Marks
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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The Compelling Case for Admirable Adjectives
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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The Infamous "Not Un-"
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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The Magic of "Iff"
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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The Case for Ungrammatical Emails
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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You're LITERALLY So Wrong!
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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Prepping for the Nuclear Apocalypse
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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"Based On" vs. "Based Off"
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Dr. Steele's Spelling Minute: British vs. American Words
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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It's Voting Season: Grammar Matters (Maybe More than You Think)
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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That vs Who (Will Make You Sound Smart)
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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"More Than" vs. "Over" (Sorry, AP Style Guide)
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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The Most Grammatically Confusing Holiday (Presidents' Day)
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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Plurals vs. Apostrophes (A Bigger Rivalry Than the Super Bowl)
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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It's All Well and Good (Can You Say "I Feel Good?")
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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Discrete vs. Discreet (Hint: It's Not British vs. American)
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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The Enormity of Commonly Misused Words, Part 2
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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The Power of Short Sentences
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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Do you ever get anything "for free?"
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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SPECIAL EPISODE: "Haven" Sci-Fi Audio Drama
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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Using Foreign Words in English Writing
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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A Writer Responds to ChatGPT
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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Pronoun Abuse - Stop It. Get Some Help.
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Is It Time to Break the Rules of Grammar?
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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Me Either vs. Me Neither
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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Toward or Towards?
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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Based On vs. Based Off
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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Dangling Modifiers (In Honor of National Coffee Day)
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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The Golden Rule of Commas
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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What's an Interrobang ‽
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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How to Answer "How Are You?"
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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Words That Don't Exist (So Don't Use Them)
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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The Sin of Irregardless - Why It's Wrong
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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Weird: Apostrophe Direction Matters
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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Carrots, Karats, Carats, and Carets - What's the Difference?
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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Each Other vs. One Another
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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Loose vs. Lose (Grammar Hall of Shame)
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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Fewer vs. Less (A Quick Review)
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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Grammar Hall of Shame - Double Negatives
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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Grammar Hall of Shame - Adverbs vs. Adjectives
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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Grammar Hall of Shame - Run-On Sentences
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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Grammar Hall of Shame - Adjective Verbs
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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Book Titles: Underline, Quotes, or Italics?
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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What Time Should You Show Up for "Supper?"
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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Waiting For vs. Waiting On
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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There, Their, They're - Part III
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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Their, They're (Part II)
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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They're, Their - Part I
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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Catching Tiny Grammar Mistakes (Part II)
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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Catching Tiny Grammar Mistakes (Part I)
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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"Lay" vs. "Lie" - A Topic I've Been Avoiding
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Weird English Words (For Decoration Only)
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May 30, 2023 |
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Flip Phones and Text Abbreviations - Are They Still Appropriate?
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May 25, 2023 |
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Creating Emphasis Without Quotation Marks
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May 23, 2023 |
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"Quotes, Not Emphasis"
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May 18, 2023 |
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Eight Parts of Speech in Sixty Seconds
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May 16, 2023 |
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How to Write a List
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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The Most Tastiest Chocolate Doesn't Exist
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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Is "No" a Complete Sentence? Maybe.
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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Hoot Owls, Humans, and the Who/Whom Debate
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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Addressing the Address: Stress and Parts of Speech
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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The Collar of the Cat (And Why You Shouldn't Say That)
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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Double Negatives Part 2: The Sneaky Negatives
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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Double Negatives Part 1: The "N" Negatives
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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Weird & Wild English, Part II
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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Weird & Wild English, Part I
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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Pontifications on Semicolons
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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You May, and You Might
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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The Case of the Unknown "It"
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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How to Impress a Professor (Title Capitalization)
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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None of Us Is Ready for This Grammar Rule
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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Wishing You a Grammatical Valentine's Day
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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Banish Flabby Opinion Statements
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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The Enormity of Words
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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The Biweekly Meeting
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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Grammar Is the Best Subject - Because the Best Subject Is Grammar!
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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The Conciseness of "Concision"
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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It's Not Unlikely That You've Seen This Before ...
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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Friends Share Everything - Even (Sometimes) Apostrophes
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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Not Enough Time, Part 1
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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Hadrian, Mittens, & Compound Nouns
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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Cats, Movies, & Me (Preposition Order)
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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Semicolons vs. Commas
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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Everyday Words, Every Day
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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Let's Compare!
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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One hundred, 100, or one-hundred?
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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Plural Possessives
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Sep 12, 2022 |