Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is graduation. I can't believe it's already May. Graduation season is around the corner, which means my inbox will soon be full of complaints about the phrase graduated college. And those complainers are right to be a...
Grammar Girl here. It's a rare bonus episode! Today's topics are generating story ideas and overcoming writers block. Matt from College Park wrote in saying that the podcast has helped his writing, and now his only problem is finding something to wri...
Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is redundant acronyms. Some of you know that I'm a working writer. I've had some big deadlines over the last few weeks, so that's why there haven't been as many episodes out; but my work is always a huge inspiration f...
Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is compound possession, but a couple of people told me they expected last week's episode to be about the word capital, since the iTunes title was A Capital Idea. So I'll address that question first. Here's Scott: Comp...
Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is how to deal with electronic citations. Listener Question Now to get started, here's a listener question: Hi, Grammar Girl. My name is Laura and I am a teacher of 9th-grade English and a big fan of your podcast. I'v...
Grammar Girl here. Today's topics are style guides and how to deal with book titles. Joe called in with this question: With all of the style guides that are out there -- APA, MLA -- why would anyone use Chicago? I was finding it very hard to believe...
I hope you enjoy this April Fools' Day show. It was created by Will Ross, host of The Traveling Avatar's Quick and Dirty Tips for a Better Second Life. [I quick-posted the transcript for the listeners stationed in Iraq. I didn't realize they can't li...
Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is the difference between abbreviations, acronyms, and initialisms. Unfortunately, you can't call any abbreviation made up of a phrase's first letters an acronym. Sometimes they are initialisms. Acronyms But let's bac...
Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is the difference between abbreviations, acronyms, and initialisms. It's kind of an extension of the last episode, because I want to clarify the difference between abbreviations and acronyms. Any shortened form of a w...
Today we're going to talk about the difference between the words between and among. Between Versus Among You may have noticed that I said we were going to talk about the difference between the words between and among. I used the word between because...
