438 GG Why Do People Say Punctuation Out Loud?
"Vaccine" Versus "Vaccination." Syelle Graves explains why people say things such as "We never leave any soldier behind. Period," and more generally, the relationship between speech and writing. A doo...
16 Loka 201421min
437 GG What’s the difference between England, Great Britain, and the UK?
I know all you European listeners think it’s ridiculous that Americans don’t know the difference between England and Britain, but a British friend told me that many of you don’t know the difference be...
9 Loka 20147min
436 GG Why People Have Always Been Confused About Apostrophes
An interview with Ammon Shea about the confusing history of apostrophes. Hanged Versus Hung. The story of the Victorian Great Exhibition, where Adolphe Sax displayed his invention: the saxophone. Hos...
2 Loka 201413min
435 GG We Might Could Harvest the Corn
Yes, you can start a sentence with "because." Here's how to do it.What are helping verbs (also called auxiliary verbs), and why do people in some regions say things such as "might could" and "might sh...
25 Syys 201413min
434 GG Ya Shank: The Made-Up Swear Words of 'The Maze Runner'
Insults, swear words, and world-building for young adults: In an interview with James Dashner, I got the inside scoop on the language of "The Maze Runner." Read the transcript: http://bit.ly/1poctaV H...
18 Syys 201410min
433 GG Why People Mix Up the Pronouns "Me" and "I"
I can tell you which pronouns to use, but it takes a linguist to explain WHY people get confused. Here, Gretchen McCulloch reveals the fascinating reason that people struggle with sentences such as "B...
11 Syys 201413min
431 GG Words That Aren't Words
In this podcast, you get a Quick and Dirty Tip about where to put periods and commas relative to quotation marks, an excerpt from Ammon Shea's book "Bad English," and a tidbit about a 1921 poem called...
28 Elo 201412min
430 GG The Plural of Money. This Is Your Brain on Writing. Egregious
In this week's podcast, Grammar Girl discusses the plural of money, how to use "egregious," and talks with Ellen Hendriksen from The Savvy Psychologist podcast about the findings from an experiment do...
21 Elo 201413min
