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Grammar Girl: For Writers and Language Lovers.

Grammar Girl: For Writers and Language Lovers.

QuickAndDirtyTips.com · Mignon Fogarty, Inc.

1,055 episodesEN

Show overview

Grammar Girl: For Writers and Language Lovers. has been publishing since 2006, and across the 20 years since has built a catalogue of 1,055 episodes, alongside 5 trailers or bonus episodes. That works out to roughly 250 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.

Episodes typically run ten to twenty minutes — most land between 8 min and 17 min — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Education show.

The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed yesterday, with 71 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2025, with 103 episodes published. Published by Mignon Fogarty, Inc..

Episodes
1,055
Running
2006–2026 · 20y
Median length
13 min
Cadence
Weekly

From the publisher

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Aug 25, 202610 min

Sarah L. Kaufman on the shared rhythm of dance, critical writing, and finding better verbs

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What 'kith and kin' and 'beck and call' have in common

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Aug 13, 202620 min

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How comics are made, with Glenn Fleishman

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Why does the U.S. have so many regional accents?

Aug 4, 202610 min

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Jul 30, 202628 min

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'Writing for AI' and the flaws of AI detectors, with Sean Goedecke

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Jul 21, 20268 min

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Jul 16, 202612 min

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Jul 14, 202611 min

Saving Canadian lexicography, with John Chew

Jul 9, 202637 min

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Jul 7, 20269 min

Building a beloved resource for word lovers, with Doug Harper

Jul 2, 202627 min

How to answer the question 'What's your book about?'

Jun 30, 202610 min

Fossil words, eponyms, and a miscellany of weird facts, with Jess Zafarris and Shannon Miller

Jun 25, 202638 min

Why 'love' means 'zero' in tennis

Jun 23, 20268 min
Mignon Fogarty, Inc.