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Grammar Girl: For Writers and Language Lovers.

Grammar Girl: For Writers and Language Lovers.

QuickAndDirtyTips.com · Mignon Fogarty, Inc.

1,068 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 1,068 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 2 days ago, with 84 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2025, with 103 episodes published. Published by Mignon Fogarty, Inc..

Episodes
1,068
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.

Why does 'Here comes he' sound so wrong?

Oct 13, 202610 min

Famous quotes we've been getting wrong, from Robert Frost to 'Don't mess with Texas,' with Eli Burnstein

Oct 8, 202645 min

Is it 'try and' or 'try to'? What does an epilogue do?

Oct 6, 202610 min

'Rizz,' 'lost in the sauce,' and Dictionary.com's newest words, with Steve Johnson

Oct 1, 202620 min

Why are ships called 'she'?

Sep 29, 202613 min

What's in a word? Mapping America's regional vocabulary and the Linguistic Atlas Project, with Allison Burkette

Sep 24, 202634 min

How often do you use 'the'? Meet Zipf's law

Sep 22, 20269 min

Min-maxxing, looksmaxxing, and Nixon-maxxing, with Roger Kreuz

Sep 17, 202617 min

Why do pirates say 'Arr'? Is it 'none is' or 'none are'?

Sep 15, 202612 min

Stray Russian words and made-up style rules, with Daniel Heuman and Chris Ryder

Sep 10, 202624 min

Who's a good boy? The science behind 'dog voice.' Is it 'bated breath' or 'baited breath'?

Sep 8, 202611 min

How we got from no spaces between words to the interrobang, with Florence Hazrat

Sep 3, 202627 min

Why do so many last names sound like jobs?

Sep 1, 20269 min

Explosions, chemistry, and dictionary 'spite,' with Kory Stamper

Aug 27, 202620 min

It's Greek to me: Why is the language of 'The Odyssey' shorthand for all that we don’t understand?

Aug 25, 202610 min

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

Aug 20, 202616 min

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

Aug 18, 202612 min

Word wagons and bobbasheelys: Life at DARE, with Joan Houston Hall

Aug 13, 202620 min

Why does 'shh' mean the same thing in so many languages, and what's 'broad' about daylight?

Aug 11, 202611 min

How comics are made, with Glenn Fleishman

Aug 6, 202626 min
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