Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing

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1. Scissors, Jeans, and Other Nouns That Are Always Plural. Flat Adverbs. Boteep.

   Pubblicato: 28/04/2022
2. If earth looks like a blue marble, why is Earth Day associated with the color green? Also, 'funnest.'

   Pubblicato: 21/04/2022
3. You Know. Doppelganger. Trademarks. Funnily. Chicken Milk.

   Pubblicato: 14/04/2022
4. I Cannot Tell a Lie (but I Can Mislead! And Sometimes People Do It With Percentages.

   Pubblicato: 08/04/2022
5. How Aphasia Causes Difficulty Speaking. Chairdrobe.

   Pubblicato: 31/03/2022
6. Why Tired People Talk About Being 'Out of Spoons.' Why Nouns Are More Complicated Than You May Think.

   Pubblicato: 24/03/2022
7. Barracking, Sheilas and Shouts: How the Irish Influenced Australian English

   Pubblicato: 17/03/2022
8. The Oxford Comma. And Should You Start a Sentence with 'And'?

   Pubblicato: 10/03/2022
9. Is 'Materiel' Just a Fancy Pronunciation of 'Material'? Are Binomials the Same Across Languages?

   Pubblicato: 03/03/2022
10. Why Do We Cringe at 'Pepper and Salt'? Why 'Square' Is Uncool. Quickquish.

    Pubblicato: 24/02/2022
11. What's Square About a Square Meal? How to Use Parentheses, Brackets, and Braces. Guck.

    Pubblicato: 17/02/2022
12. Are People Using 'Commiserate' Wrong? The Origin of (the Word) 'Influenza.' Hersband.

    Pubblicato: 10/02/2022
13. Do You Call In, Out, or Off Sick? How Kids Learn Language. Hexaboobiated.

    Pubblicato: 04/02/2022
14. Tips for Learning a New Language: The Fluent Show

    Pubblicato: 27/01/2022
15. Why 'Tiny' Sounds Smaller Than 'Huge.' Nixing the Horrid 'Of.' Kokopelli.

    Pubblicato: 20/01/2022
16. 'Strollout,' 'Insurrection,' 'Yassify,' and Other Words of the Year for 2021

    Pubblicato: 13/01/2022
17. Cardsharp. The Old-New Singular 'They.' Grignug.

    Pubblicato: 06/01/2022
18. Questions, Questions, So Many Questions!

    Pubblicato: 30/12/2021
19. Is "Milk and Cookies" One Thing or Two? A New Language Term: The Santaback. Shoedabakers.

    Pubblicato: 24/12/2021
20. How Lori Rader-Day Wrote a Historical Novel About War Evacuees in Agatha Christie's Vacation Home

    Pubblicato: 16/12/2021