Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing Quick and Dirty Tips

Mignon Fogarty obviously enjoys linguistics and her style helps to share that enthusiasm with her listeners. I’ve listened in the car for a few years and love this podcast. I’m just a word junkie, not a linguist or professional writer, and find it to be just as thorough as needed for any given topic with examples that make everything clear. It’s the perfect length: never so condensed that I’m left scratching my head trying to remember grammar terms from high school English and never so long that new episodes back up in the feed until I find the elusive time to really concentrate and catch up.

Plus it’s a welcome, non-political break from the dozen other podcasts in my feed chronicling the collapse of our democracy!

As the English language (and grammar) are going downhill and fast, this podcast sheds light on grammar, key words, phrases, meaning of words, application and usage to understand and communicate better.
The content is niche but high quality and very original. Give the Grammar Girl a WELL deserved listen

Grammar often gets a bad rap of being a dry and boring subject. Mignon keeps it interesting and educational in a reasonable amount of time to hold your attention.

I had never known that some languages have different words for different shades of blue. In North Carolina many of us regurly use two different words for when referring to certain shades of blue - Carolina Blue or Duke Blue.