Browsing: Education
The 75th anniversary of D-Day is coming up in just a few months and that made me think about…
I’ve been interviewing authors for the podcast lately, and one question we always ask is what words give them…
In 2017, I asked people on Twitter what it’s called when a family has words only they understand, and some…
Meteorologists talk not only about what the temperature will be outside, but also what that temperature “feels like.” Why are…
The Super Bowl is right around the corner. So with that in mind, today we’re going to talk about “punting.”…
Today, we turn to run-on sentences. I bet a lot of you think that run-on sentences are just really long…
I like myriad 10,000 Maniacs songs—”These Are Days,” “Candy Everybody Wants,” “Few and Far Between,” and probably more that I…
Today we’re talking about the asterisk: how you use it and how it differs from other footnote symbols. What Is…
A listener named Manasi says she has been avoiding the words “purposely” and “purposefully” because she isn’t sure of the…
Today’s topic is how to use colons. One of my favorite old grammar books, titled “Punctuate It Right,” has a wonderful name…