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In 1946, an engineer was working near a piece of equipment known as a magnetron which is part of…
Recently, Grammar Girl listener Mark J. Yevchak wrote in with an interesting question. He’d been watching the HBO miniseries “Generation…
The “mis-“ prefix and the “dis-“ prefix can both negate things in a lot of ways, and they have…
Articles Articles are short words that come before nouns. There are two types of articles: indirect articles and direct articles.…
A listener named Anne wrote in with this question: Have you written anything about the way some people pronounce short…
March 4 is National Grammar Day, so I have a special top-10 show to celebrate the occasion, and before you…
A few years ago, I was listening to the Range podcast made by two of my friends — Julia Ritchey…
In Southern California, an estimated 1.2 million people live within 500 feet of the freeway even though the California Environmental…
Every month or two I get a question like this one from Scott. He says he’s been fighting with…
Let’s say you just backed up your computer, and you get a message that says, “Your data is now safe.”…