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Today, Neal Whitman will help us understand why the word “troops” can refer to the number of individuals or groups.…
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Recently, readers wrote in to question why I capitalized “the” as part of the newspaper name in the sentence “Yesterday…
“Cipher” comes from an Arabic word that means “zero, empty, or nothing.” The Arabic numerals (1, 2, 3, and so…
A listener named Matt wants to know why some speakers of American English pronounce the word “wash” as “warsh.” This…
Today’s topic is “lay” versus “lie.” How to Remember the Difference Between ‘Lay’ and ‘Lie’ Here are four ways to…
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…