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THE QUICK AND DIRTY The official name is “Veterans Day,” but “Veterans’ Day” is also grammatically correct. In the United…
Today’s topic is “although” versus “while.” I often have to tell people that their pet peeves aren’t actually hard-and-fast grammar…
“Whoa” can mean “stop,” like in this Keanu Reeves clip from “Sweet November,” or it can mean “wow,” like he…
Out of pocket meaning – is there just one? In July 2015, a listener named Barb Mindel posted a question…
In the movie “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure,” the slacker protagonists Bill and Ted offer this advice to the world:…
The Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden, just announced that Kamala Harris is his pick for vice president, and she is…
One of our listeners recently wrote in, wondering about the proper way to describe quantities. She said her sixth-grade English…
A listener recently wrote in to ask about the word “bougie.” He’d heard it being used to mean something elevated…
Last week, our editor at Quick and Dirty Tips had a question about hyphens as she was working on a…
Today, we’re going to start with rules but go heavy on history at the end because what I thought would…