Do you love books and history? If so, you'll love this week's Grammar Girl podcast because Peter Sokolowski tells us stories about the special Armed Services Editions of books that were created especially for the troops in WWII.
Listen while you get ready for gatherings this weekend, and you'll have great bits of trivia to share!
If you have training budget left as we come to the end of the fiscal year, check out my 90-minute, on-demand AP style webinar.
It's a great way to get up to speed on the basics of Associated Press style, including recent changes. Brush up by yourself or watch it with your whole team as a lunch-and-learn session!
Use the code MACMIL to get $90 off. Don't let that budget go to waste!
@grammargirl Haha, I literally just finished writing up a document for an upcoming event and put “don’t @ me” at the end of the last section (before showing results).
Then, what a weird coincidence to see this post at the top of my feed right after 🤔
We only smelled gas in the basement, but they wanted to inspect the whole house, and I swear there was a brief moment where I thought “My house is so messy, I’d rather die in a fire than have them traipse through my whole house!” I console myself that they’ve probably seen worse.
@grammargirl They’ve definitely seen worse — hoarders’ homes often catch fire or have fire scares, and the firemen see it all. Glad you got the all clear!
@grammargirl Glad you caught it and no harm was done! Imagine if you had been gone for a few days--yikes! Gas is dangerous stuff. Once when I was working in a cable vault with a blow torch, blue flames started burning around the conduit that was protruding from the ground. I called the gas company and they ended up evacuating the entire neighborhood!
@Fritinancy has an interesting piece this morning about the trend of referring to fashion items as "she," as in saying, "She's gorgeous!" about a purse.
We're the best!!! Grammar Girl just made the Writer's Digest list of 101 Best Websites for Writers! 🎉🎉🎉
We've been on the list before for the website, but this year is special because it's the first time we're on the list for the PODCAST. (Yes, the list of websites has a category for podcasts and YouTube channels.)
It means so much to me to know that people love and appreciate the show. Thank you to Writer's Digest and to all the people who listen! 1/2
Do you like word games? Love dictionaries and history? If so, join me tomorrow night (May 11) when I'll be playing word games with a bunch of fabulous language people to benefit the Noah Webster House & West Hartford Historical Society.
Have you ever wondered about the difference between stock and broth? A street and a boulevard? A maze and a labyrinth?
Well, Eli Burnstein has you covered. We talked about all these questions and more in the most recent Grammar Girl podcast on his "Dictionary of Fine Distinctions."
Listen while you do some cooking, drive home from work, or go for a walk!
I was sitting there with my mouth open after watching this Apple ad, and I can't remember something like that ever physically happening to me before. Just slow, building horror.
Tomorrow I'm interviewing big-time audiobook narrator Scott Brick, who narrates the "Dune" books, and Kevin J. Anderson who has written many "Dune" books.
Do you have any questions you'd like me to ask them (I'm especially interested in questions about the language of "Dune").
@grammargirl@EJGilbert Same here. When I read Dune I took Atreides to sound like a-TRY-deez (in the film it's a-TRY-deez — don't know about the audiobook). I also read Leto as Leeto, but I think in the film it's Layto (again, no idea about the audiobook). Did Herbert give any indication of how these names were to be pronounced?
Old English had some beautiful and poetic compound words such as "heaven candle" for "sun."
Hana Videen of @OEWordhord and I talked about those and more in our interview about her new book about words for animals in medieval times, "The Deorhord."
@grammargirl@OEWordhord As someone who speaks German, this episode was twice as fun, because some words are still used here, or at least known as old words.