Grammar Minute

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Grammar Minute

by Lauren Smyth

Saving the English language 60 seconds at a time.

100 episodes

EN language

All Episodes

1

Waiting for vs. Waiting on

1:01 Mar 12, 2026

2

Grammar Hall of Shame - Double Negatives

1:01 Mar 10, 2026

3

Weird English Words

1:01 Mar 5, 2026

4

What Time Should You Show Up For "Supper"?

1:01 Mar 3, 2026

5

Nobody Knows What "Biweekly" Means

1:01 Feb 26, 2026

6

Hoot Owls, Humans, and Who/Whom

1:00 Feb 24, 2026

7

What's So Bad About Dangling Prepositions?

1:01 Feb 19, 2026

8

The Inverted Pyramid

1:00 Feb 17, 2026

9

How to Pluralize "Yes"

1:01 Feb 12, 2026

10

Yes, We Can Tell You Used AI

1:02 Feb 10, 2026

11

You "Really" Don't Need This Word

1:01 Feb 5, 2026

12

We're Back ... With More Enormities

1:00 Feb 3, 2026

13

How to Use AI the Right Way

1:01 Nov 28, 2025

14

It's Obvious You Used AI

1:01 Nov 26, 2025

15

It "Costed" Less

1:01 Nov 24, 2025

16

A Brief Note on Annotating

1:01 Nov 21, 2025

17

"Between" vs "Among"

0:58 Nov 19, 2025

18

Why I'm Not an "Alumni"

1:01 Nov 18, 2025

19

Make New Cliches

1:00 Nov 7, 2025

20

What Counts as Jargon?

1:01 Nov 5, 2025

21

The Meaningless Word "Meaningful"

1:00 Nov 3, 2025

22

When You Shouldn't Quote

1:01 Oct 31, 2025

23

Don't Cite Encyclopedias

1:00 Oct 29, 2025

24

And Now, Conjunctions

1:01 Oct 27, 2025

25

It's Never "Alot"

1:01 Oct 24, 2025

26

Eight Parts of Speech in Sixty Seconds

1:00 Oct 22, 2025

27

Bona-Fide Good Grammar

1:01 Oct 20, 2025

28

My Parents, Ayn Rand and God

1:00 Oct 17, 2025

29

Never Start a Sentence with a Number

1:01 Oct 15, 2025

30

Is "Percent" Singular or Plural?

1:01 Oct 13, 2025

31

Driver License or Driver's License?

1:01 Oct 10, 2025

32

Phonics vs. "Whole Word"

1:01 Oct 8, 2025

33

In Defense of Bullet Points

1:01 Oct 6, 2025

34

It's Very Bad to Use the Word "Very"

1:01 Oct 3, 2025

35

"Further" vs "Farther"

1:01 Oct 1, 2025

36

Antidisestablishmentarianism (Don't Use Long Words)

1:01 Sep 29, 2025

37

Grammar Errors in Song Lyrics

1:01 Sep 26, 2025

38

How Long Is Too Long?

1:01 Sep 24, 2025

39

The Longest Word in the English Language

1:00 Sep 22, 2025

40

Why Good Reading Makes Good Writing

1:01 Sep 19, 2025

41

Why Good Typing Makes Good Grammar

1:01 Sep 17, 2025

42

How to Differentiate Character Voices

1:01 Sep 15, 2025

43

Do You Really Need That Hyphen?

1:01 Sep 12, 2025

44

What Is an En Dash?

1:01 Sep 10, 2025

45

What Is an Em Dash?

1:01 Sep 8, 2025

46

Can Inanimate Nouns Be Possessive?

1:01 Sep 5, 2025

47

The History of the Asterisk

1:00 Sep 3, 2025

48

When to Capitalize "Mom" and "Dad"

1:01 Sep 1, 2025

49

"U.S." vs. "US"

1:01 Aug 28, 2025

50

Why Good Writers Need Editors

1:01 Aug 26, 2025

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