I may just put Wiefwolf in one of my "Haunting Season" poems!

"Grammar Girl" title is friendly and catchy sounding.

In Irish, bear is math-ghamhainn. Roughly translates as "dog-like bull". Pronounced like: mah gown. And yes, Irish spelling diverges a lot from English. There's no letters v or w or x or y and these are replaced by other conventions.

I don't understand the recommendation to use singular "they" when you don't know a person's preferred pronouns. I'm not a big fan of singular "they" in general, but I'm aware that there's a long history of using singular "they" when you don't know if the person being referred to is male or female, and I use it that way myself. But I'm not aware of any history, other than limited cases in the past few years, of using singular "they" when you *do* know the person's sex, but you don't know the person's preferred pronouns. To me, this recommendation seems to be ideologically driven, rather than a guideline based on standard accepted usage. I'm aware of at least one person who uses "they" this way, namely maths KZbinr Matt Parker. In his videos, he refers to everyone as "they," even historical figures whose sex is clearly known. But that usage sounds jarring to me, because I don't hear anyone else doing that. (In fact, I'm not sure if he does this because he's all-in on gender ideology, or because he's subtly poking fun at it.) On a different topic, Karen is a beautiful name. I hate the way that it has become a derogatory term in our culture. I intentionally never use "Karen" in the modern derogatory sense, out of respect for women named Karen.

Savage, out of the woods? Barbarian, a rude savage?

Wow! You and Karen were wonderful. I enjoyed the podcast.

Wow, I am so impressed that you two were able to have a conversation about this subject without using the words "woke" or "politically correct." 😄

For my whole life, I've never understood what "ez" meant I saw it commented online. To me it reads "eh-zed" or "ee-zed". I never clocked on that it was pronounced like "easy". From what I've gathered it was so Americans could further distance themselves from Britain, seen as every other English speaking country pronounces it "zed" alongside spelling words like "colour" and "aluminium" correctly. It really doesn't make much logical sense, but I can see how it would be nice to have some uniqueness whilst still using another country's language.

In Arabic writing, 0 _(khamsa)_ is equal to 5. A zero in Arabic writing is a point . _(zeffir)_

Bullsheedo

Thanks

"So how many of you are drug users?" 😂😂😂

This guy speaks beautifully , loved listening to him!❤️

She wrong we going swimming tomorrow 😅😂

I and so happy to see that you are sharing how to be kind, without simultaneously showing hate or personal offense towards other people. You have an understanding and compassionate heart!! The driving story is so relatable. Going through a bad time can make driving more difficult. After our family's house fire, I felt like I couldn't think very well when I drove.

The red wine was slightly sardonic but not syndical.

ZEE (chiefly US, Newfoundland, Philippines, increasingly Canada) ZED (UK, Ireland, variable Canada , Australia, New Zealand, South Africa) IZZARD (Obsolete Scotland, and archaically in England and Ireland, Hong Kong, South Asia) UZZARD (dialectal, archaic) In Canada in the early 2000s, according to many surveys there were, 70% said "zed", while 30% said "zee", Most of them came from Newfoundland. In recent years the form "zee" in Canada is becoming increasingly popular more common among younger people given the proximity to the United States and Alaska and the influence of the Internet and American television. "Zed" is more common among older people in Canada.

Capitalisation and punctuation are not grammar

The thing about written grammar rules to me is that I think I have some sort of mild, undiagnosed dyslexia, and the grammar rules really help me to better understand the what’s been written. When things are even slightly off, my focus shifts to trying to understand or even mentally correct the grammar, rather than the intuitive understanding of the text as it is intended. I recognize this is my own issue, but it also really makes me appreciate when grammar rules are followed, especially in formal or published text.

A possible topic for a future episode: When talking about where someone placed in a competition or a poll, is it better to say "came first" or "came in first"? In this episode, I noticed Mignon saying "'yeah nah' came second" (in a poll of favorite Aussie slang expressions). My son uses this "came second" phrasing too, and I think he picked it up from a particular British gaming KZbinr who uses that phrasing. But I say "came in first" or "came in second". For example, "Did you see the results of the Aussie slang poll? 'Yeah nah' came in second." I'm a Gen-X American, and this way of saying it sounds right to me. I wonder if the other way (omitting "in") is more prevalent among younger people, or maybe it's more of a British phrasing, or maybe it's regional within the US.

i've been completely blind for almost 7 years now, and as somebody that others say I speak English well for some reason, I always wondered about this when I was growing up; I moved a lot as a child and did not have any friends so I read a lot of books and for these unspoken rules, [they] make sense now that I think about them, but for me I basically concluded the proximity of the adjective (maybe even if more than one adverb) to the word, emphasizing the word (the same if the adjectives or adverbs come after the word,) insulating it for more definitive description followed by what sounds better and indirectly what looks better; I wouldn't say that any one way sounds wrong or awkward, maybe a little bit awkward, but that only occurs after one processes in his or her head - probably why I learned that way, like many others ... yeah no, ignore my grammatical/syntactic splicing, this is how I've adopted typing Winn I became blind, lol,

Congrats Mignon! Keep up the great work.

It was very good ❤

Hi Mignon! Congratulations on your 1,000 episodes! I’ve been listening to your podcast for at least 10 years now. When I first started, I was just beginning to learn English, and nowadays I’m an English teacher in Brazil. Your podcast has been with me all these years. Thanks for that, and I hope you can make a thousand more!

Happy 1000th birthday! You don't look a day over 29. :)

There were so many invasions into the British Isles, that English can be considered a chicken soup of languages…especially old Norse and French.

Thank you! Always so interesting. Also, I couldn’t resist but to order a copy of Dangerous Crooked Scoundrels: Insulting the President, from Washington to Trump. Sounds hilarious and insightful. Can’t wait for it to arrive this weekend 😃

Congratulations on 1,000 episodes! I think I've probably heard at least 400 of them. I look forward to 1,000 more. 🙂

Congrats 🎉👏 You look pretty and fresh, too. ❤ Thank you!

happy 1K! M 🥳

Congratulations for the 1000th episode! You beat SGU by few episodes. Been listening to both for years now.

Nice I like it

Write up, write down, write off, chop up, chop down, look up, look out, drop out, drop off, drop in . . . phrasal verbs seem natural to native English speakers, but they must be a nightmare for people who learn English as a second language.

✨Interesting😊

I think I might need grammar therapy because I'm a native speaker who hadn't realized for most of my life that using "whom" correctly might be among the few things in standard English that raises eyebrows/draws grammatical attention to itself. I've always thought it was just normal standard English, much like your examples of singular/plural, the subjunctive mood, and asking "Where's Squiggly" instead of "Where's Squiggly at?" Now that I know, though, I've become very self-conscious about it and have been making an effort to avoid its usage, but it's so awkward doing grammatical calculus to avoid it 😢What should I do? I know you talked about this in the video a little bit, but my problem as a native speaker is not just that it's a change I don't want to make, but that it's actually uncomfortable for me to not use it. Grammatical calculus is awkward, and replacing it with "who" all the time would just feel weird and wrong to me. If I do try to make this change (as I think you're arguing for), to what extent? Should I stop using it entirely in everyday settings, or just in certain types of grammatical structures?

Why are u off on Twitter?

On not giving a character three names: Superman is Clark Kent is Kal-El. Fans have managed to keep those in mind for, what, over 75 years.

Listening to the discussion of how The Voice sounds, I’m reminded of Meryl Streep explaining how she decided to do Miranda Priestly’s voice in The Devil Wears Prada. Very similarly to the emphasis here, Streep had observed that truly powerful people don’t have to raise their voice; in fact, Miranda speaks very softly, and makes many of her important points almost in a whisper. She never yells. Fascinating parallel.

The woo hoo theme is fun!

Should go with the standard spelling. English is replete with words that are pronounced differently in different parts of the country and world. Each dialect has a standard spelling for words (eg. color vs. colour). There’s no reason to change the spelling of a word due to different accents.

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Exactly the lesson I needed! Still useful after thirteen years.

It has to do with whether you emphasize the EL part of the word or not. Cancel, emphasis on CAN, the word becomes canceled. In compel, the emphasis is on the EL, the word becomes compelled. Travel, traveled. Repel, emphasis is on EL, repelled. Rebel (as a verb) becomes Rebelled.

Great interview! A few thoughts: - It's my understanding that modern African-American English was influenced by southern European-American English, which in turn was influenced by English dialects from specific areas of Great Britain. If that's correct, it would be interesting to hear more about those connections, and about any similarities among English usage in those three cultures today. - The first time I ever saw "chitterlings" in a grocery store, I wondered what in the world was this strange food that I had never heard of. Finally I realized that "chitterlings" was the more formal spelling of "chit'lins," which of course I had heard of (though I'm still not quite sure what they are). - "What had happened was..." and "What happened was..." both sound correct to me. However, they both sound like a roundabout way of saying something (kind of like a sentence written in passive voice).

Pronunciation or pronounciation

Let's eat, Grandma. (Punctuation saves lives!)

Very interesting.

Loving this interview! Super interesting and informative. I’m a copy editor listening in Canada with roots in Nova Scotia and in Washington State. Lastly: 🎶Drop the needle!🎶😉🎉❤️

Is it actually a rule?

Half of a byte is a nibble, amd while i get why it just sounds so silly