Mignon Fogarty

Mignon Fogarty

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Grammar Girl. Podcaster. New York Times bestselling author. Quick and Dirty Tips founder. Bad skier. she/her #AmWriting #AmEditing

When you say or write a word too many times, it can stop even looking like a word. It's a process called "semantic satiation," and it's fascinating. Listen today!

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10:01 AM - Jun 21, 2023

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If you've dreamed of being a fiction editor, you'll love my interview this week with Amy Schneider, the author of a fabulous new book called "Chicago Guide to Copy Editing Fiction." We talked about all the things that make fiction editing special.

https://pod.link/173429229

12:30 PM - Jun 14, 2023

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Our word nerd minds were blown while learning about the base-20 counting system that gives us the word "score."

Here's a teaser, and if you'd like to learn even more fascinating facts about the ✨vigesimal✨ counting system, check out the whole episode (Grammar Girl 929)

11:30 AM - May 26, 2023

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This week, we have secrets from the Wordle word list, insights into why English is the best language for Wordle, and why five-letter words are actually harder to guess than longer words.

Check out the interview with linguist Lynne Murphy that got me playing Wordle again!

Links in the comments.

09:49 AM - May 17, 2023

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You'll have to take care of the food and drinks, but in this week's Grammar Girl podcast, we have tasty tidbits of knowledge you can bring to your Cinco de Mayo parties! Impress your friends with five fun facts about Spanish.

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02:49 PM - May 03, 2023

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Have you ever been confused or frustrated by the phrase "begs the question"?

In this week's podcast, I tackle how to handle this useful but frustrating phrase. Plus, Brenda Thomas looks at the differences between online, distance, remote, and correspondence learning.

Links in the first comment.

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12:46 PM - Apr 27, 2023

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People don't say "um" because they're nervous.

Instead, one reason to say "um" is to signal to listeners that you want to keep talking. The amazing thing is that we usually don't say "um" when we're talking to a computer, like Siri.

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11:02 AM - Apr 21, 2023

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It's time! You can now listen to my interview with Valerie Fridland and learn what you get wrong about "uh" and "um," the fascinating history of the word "dude," and more.

Her new book, "Like, Literally, Dude," is chock full of fascinating tidbits you're going to love.

Links in the first comment.

Headshots of Mignon and Valerie side by side behind microphones with a burst in the middle that reads "Like, Literally, Dude."

02:02 PM - Apr 18, 2023

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Happy launch day to Valerie Fridland. Her new book, "Like, Literally, Dude," made me say, "Wow!" multiple times.

Get ready to listen to Valerie talk about my favorite parts of the book on tomorrow's Grammar Girl podcast.

Mignon in front of her bookcase holding up the book "Like, Literally, Dude." The cover is yellow with a disembodied mouth yelling the cover words in a loose script style typeface.

05:17 PM - Apr 17, 2023

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"America's Writing Teacher," Roy Peter Clark, joined me for a fabulous interview this week.

If you'd like to hear the five things he says every writer wants to learn, check out the show.

Podcast: https://pod.link/173429229
YouTube: https://youtu.be/RSGle1cgS...

I've worked for the ... I've done workshops, for the World Bank, for Disney, for Microsoft, for the United Nations, and for a federal prison that was teaching writing to a class of five prisoners.
Everybody wants to learn the same four or five things.
They wanna learn how to make hard facts easier reading.
They want to learn how to make complicated things interesting enough so that readers will pay attention.
They want to learn how to blend their, how to write in an authentic voice that is in harmony with the collective voice of the institution that they belong to.
They want to know what it means to tell stories in the public interest.
And they wanna understand something that I think has become very important in the last two years, is that what's their appropriate distance from neutrality.

11:28 AM - Apr 14, 2023

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Listen to the Grammar Girl podcast this weekend while you garden, cook, or walk the dog!

This week, we're talking about the strange killer bunnies that frequently appear in medieval manuscripts and why it sounds weird to say "a dozen OF eggs."

Links in the first comment.

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11:18 AM - Apr 07, 2023

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In this week's podcast, I dug in to the old saying "my sufficiency has been suffonsified." Once you start looking, it's everywhere!

READ: https://grammar-girl.simpl...

LISTEN: https://pod.link/173429229...

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12:30 PM - Mar 28, 2023

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My new LinkedIn Learning "Writing Email" course is free for a limited time!

My email messages got better as I was writing the course, and yours will too. Be the person other people like to see in their inbox!

http://bit.ly/3FeYpRz

A screenshot from the course: Mignon in front of her bookcase.

10:14 AM - Mar 10, 2023

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LitReactor recommended my book "The Grammar Devotional" in its list of "9 Grammar Books You’ll Actually Enjoy Reading." Woohoo!

https://litreactor.com/col...

04:20 PM - Mar 07, 2023

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It's often hard to define "irony," but I think this qualifies!

Too much snow cancels state ski racing championships
The snowstorms over the past several days had the added effect of causing the cancelation of the high school state ski racing championships.

02:24 PM - Mar 03, 2023

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I've known Grant Faulkner for years, but mostly through #NaNoWriMo .

This week, I talked to him about his 100-word stories and new book, "The Art of Brevity."

I've already heard from a listener who wrote a 100-word story for the first time after listening to the show!

https://pod.link/17342

11:53 AM - Feb 22, 2023

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Do you have questions for Grant Faulkner, author of the new book "The Art of Brevity" and director of National Novel Writing Month (#NaNoWriMo)?

I'm interviewing him tomorrow for an upcoming episode of the Grammar Girl podcast.

Let me know in the comments!

The book "The Art of Brevity" lying on a red blanket with shadow stripes across the whole scene.

11:28 AM - Feb 15, 2023

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I love this part of the Vice story about books entering the public domain.

It feels like it should be a meme: #ThePublicDomainIsNotAPlace

The public domain is not a place.

10:35 AM - Feb 11, 2023

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