I love learning more about the English language plus more! Thank you GG!

Great information.

I want to give you your flowers This podcast is amazingggggggg To gain so much knowledge in so little time is truly a blessing I appreciate everything you all do I recommend everyone to listen

Great research and Mignon memorable anecdotes revitalise! Good, inspiring, really limitless! Thank you

I’m sure I will have a grammatical error somewhere in this review, so please bear with me! I haven’t been listening to Grammar Girl for long, but I really do like the show! Although, where does this girl of grammar get her energy?! My dad, my brother, and I all share a podcast called One More Prime (For Transformer lovers and those who wish to learn the ways of us former lovers of robots who have deep backstories ooooo!) and we are thinking about wrapping up the show with the grand Transformers the Movie after making the show for about a year or two! HOW DOES THIS GIRL HAVE THE TIME AND ENERGY TO MAKE MILLIONS OF EPISODES ABOUT WHERE TO PUT A COMMA!!!????!!!! Anyways love the show keep up the great work! 😊

Thank you for the free content. I especially like learning all the things I forgot from my school days. The duration of these shows are great too, not too long or too short.

The Grammar Girl podcast is the best!!! I especially like the parts about how English has changed over time.

Sorry but there are just too many ads for me. Ads at the beginning, ads in the middle, ads at the end, it’s too much. I’ve been a listener pretty much since the beginning but I’m moving on. Also, sometimes the advice seems a little under researched and incorrect. For example, in a recent episode someone called in about using the word abs and I think the answer given was wrong. At best it was misleading and confusing, which is the exact opposite of the goal of this podcast! Anyway, for the most part, it’s an okay show but these little things are ruining it for me. Aloha!

May be good tips, don’t know, can’t get past the valley girl accent to listen to this.

Great content but I’m unfollowing because of the number of ads.

But I like my Mignon raw! I love the show however I have one small recommendation. Can you please change the name to Get ‘em Grammar Girl?! Holla!

As a word nerd, this podcast is up there as one of my favorite! I love the short, poppy, quick tips and advice and the level of research you do to find answers and help us get clarity! Thank you so much for all you do and are!

…but i don’t understand why the tips have to be dirty.

I say use that comma — as I like to call it, the “Harvard Comma” — at all times. To wit: I asked Moe, Larry, and Curly if they see our country’s flag as red, white, and blue, and answer “yes,” “no,” or “maybe.”

Love your segments, huge fan here! Could you do a segment on in medias res technique - how can listeners use this literary device in everyday conversations to pique others’ interests? Thanks!

I love everything about this podcast. Mignon is a terrific host, the topics are always interesting, it’s short, sweet, and gets to the point quickly. I try to listen to every single episode. Thank you for continuing to bring us important information, that would be found nowhere else.

In order to live a healthy and proper existence you will need: air, sun, water, food and proper grammar. Let Grammar Girl teach and entertain you - even if you are (cringe) a math person.

Every human on this planet needs this show.

Great podcast to kill time while I’m driving

I like your job. Keep it up!

I like the content presented in this podcast. The topics are explained well, but I am about to delete it, and stop listening. The presenter’s speech pattern of extending and trailing off the last part of each sentence causes me to grind my teeth, and they really are getting worn down.

As a professional songwriter & lyricist, I’m always interested in podcasts relating to words, writing, and grammar (although writing lyrics breaks many grammatical rules). Grammar Girl answers questions from listeners. I have emailed her several times and always received a friendly, personal, and helpful reply.

I love u grammar girl

I have listened to this podcast for ages. I always learn something, and there is a great mix of practical, technical and whimsical in her explanations and stories.

I love listening to Mignon. I learn a lot and I enjoy the sound of her voice and the way she speaks and enunciates words. I also like that she recently pronounced Mackinac correctly.

I’ve been following Mignon for years. I appreciate her clear enunciation and varied modulation of her voice, and the thing I like most is that she's the first to call mea culpa on herself, then follows up with the correction. The English language is one of the most difficult to master. It demands constant study. Thank you, Mignon, for being a stable host of this sorely needed podcast.

I like the information and the length. However, the host’s reading voice is exhausting. It doesn’t sound natural and is difficult to listen to.

yes!

I cant create a new review? This is annoying. So let me prefix my old review, lets see if it works. You may remember me as the Air Force guy who was plagued by catching accents as if they were a cold or flu. Just being exposed to an accent would make me speak in it. So here is a non related question for you. Maybe you previously spoke on this. “What is the most technically correct language?”. Let me give an example of one that isn’t extremely technical, but I also only learned it by trying to teach myself. This non technical language is Korean. While I was stationed in Korea, I wanted to take every Korean language class I could get. Alas, we were too busy, so I attempted to teach myself from an English/Korean dictionary. The only thing I managed to do was give myself a first grade reading level (at most) and can read and write in Hangul (korean alphabet). One of the language specific things I did learn from a few of my local friends (and yes, I did pick up their accents 🤪). When speaking korean, and when you are speaking to someone, (nouns?) are assumed. I discovered there is an awful lot of assumptions being made. For the life of me I cant remember a good example, but there was a lot of assumptions going on. So what I’m asking is this, which one is the most exact? Where nothing is left to assumption, but facts are paramount. (i.e. if I ask you about your podcast, i would be assuming the podcast that this review is about. VS when I soeak about your podcast, I would use its name, not assuming you only had this podcast. “I love your Grammar Girl podcast!” In Korean it would be “Love Podcast”, the ‘I’ and ‘your’ and ‘grammar girl’ all being assumed. Full disclosure, my wife is Korean, and she has been a naturalized citizen fo well over 30 years. But her English is very hard to understand, and I am acting translator all of the time 🧐🤓😎 Your podcast is the only non-tech podcast I listen to. I stumbled upon it completely by accident while searching through I.T. related podcasts. I'm glad I found it. I hope to improve my English skills in both speaking and writing, I'm horrible. Especially horrible for being born and raised here (I know, should say reared here, but I find that too pretentious). I have a question for you. Is there a term for this ability I have? Or maybe it's a condition, or a malady? When I'm exposed to foreign accents I pick up that accent very quickly and begin speaking in it, without knowing I'm doing it. For instance, I'm retired US Air Force. I was stationed at RAF Lakenheath, England, in the 1990's. While there, three other technicians and I went TDY to RAF Lossiemouth, Scotland to repair one of our F-111's that made an emergency landing there. While sitting in our hotel restaurant, three locals came to our table and asked if they could sit with the 'Yanks' they 'heard was in town'. We had a great dinner with them and spoke on the many differences between the U.S. and Scotland. My co-workers kept giving me evil looks. Finally one of them grabbed me by the arm, and pulled me close and whispered, "STOP IT! You're going to piss them off!" I had no idea what he was talking about. One of my co-workers spoke up and apologized to our guests. He said, "Sorry, we don't know why he keeps doing that." "Doing what?" One of them asked. "Faking your accent, of course." All three of the local guys started laughing really hard. "We thought he was a local boy! We din na know he was a Yank too!" Similar episodes took place in Turkey, Spain, and Korea. I get mistaken for a local wherever I go. I think it has to do with growing up in San Francisco as a kid. I lived there until I was 13 yrs old. I had friends from more cultures and backgrounds than I can count. You might say we lived in the immigrant district (My family immigrated there from Florida).

Love it. Thanks

I’d love to listen to the show but men that voice, and the tone!! Just NO!!!!

This show is entertaining for lovers of the written English language. There is lots of useful information about style guides (Chicago vs AP, etc.) and evolving practices in journalism. I enjoy the short snippets on familects, words invented within a family group. A sweet example is “huggle,” meaning a combined hug and snuggle time.

Migon Seriously, You had to drag politics into this podacast??

Is it Valley Girl? Not sure what it is but it is annoying to listen to when the end of every sentence is two notes down from the previous. And so scripted. Loosen it up and maybe speak a bit faster? I can’t usually get through a full episode, much as I want to.

I really like this podcast. The host has a great voice, but I think she has a habit of depressing the end of her sentences. If she could deliver sentences without adding flair to the end, it would definitely elevate the experience... The content is so enjoyable, and her voice is actually nice, but going down an octave at the tail of every sentence is a lot. I really need the help with my grammar, so I’m gonna try really hard to keep listening!

Love the content, but the repetitive undulations of the host’s voice make you seasick. Relax lady! Read less and just talk.

Always a treat to listen to!

Helped me for act prep LOVE GRAMMAR GIRL!!

Probably great info, but her cadence is horrible.

her speaking voice & delivery is so robotic and odd, I can't listen to it

Face it...American are just not that bright.

Hi, GG, listening to episode 711, in the Blinkist advert, i was confused by the arrangement of words. Please comment on something you said(read?). You said you were "...supposed to read a biography of someone who changed the world this week." I listened, and wondered, as the current news doesn't offer anyone who really changes he world, such as world leaders, celebrities. I heard you say that whoever changed the world did so this week. Your intent, i suppose, is you read the biography this week. I trust you and question myself. Please clarify.

I’m a grammar geek. Love these short, sweet episodes. I love the mix of linguistics and history. I’ve learned so much as I listen to this podcast en route to work (30-minute commute).

My all-time favorite podcast because I was a Grammar Geek growing up, and I still probably am. It’s so refreshing to listen to Mignon talk about the English language, keep me in line, expand my horizons, and make me laugh. Especially in this day and age (should that include hyphens?), when messaging and social media feel like they’re destroying our ability to write. I’m playing catch-up by listening here in Atlanta nonstop both at the gym and while driving until I’ve gotten through 2017 and 2018. Thanks for the great podcast. I absolutely love the familect stories. But who exactly are Aardvark and Squiggly? Is this a cultural reference I’m not aware of? Or just names you like to use in examples?

Binge-listening to grammar girl has become a daily habit. It’s very informational and educational. I love the bits about word origins and familex (sic), but the parts about correct word usage and other grammar rules are really educational. English is my second language, so writing is a little difficult but listening to grammar girl daily has helped me a lot.

What in the world is black American English? The English that you refer to has more to do with socioeconomic status and education than it does with race. If I listen to white poor and uneducated people speak English and then decide that is white American English it would be just as ridiculous.

Very well done

Thank you.

I used to like listening, and I was able to ignore the obvious left-leaning, liberal political views expressed in a few episodes. But when you have such an obvious fake scientist as "Bill Nye", who has abosolutely zero credentials in real science and call it a science episode (ep: 691, 'Science Rules with Bill Nye'), I have to draw the line. Unsubscribe, and I won't be back.

These shows not only educational, they are downright entertaining. There is always some tidbit that I walk away with. I highly recommend subscribing to this.