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Whatever.’", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2023/06/which-2.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=which-2", "published_at": "2023-06-26T12:10:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c534-d5a4-70bd-949a-bcf52aef1b94", "title": "Was ‘it don’t’ once good English?", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2023/06/dont.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dont", "published_at": "2023-06-19T12:10:45+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c534-d5a4-70bd-949a-bcf52b19174f", "title": "When usage goes out the window*", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2023/06/defenestrate.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=defenestrate", "published_at": "2023-06-12T12:10:38+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c534-d5a4-70bd-949a-bcf52bdc9801", "title": "A riot in the garden", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2023/06/riot.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=riot", "published_at": "2023-06-05T12:10:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c534-d5a4-70bd-949a-bcf52c1f474d", "title": "What is ‘which’ doing here?", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2023/05/which.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=which", "published_at": "2023-05-29T12:10:39+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c534-d5a4-70bd-949a-bcf52ce74692", "title": "You’re doing what?", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2023/05/wh-words.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wh-words", "published_at": "2023-05-22T12:10:56+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c534-d5a4-70bd-949a-bcf52d1a40b7", "title": "Why ‘one’ sounds like ‘won’", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2023/05/one-won.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=one-won", "published_at": "2023-05-15T12:10:10+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c534-d5a4-70bd-949a-bcf52df3d29b", "title": "‘Ask, and it shall be given you’", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2023/05/given-you.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=given-you", "published_at": "2023-05-08T12:10:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c534-d5a4-70bd-949a-bcf52e2a1d7f", "title": "Can a chatbot hallucinate?", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2023/05/hallucinate.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hallucinate", "published_at": "2023-05-01T12:10:49+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c534-d5a4-70bd-949a-bcf52e6a9d72", "title": "‘Time to get up, you lot!’", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2023/04/you-lot.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=you-lot", "published_at": "2023-04-24T12:10:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c534-d5a4-70bd-949a-bcf52f48a1dc", "title": "Why we rely on a ‘go-to’", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2023/04/go-to.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=go-to", "published_at": "2023-04-17T12:10:39+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c534-d5a4-70bd-949a-bcf5302b5d32", "title": "Not to mention Paul", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2023/04/not-to-mention.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=not-to-mention", "published_at": "2023-04-10T12:10:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c534-d5a4-70bd-949a-bcf53034d9bd", "title": "The laundry list, itemized", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2023/04/laundry-list.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=laundry-list", "published_at": "2023-04-03T12:10:46+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c534-d5a4-70bd-949a-bcf530405356", "title": "Let’s liven things up", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2023/03/enliven-liven-liven-up.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=enliven-liven-liven-up", "published_at": "2023-03-27T12:10:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c534-d5a4-70bd-949a-bcf53134b57a", "title": "Did ‘y’all’ originate in England?", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2023/03/you-all.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=you-all", "published_at": "2023-03-20T12:10:42+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c534-d5a4-70bd-949a-bcf531c81748", "title": "Good, best, or well wishes?", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2023/03/good-best-well-wishes.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=good-best-well-wishes", "published_at": "2023-03-13T12:20:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53f-0818-713d-b80f-bd003d6180bf", "title": "I’m a riddle: Am I ridiculous?", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2023/03/ridiculous-riddle.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ridiculous-riddle", "published_at": "2023-03-06T13:10:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53f-0818-713d-b80f-bd003deb9816", "title": "On jurors and panels", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2023/02/panels-jurors.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=panels-jurors", "published_at": "2023-02-27T13:10:39+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53f-0818-713d-b80f-bd003e030770", "title": "Why the ‘w’ is called a ‘double u’", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2023/02/double-u-2.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=double-u-2", "published_at": "2023-02-20T13:10:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53f-0818-713d-b80f-bd003eb878b6", "title": "Why Old English looks so weird", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2023/02/old-english.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=old-english", "published_at": "2023-02-13T13:10:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53f-0818-713d-b80f-bd003f37873d", "title": "Does a plan ‘gel’ or ‘jell’?", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2023/02/gel-jell.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gel-jell", "published_at": "2023-02-06T13:10:17+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53f-0818-713d-b80f-bd003f5822e6", "title": "Better half (the whole story)", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2023/01/better-half.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=better-half", "published_at": "2023-01-30T13:10:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53f-0818-713d-b80f-bd00402d0103", "title": "‘Shot for a Jerry spy’", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2023/01/shot-for-a-jerry-spy.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=shot-for-a-jerry-spy", "published_at": "2023-01-23T13:10:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53f-0818-713d-b80f-bd004086b0a1", "title": "Are you stumped?", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2023/01/stump.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=stump", "published_at": "2023-01-16T13:10:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53f-0818-713d-b80f-bd0040b323db", "title": "Whenever Harry met Sally", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2023/01/whenever.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=whenever", "published_at": "2023-01-09T13:10:50+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53f-0818-713d-b80f-bd004138ea41", "title": "What’s up, man?", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2023/01/man-2.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=man-2", "published_at": "2023-01-02T13:10:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53f-0818-713d-b80f-bd0041f80ca2", "title": "The ‘it’ in ‘lording it over’", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2022/12/lord-it-over.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lord-it-over", "published_at": "2022-12-26T13:10:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53f-0818-713d-b80f-bd0042190237", "title": "Gentlemen, God rest you merry!", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2022/12/god-rest-you-merry-gentlemen-2.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=god-rest-you-merry-gentlemen-2", "published_at": "2022-12-23T13:10:46+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53f-0818-713d-b80f-bd0042e13f42", "title": "When ‘pomp’ met ‘circumstance’", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2022/12/pomp-and-circumstance.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pomp-and-circumstance", "published_at": "2022-12-19T13:10:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53f-0818-713d-b80f-bd00430e3045", "title": "On ‘thrice’ and ‘trice’", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2022/12/thrice-trice.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=thrice-trice", "published_at": "2022-12-12T13:10:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53f-0818-713d-b80f-bd0043e3a7d1", "title": "The subtleties of the silent ‘b’", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2022/12/silent-b.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=silent-b", "published_at": "2022-12-05T13:10:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53f-0818-713d-b80f-bd0043fc2d79", "title": "A few laps at the laptop", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2022/11/lap.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lap", "published_at": "2022-11-28T13:10:43+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53f-0818-713d-b80f-bd00441f1817", "title": "A tale of two plights", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2022/11/plight.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=plight", "published_at": "2022-11-21T13:10:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53f-0818-713d-b80f-bd004459e1f4", "title": "Why ‘it’s’ means ‘it is’ or ‘it has’", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2022/11/it-is-or-it-has.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=it-is-or-it-has", "published_at": "2022-11-14T13:10:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53f-0818-713d-b80f-bd0045361a71", "title": "Why you can ‘malign,’ but not ‘benign’", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2022/11/benign-malign.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=benign-malign", "published_at": "2022-11-07T12:10:22+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53f-0818-713d-b80f-bd00454e5cca", "title": "Getting down to the bone", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2022/10/bone-deep.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bone-deep", "published_at": "2022-10-31T12:10:43+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53f-0818-713d-b80f-bd00464d9d48", "title": "As to ‘as to’", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2022/10/as-to.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=as-to", "published_at": "2022-10-24T12:10:51+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53f-0818-713d-b80f-bd004704b67a", "title": "Rock around the clock", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2022/10/rock.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rock", "published_at": "2022-10-17T12:10:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53f-0818-713d-b80f-bd004778798b", "title": "Breaking up is hard to do", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2022/10/hyphenation.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hyphenation", "published_at": "2022-10-10T12:10:03+00:00" }, 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2024

An accommodating detectiveoriginal ↗
5 Aug 2024
We thank you kindlyoriginal ↗
29 Jul 2024
The stylish origin of ‘tag along’original ↗
22 Jul 2024
Rhyme and reason in Shakespeareoriginal ↗
15 Jul 2024
On the truckling artsoriginal ↗
8 Jul 2024
Whence the silent ‘c’ in ‘indict’?original ↗
1 Jul 2024
Playing the etymology cardoriginal ↗
24 Jun 2024
‘Ever more,’ ‘ever-more,’ ‘evermore’original ↗
17 Jun 2024
On ‘as such’ and its ‘as-suchness’  original ↗
10 Jun 2024
A wussy pronunciationoriginal ↗
3 Jun 2024
Beholden to a schedule?original ↗
27 May 2024
Like hell, like mad, like stinkoriginal ↗
20 May 2024
Oh, dear! Oh, deer!original ↗
13 May 2024
Footing the billoriginal ↗
6 May 2024
Mixed marriage: two ways to wedoriginal ↗
29 Apr 2024
The earliest English writingoriginal ↗
22 Apr 2024
Left for deadoriginal ↗
15 Apr 2024
Did you warsh behind your ears?original ↗
8 Apr 2024
‘Dad wouldn’t have a bar of it’original ↗
1 Apr 2024
Wanna look like a chumbolone?original ↗
25 Mar 2024
How unnatural is ‘preternatural’?original ↗
18 Mar 2024
‘You had your will of me’original ↗
11 Mar 2024
When ‘like’ means ‘lack’original ↗
4 Mar 2024
A tale of tricky endingsoriginal ↗
26 Feb 2024
On ‘giving’ and ‘giving back’original ↗
19 Feb 2024
Don’t sweat the small stufforiginal ↗
12 Feb 2024
A tale of two suffixesoriginal ↗
5 Feb 2024
The first exclamation point!original ↗
29 Jan 2024
Wordle fancies: ‘bezel’ vs. ‘bevel’original ↗
22 Jan 2024
Bookworms, in etymology & entomologyoriginal ↗
15 Jan 2024
Gob on a stickoriginal ↗
8 Jan 2024
Speaking of the silent final ‘e’original ↗
1 Jan 2024

2023

Some ‘randy’ thoughtsoriginal ↗
27 Dec 2023
A note to our readersoriginal ↗
25 Dec 2023
Something wicked this way comesoriginal ↗
18 Dec 2023
Dog days: Are you pooped?original ↗
11 Dec 2023
Happy Chanucha & Merry Xpes mæsseoriginal ↗
4 Dec 2023
When ‘stopping’ means ‘staying’original ↗
27 Nov 2023
Why we’re in cahootsoriginal ↗
20 Nov 2023
The rustle of a print dressoriginal ↗
13 Nov 2023
The purple haze of autumnoriginal ↗
6 Nov 2023
Why ‘sightseeing,’ not ‘siteseeing’?original ↗
30 Oct 2023
When a diet is a journeyoriginal ↗
23 Oct 2023
A chorus of exclamation points  original ↗
16 Oct 2023
Caesar’s wife in Shakespeareoriginal ↗
9 Oct 2023
Upon my word!original ↗
2 Oct 2023
Why a ‘beef’ is a complaint original ↗
25 Sept 2023
How ‘chintz’ became ‘chintzy’original ↗
18 Sept 2023
Is this ‘which’ dead?original ↗
11 Sept 2023
On ‘cul de sac’ and ‘dead end’original ↗
4 Sept 2023
On jays and jaywalkersoriginal ↗
28 Aug 2023
Every man and every womanoriginal ↗
21 Aug 2023
A double-edged swordoriginal ↗
14 Aug 2023
Why ‘beggar’ isn’t spelled ‘begger’original ↗
7 Aug 2023
How special is ‘especially’?original ↗
31 Jul 2023
Steal a marchoriginal ↗
24 Jul 2023
Bobby pins, bobby socks, and bobbiesoriginal ↗
17 Jul 2023
‘Pit road’ or ‘pit row’?original ↗
10 Jul 2023
Rhetorically speakingoriginal ↗
3 Jul 2023
‘Which, yeah. Whatever.’original ↗
26 Jun 2023
Was ‘it don’t’ once good English?original ↗
19 Jun 2023
When usage goes out the window*original ↗
12 Jun 2023
A riot in the gardenoriginal ↗
5 Jun 2023
What is ‘which’ doing here?original ↗
29 May 2023
You’re doing what?original ↗
22 May 2023
Why ‘one’ sounds like ‘won’original ↗
15 May 2023
‘Ask, and it shall be given you’original ↗
8 May 2023
Can a chatbot hallucinate?original ↗
1 May 2023
‘Time to get up, you lot!’original ↗
24 Apr 2023
Why we rely on a ‘go-to’original ↗
17 Apr 2023
Not to mention Pauloriginal ↗
10 Apr 2023
The laundry list, itemizedoriginal ↗
3 Apr 2023
Let’s liven things uporiginal ↗
27 Mar 2023
Did ‘y’all’ originate in England?original ↗
20 Mar 2023
Good, best, or well wishes?original ↗
13 Mar 2023
I’m a riddle: Am I ridiculous?original ↗
6 Mar 2023
On jurors and panelsoriginal ↗
27 Feb 2023
Why the ‘w’ is called a ‘double u’original ↗
20 Feb 2023
Why Old English looks so weirdoriginal ↗
13 Feb 2023
Does a plan ‘gel’ or ‘jell’?original ↗
6 Feb 2023
Better half (the whole story)original ↗
30 Jan 2023
‘Shot for a Jerry spy’original ↗
23 Jan 2023
Are you stumped?original ↗
16 Jan 2023
Whenever Harry met Sallyoriginal ↗
9 Jan 2023
What’s up, man?original ↗
2 Jan 2023

2022

The ‘it’ in ‘lording it over’original ↗
26 Dec 2022
Gentlemen, God rest you merry!original ↗
23 Dec 2022
When ‘pomp’ met ‘circumstance’original ↗
19 Dec 2022
On ‘thrice’ and ‘trice’original ↗
12 Dec 2022
The subtleties of the silent ‘b’original ↗
5 Dec 2022
A few laps at the laptoporiginal ↗
28 Nov 2022
A tale of two plightsoriginal ↗
21 Nov 2022
Why ‘it’s’ means ‘it is’ or ‘it has’original ↗
14 Nov 2022
Why you can ‘malign,’ but not ‘benign’original ↗
7 Nov 2022
Getting down to the boneoriginal ↗
31 Oct 2022
As to ‘as to’original ↗
24 Oct 2022
Rock around the clockoriginal ↗
17 Oct 2022
Breaking up is hard to dooriginal ↗
10 Oct 2022
The invisibilized manoriginal ↗
3 Oct 2022
Imperatively speakingoriginal ↗
26 Sept 2022
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