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"2021-11-01T12:10:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c550-b7f9-70c3-b5d9-afd2d7c2329a", "title": "The spooky season", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2021/10/spooky-season.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=spooky-season", "published_at": "2021-10-29T12:10:27+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c550-b7f9-70c3-b5d9-afd2d8919c50", "title": "The ‘boo’ in ‘peekaboo’", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2021/10/peekaboo.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=peekaboo", "published_at": "2021-10-25T12:10:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c550-b7f9-70c3-b5d9-afd2d94a9696", "title": "Pop-ups popping up all over", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2021/10/pop-up.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pop-up", "published_at": "2021-10-22T12:10:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c550-b7f9-70c3-b5d9-afd2da2136fd", "title": "Seamstresses, midwives, and gender", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2021/10/seamstress-midwife.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=seamstress-midwife", "published_at": "2021-10-18T12:10:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c550-b7f9-70c3-b5d9-afd2db05836f", "title": "The four corners of the earth", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2021/10/four-corners-of-the-earth.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=four-corners-of-the-earth", "published_at": "2021-10-15T12:10:27+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c550-b7f9-70c3-b5d9-afd2dbb905e5", "title": "Fact, fiction, or faction?", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2021/10/faction.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=faction", "published_at": "2021-10-11T12:00:35+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c550-b7f9-70c3-b5d9-afd2dbf2cf5c", "title": "Bespoke burgers and running shoes", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2021/10/bespoke.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bespoke", "published_at": "2021-10-08T12:10:18+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c550-b7f9-70c3-b5d9-afd2dc0b753f", "title": "When ‘only’ is apt to be dismal", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2021/10/only-2.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=only-2", "published_at": "2021-10-04T12:10:42+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c550-b7f9-70c3-b5d9-afd2dc412098", "title": "Handsome is as handsome does", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2021/10/handsome-2.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=handsome-2", "published_at": "2021-10-01T12:10:35+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c550-b7f9-70c3-b5d9-afd2dc85b9f2", "title": "Let’s swap", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2021/09/swap.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=swap", "published_at": "2021-09-27T12:10:05+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c550-b7f9-70c3-b5d9-afd2dcd64c6d", "title": "I’ll be damned if it wasn’t Jerry!", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2021/09/damned-if.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=damned-if", "published_at": "2021-09-24T12:10:18+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c550-b7f9-70c3-b5d9-afd2dd28c4f5", "title": "Categorically speaking: in, into, by", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2021/09/in-into-by.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=in-into-by", "published_at": "2021-09-20T12:10:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c550-b7f9-70c3-b5d9-afd2de0c7045", "title": "Putting English on the ball", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2021/09/english-side-spin.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=english-side-spin", "published_at": "2021-09-17T12:10:17+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c559-1e2e-7176-8e3b-9d08797194a5", "title": "An ‘or’ … or more?", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2021/09/an-or-or-more.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=an-or-or-more", "published_at": "2021-09-13T12:10:40+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c559-1e2e-7176-8e3b-9d0879a0eb40", "title": "Black Lives Matter", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2021/09/black-lives-matter.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=black-lives-matter", "published_at": "2021-09-10T12:10:11+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c559-1e2e-7176-8e3b-9d0879bf70ad", "title": "Oneself or one’s self?", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2021/09/oneself-or-ones-self.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=oneself-or-ones-self", "published_at": "2021-09-06T12:10:18+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c559-1e2e-7176-8e3b-9d087a6303d6", "title": "How do you copy?", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2021/09/copy-2.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=copy-2", "published_at": "2021-09-03T12:10:58+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c559-1e2e-7176-8e3b-9d087aaac49b", "title": "In pursuit of the quick brown fox", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2021/08/pangram.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pangram", "published_at": "2021-08-30T12:10:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c559-1e2e-7176-8e3b-9d087b5b67f8", "title": "Why a duck?", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2021/08/why-a-duck.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-a-duck", "published_at": "2021-08-27T12:10:03+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c559-1e2e-7176-8e3b-9d087bb241b5", "title": "A note to readers", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2021/08/a-note-to-readers.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-note-to-readers", "published_at": "2021-08-26T16:30:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c559-1e2e-7176-8e3b-9d087c22476f", "title": "Thee bist purty, my love", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2021/08/thee-bist.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=thee-bist", "published_at": "2021-08-23T12:10:18+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c559-1e2e-7176-8e3b-9d087c8e3713", "title": "A questionable caticism", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2021/08/skin-a-cat.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=skin-a-cat", "published_at": "2021-08-20T12:10:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c559-1e2e-7176-8e3b-9d087cc4f7f8", "title": "Anent what nanny really meant", "url": 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2022

Imperatively speakingoriginal ↗
26 Sept 2022
The pilgrimage of ‘progress’original ↗
19 Sept 2022
Blowing Their Coveroriginal ↗
14 Sept 2022
Can you break a phrasal verb up?original ↗
12 Sept 2022
There, there, don’t cryoriginal ↗
5 Sept 2022
I can’t believe it’s not margerine!original ↗
29 Aug 2022
On claret, hock, and sackoriginal ↗
22 Aug 2022
On ‘bottom,’ a fundamental thingoriginal ↗
15 Aug 2022
Phee-phi-pho-phumoriginal ↗
8 Aug 2022
‘Got a screwdriver?’ … ‘I do.’original ↗
1 Aug 2022
Casting a little lightoriginal ↗
25 Jul 2022
Weak in the kneesoriginal ↗
18 Jul 2022
A sticky questionoriginal ↗
11 Jul 2022
Speaking of grandparents …original ↗
4 Jul 2022
The case of the sluggish sluggeroriginal ↗
27 Jun 2022
Clause encountersoriginal ↗
20 Jun 2022
A singular journeyoriginal ↗
13 Jun 2022
Why is a coward called a ‘chicken’?original ↗
6 Jun 2022
Not ‘al-’ thereoriginal ↗
30 May 2022
On Passover and Easteroriginal ↗
23 May 2022
When Mom dies, is it your loss or hers?original ↗
16 May 2022
Bomb cyclone: A blast from the pastoriginal ↗
9 May 2022
How a clotheshorse became chicoriginal ↗
2 May 2022
Three degrees of separationoriginal ↗
25 Apr 2022
Orthographic originsoriginal ↗
18 Apr 2022
‘Sewer,’ Uncle Matthew’s pet sluroriginal ↗
11 Apr 2022
On Ralphs and Rafesoriginal ↗
4 Apr 2022
Why ‘any other’ doesn’t mean ‘any’original ↗
28 Mar 2022
Why ‘well-heeled’ means well-to-dooriginal ↗
21 Mar 2022
Wet behind the earsoriginal ↗
14 Mar 2022
Is ‘curt’ terser than ‘terse’?original ↗
11 Mar 2022
Is ‘lovely’ a girly word?original ↗
7 Mar 2022
The poop about a mass nounoriginal ↗
4 Mar 2022
Who invented the question mark?original ↗
28 Feb 2022
The battle for ‘Kyiv’original ↗
25 Feb 2022
We are met on a great battle-fieldoriginal ↗
21 Feb 2022
Tracking the ‘daily double’original ↗
18 Feb 2022
‘On the TV’ vs. ‘on TV’original ↗
14 Feb 2022
Did great-granddad coin ‘bloviate’?original ↗
11 Feb 2022
What’s normal about a ‘normal school’?original ↗
7 Feb 2022
When ‘nubile’ became sexyoriginal ↗
4 Feb 2022
A sod storyoriginal ↗
31 Jan 2022
Nuptial commotions!original ↗
28 Jan 2022
Comparatively speakingoriginal ↗
24 Jan 2022
Waste paperoriginal ↗
21 Jan 2022
A fortuitous  etymology?original ↗
17 Jan 2022
Cut to the chaseoriginal ↗
14 Jan 2022
The twisted history of ‘bent’original ↗
10 Jan 2022
Greenwashing and pinkwashingoriginal ↗
7 Jan 2022
Swear like a sailororiginal ↗
3 Jan 2022

2021

A belated Christmas caroloriginal ↗
31 Dec 2021
Cut, butt, skip, or ditch in line?original ↗
27 Dec 2021
Jeeves and the festive spiritoriginal ↗
24 Dec 2021
Disparate, or merely different?original ↗
20 Dec 2021
A usage with legsoriginal ↗
17 Dec 2021
Don’t badger meoriginal ↗
13 Dec 2021
The life of a lived experienceoriginal ↗
10 Dec 2021
Is your Mandarin rusty?original ↗
6 Dec 2021
A friend of Dorothyoriginal ↗
3 Dec 2021
To beg the questionoriginal ↗
29 Nov 2021
A weighty look at gravitasoriginal ↗
26 Nov 2021
On ‘pent’ and ‘spent’original ↗
22 Nov 2021
A prohibitive favoriteoriginal ↗
19 Nov 2021
So what’s on offer?original ↗
15 Nov 2021
‘I’m by way of being a doctor’original ↗
12 Nov 2021
What’s ‘done’ doing here?original ↗
8 Nov 2021
With a grain of saltoriginal ↗
5 Nov 2021
How first names became last namesoriginal ↗
1 Nov 2021
The spooky seasonoriginal ↗
29 Oct 2021
The ‘boo’ in ‘peekaboo’original ↗
25 Oct 2021
Pop-ups popping up all overoriginal ↗
22 Oct 2021
Seamstresses, midwives, and genderoriginal ↗
18 Oct 2021
The four corners of the earthoriginal ↗
15 Oct 2021
Fact, fiction, or faction?original ↗
11 Oct 2021
Bespoke burgers and running shoesoriginal ↗
8 Oct 2021
When ‘only’ is apt to be dismaloriginal ↗
4 Oct 2021
Handsome is as handsome doesoriginal ↗
1 Oct 2021
Let’s swaporiginal ↗
27 Sept 2021
I’ll be damned if it wasn’t Jerry!original ↗
24 Sept 2021
Categorically speaking: in, into, byoriginal ↗
20 Sept 2021
Putting English on the balloriginal ↗
17 Sept 2021
An ‘or’ … or more?original ↗
13 Sept 2021
Black Lives Matteroriginal ↗
10 Sept 2021
Oneself or one’s self?original ↗
6 Sept 2021
How do you copy?original ↗
3 Sept 2021
In pursuit of the quick brown foxoriginal ↗
30 Aug 2021
Why a duck?original ↗
27 Aug 2021
A note to readersoriginal ↗
26 Aug 2021
Thee bist purty, my loveoriginal ↗
23 Aug 2021
A questionable caticismoriginal ↗
20 Aug 2021
Anent what nanny really meantoriginal ↗
16 Aug 2021
Lisztomania and other maniasoriginal ↗
13 Aug 2021
A gentle reminderoriginal ↗
9 Aug 2021
True north, literal and figurativeoriginal ↗
6 Aug 2021
Do you know your onions?original ↗
2 Aug 2021
On Fowler and his idiosyncrasyoriginal ↗
30 Jul 2021
A note to our email subscribersoriginal ↗
30 Jul 2021
The coast is clearoriginal ↗
26 Jul 2021
‘Lukewarm’ and ‘lukecool’original ↗
23 Jul 2021
Not quite cricket?original ↗
19 Jul 2021
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