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"2020-02-03T13:10:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c58d-2114-71cd-aed8-2ce156b569c6", "title": "Knit picking", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2020/01/knit-picking.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=knit-picking", "published_at": "2020-01-31T13:10:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c58d-2114-71cd-aed8-2ce156ef5669", "title": "Space Coast chronicle", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2020/01/swan-song-2.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=swan-song-2", "published_at": "2020-01-29T13:10:06+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c58d-2114-71cd-aed8-2ce15727d70c", "title": "But if the husband be dead …", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2020/01/subjunctive-4.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=subjunctive-4", "published_at": "2020-01-27T13:10:40+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c58d-2114-71cd-aed8-2ce157e5b331", "title": "Scrambled yeggs?", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2020/01/scrambled-yeggs.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=scrambled-yeggs", 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"https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2020/01/tootsie-toots.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tootsie-toots", "published_at": "2020-01-10T13:10:51+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c58d-2114-71cd-aed8-2ce159c52eb0", "title": "Ethos, logos, pathos", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2020/01/ethos-logos-pathos.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ethos-logos-pathos", "published_at": "2020-01-07T16:00:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c58d-2114-71cd-aed8-2ce15abf9cd8", "title": "Shrink, shrank, shrunk", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2020/01/shrink-shrank-shrunk.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=shrink-shrank-shrunk", "published_at": "2020-01-02T13:10:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c58d-2114-71cd-aed8-2ce15b54c63e", "title": "Hear Pat on Iowa Public Radio", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2020/01/hear-pat-on-iowa-public-radio-10.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hear-pat-on-iowa-public-radio-10", "published_at": "2020-01-02T12:10:34+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c58d-2114-71cd-aed8-2ce15beb0fed", "title": "Are Normandy veggies Norman?", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2019/12/normandy-vegetables.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=normandy-vegetables", "published_at": "2019-12-30T13:10:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c58d-2114-71cd-aed8-2ce15cb7e8cb", "title": "Santa wore combat boots", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2019/12/santa-3.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=santa-3", "published_at": "2019-12-25T13:10:01+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c58d-2114-71cd-aed8-2ce15d062705", "title": "Pajama games for Christmas", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2019/12/pajamas.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pajamas", "published_at": "2019-12-23T13:10:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c58d-2114-71cd-aed8-2ce15d4044c5", "title": "No hidebound conservative he", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2019/12/subject-verb-inversion.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=subject-verb-inversion", "published_at": "2019-12-20T13:10:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c58d-2114-71cd-aed8-2ce15dcb1bbc", "title": "Is your shirt boiled?", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2019/12/boiled-shirt.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=boiled-shirt", "published_at": "2019-12-16T13:10:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c58d-2114-71cd-aed8-2ce15dce5415", "title": "A jerry-rigged etymology", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2019/12/jerry-rigged.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=jerry-rigged", "published_at": "2019-12-13T13:10:46+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c58d-2114-71cd-aed8-2ce15e3ad6a4", "title": "Nag, nag, nag", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2019/12/nag.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nag", "published_at": "2019-12-09T13:10:06+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c58d-2114-71cd-aed8-2ce15eb6b137", "title": "You’re darn tootin’!", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2019/12/darn-tootin.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=darn-tootin", "published_at": "2019-12-02T13:10:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c58d-2114-71cd-aed8-2ce15fa1f2c2", "title": "Why is a turkey leg a drumstick?", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2019/11/drumstick.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=drumstick", "published_at": "2019-11-27T13:10:40+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c58d-2114-71cd-aed8-2ce1607859f0", "title": "Why don’t we use ‘farthermore’?", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2019/11/furthermore-farthermore.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=furthermore-farthermore", "published_at": "2019-11-25T13:10:42+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c58d-2114-71cd-aed8-2ce1612cbcb0", "title": "A hwale of a story", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2019/11/whale.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=whale", "published_at": "2019-11-22T13:10:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c58d-2114-71cd-aed8-2ce1621ad811", "title": "When a nudge is a noodge", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2019/11/noodge-nudge.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=noodge-nudge", "published_at": "2019-11-18T13:10:30+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c58d-2114-71cd-aed8-2ce1625c1851", "title": "How possessive are you?", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2019/11/possessives.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=possessives", "published_at": "2019-11-13T13:10:09+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c58d-2114-71cd-aed8-2ce1631742d4", "title": "For veterans, an old war story", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2019/11/veterans-day.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=veterans-day", "published_at": "2019-11-11T13:10:58+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c58d-2114-71cd-aed8-2ce1639d5a7e", "title": "Shadows on the wall", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2019/11/due-to.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=due-to", "published_at": "2019-11-08T13:10:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c58d-2114-71cd-aed8-2ce1640d762e", "title": "Lock, stock, and barrel", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2019/11/lock-stock-and-barrel.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lock-stock-and-barrel", "published_at": "2019-11-04T12:10:59+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c58d-2114-71cd-aed8-2ce164a7cbb5", "title": "Hallowe’en be thy name", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2019/10/halloween-4.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=halloween-4", "published_at": "2019-10-30T12:10:06+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c58d-2114-71cd-aed8-2ce1659efa3e", "title": "Like more, only more so", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2019/10/moreso.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=moreso", "published_at": "2019-10-28T12:10:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c58d-2114-71cd-aed8-2ce165d42fe6", "title": "Are you a fuddy-duddy?", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2019/10/fuddy-duddy.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fuddy-duddy", "published_at": "2019-10-21T12:10:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0f00c-e131-7196-af58-56873689673b", "title": "Skid row or skid road?", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2019/10/skid-row-skid-road.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=skid-row-skid-road", "published_at": "2019-10-16T12:10:50+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0f00c-e131-7196-af58-5687377407ae", "title": "Why is a loo a toilet in the UK?", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2019/10/why-is-a-loo-a-toilet-in-the-uk.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-is-a-loo-a-toilet-in-the-uk", "published_at": "2019-10-14T12:10:32+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0f00c-e131-7196-af58-568738175ff6", "title": "Did muckrakers once rake muck?", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2019/10/muckraker.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=muckraker", "published_at": "2019-10-11T12:10:56+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0f00c-e131-7196-af58-5687386927ef", "title": "How susceptible are you?", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2019/10/susceptible.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=susceptible", "published_at": "2019-10-09T12:10:01+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0f00c-e131-7196-af58-5687386a5091", "title": "Petard hoisting", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2019/10/petard-hoisting.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=petard-hoisting", "published_at": "2019-10-07T12:10:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0f00c-e131-7196-af58-568738e998f0", "title": "When a rose isn’t a rose", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2019/10/rose-of-sharon.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rose-of-sharon", "published_at": "2019-10-04T12:10:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0f00c-e131-7196-af58-5687394f7a10", "title": "Vowel movement", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2019/10/vowel-movement.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=vowel-movement", "published_at": "2019-10-02T12:10:31+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0f00c-e131-7196-af58-56873a15c5b9", "title": "A job is a job is a job", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2019/09/job.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=job", "published_at": "2019-09-30T12:10:50+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0f00c-e131-7196-af58-56873a9025d1", "title": "In defense of ‘crispy’", "url": "https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2019/09/crisp-crispy.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=crisp-crispy", "published_at": "2019-09-27T12:10:09+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2020

What’s a mook?original ↗
28 Aug 2020
Black sheeporiginal ↗
24 Aug 2020
On the ‘ob-’ in ‘oblong’original ↗
21 Aug 2020
What’s news?original ↗
17 Aug 2020
Lex educationoriginal ↗
14 Aug 2020
How a poke became a pocketoriginal ↗
10 Aug 2020
Henchmen and minionsoriginal ↗
7 Aug 2020
On ‘capitulate’ and ‘recapitulate’original ↗
3 Aug 2020
How nasty is ‘mean-spirited’?original ↗
31 Jul 2020
Burgle or burglarize?original ↗
27 Jul 2020
Whomspun historyoriginal ↗
24 Jul 2020
A stare’s nest by Yeats’s windoworiginal ↗
20 Jul 2020
Independence ‘of’ or ‘from’?original ↗
17 Jul 2020
‘Buck naked’ or ‘butt naked’?original ↗
13 Jul 2020
Working hard or hardly working?original ↗
10 Jul 2020
How inclusive is ‘including’?original ↗
6 Jul 2020
Running low on champagneoriginal ↗
3 Jul 2020
Shedding a little night lightoriginal ↗
29 Jun 2020
On ‘damage’ and ‘damages’original ↗
26 Jun 2020
San fairy ann: Why a duckboard?original ↗
22 Jun 2020
Drunk as a skunkoriginal ↗
19 Jun 2020
Wrapped around the axleoriginal ↗
15 Jun 2020
Depart … or depart from?original ↗
12 Jun 2020
Coots, feathered and otherwiseoriginal ↗
8 Jun 2020
Is ‘least favorite’ most disliked?original ↗
5 Jun 2020
When negatives collideoriginal ↗
1 Jun 2020
Did she coin ‘wuss’ and ‘wussy’?original ↗
29 May 2020
Why a black swan is a rara avisoriginal ↗
25 May 2020
Even so, amenoriginal ↗
22 May 2020
A needy confectionoriginal ↗
18 May 2020
Sea chantey or shanty?original ↗
15 May 2020
Is ‘butt’ short for ‘buttock’?original ↗
11 May 2020
The singularity of Mother’s Dayoriginal ↗
10 May 2020
Why fourteen isn’t onety-fouroriginal ↗
8 May 2020
Textured hairoriginal ↗
4 May 2020
Guilty as chargedoriginal ↗
1 May 2020
‘The coronavirus’ or ‘coronavirus’?original ↗
27 Apr 2020
Why bacon strips are ‘rashers’original ↗
24 Apr 2020
A flight of chardonnaysoriginal ↗
20 Apr 2020
A little off the fringe?original ↗
17 Apr 2020
To internet, or not to internet?original ↗
13 Apr 2020
When Harry met ‘high maintenance’original ↗
10 Apr 2020
Link, a bendable wordoriginal ↗
6 Apr 2020
Is the pun in the pudding?original ↗
3 Apr 2020
When walk-ins walk inoriginal ↗
30 Mar 2020
From the horse’s mouthoriginal ↗
27 Mar 2020
Help bake, or help to bake?original ↗
23 Mar 2020
Which virus is more deadly?original ↗
20 Mar 2020
When ‘drastically’ is too drasticoriginal ↗
16 Mar 2020
Tidbit or titbit?original ↗
13 Mar 2020
Sticking in a knife with a smileoriginal ↗
9 Mar 2020
Is the parrot willful or willing?original ↗
6 Mar 2020
Now I am become Deathoriginal ↗
2 Mar 2020
‘Outshone’ or ‘outshined’?original ↗
28 Feb 2020
Courting a honey or a heartacheoriginal ↗
24 Feb 2020
A ‘they’ by any other nameoriginal ↗
21 Feb 2020
Complementary remarksoriginal ↗
18 Feb 2020
An etymological valentineoriginal ↗
14 Feb 2020
All het uporiginal ↗
10 Feb 2020
Not a man but felt this terrororiginal ↗
7 Feb 2020
‘Premier’ or ‘premiere’?original ↗
3 Feb 2020
Knit pickingoriginal ↗
31 Jan 2020
Space Coast chronicleoriginal ↗
29 Jan 2020
But if the husband be dead …original ↗
27 Jan 2020
Scrambled yeggs?original ↗
24 Jan 2020
Disoriented or disorientated?original ↗
20 Jan 2020
Doing hard timeoriginal ↗
17 Jan 2020
Memes, tropes, and notionsoriginal ↗
13 Jan 2020
How ‘tootsie’ became ‘toots’original ↗
10 Jan 2020
Ethos, logos, pathosoriginal ↗
7 Jan 2020
Shrink, shrank, shrunkoriginal ↗
2 Jan 2020
Hear Pat on Iowa Public Radiooriginal ↗
2 Jan 2020

2019

Are Normandy veggies Norman?original ↗
30 Dec 2019
Santa wore combat bootsoriginal ↗
25 Dec 2019
Pajama games for Christmasoriginal ↗
23 Dec 2019
No hidebound conservative heoriginal ↗
20 Dec 2019
Is your shirt boiled?original ↗
16 Dec 2019
A jerry-rigged etymologyoriginal ↗
13 Dec 2019
Nag, nag, nagoriginal ↗
9 Dec 2019
You’re darn tootin’!original ↗
2 Dec 2019
Why is a turkey leg a drumstick?original ↗
27 Nov 2019
Why don’t we use ‘farthermore’?original ↗
25 Nov 2019
A hwale of a storyoriginal ↗
22 Nov 2019
When a nudge is a noodgeoriginal ↗
18 Nov 2019
How possessive are you?original ↗
13 Nov 2019
For veterans, an old war storyoriginal ↗
11 Nov 2019
Shadows on the walloriginal ↗
8 Nov 2019
Lock, stock, and barreloriginal ↗
4 Nov 2019
Hallowe’en be thy nameoriginal ↗
30 Oct 2019
Like more, only more sooriginal ↗
28 Oct 2019
Are you a fuddy-duddy?original ↗
21 Oct 2019
Skid row or skid road?original ↗
16 Oct 2019
Why is a loo a toilet in the UK?original ↗
14 Oct 2019
Did muckrakers once rake muck?original ↗
11 Oct 2019
How susceptible are you?original ↗
9 Oct 2019
Petard hoistingoriginal ↗
7 Oct 2019
When a rose isn’t a roseoriginal ↗
4 Oct 2019
Vowel movementoriginal ↗
2 Oct 2019
A job is a job is a joboriginal ↗
30 Sept 2019
In defense of ‘crispy’original ↗
27 Sept 2019
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