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Vote for Grammar Girl in the Annual Podcast Awards! It's podcast award season! If you love the Grammar Girl podcast, then please visit www.podcastawards.com and vote for the show in the Education category. You can vote every day between now and June 12th. Thanks for your support! The Grammar Girl Week in Review Grammar Girl on Jeopardy I got a wonderful surprise last week when Lori-Anne Williams tweeted that Grammar Girl was a question on the TV show Jeopardy. It was so exciting I could hardly believe it was true! In another sign that podcasts are becoming more mainstream, the show had a whole Podcasts category. Grammar Girl was included in the $200 question...Read More 06/01/2016 12:14pm View           Vonnegut's Famous Semicolon Advice Was Taken Out of Context For many writers, picking your favorite punctuation mark is a bit like picking your favorite child. All of them can move you to awe with their power and finesse, and all of them can frustrate and disappoint you with their weaknesses. Don’t you dare speak ill of them. Any of them. ...Read More 05/26/2016 8:48pm View           Off the Cuff Have you ever been asked to speak extemporaneously? You know, at the last minute? If so, you’ve had to speak off the cuff. The phrase off the cuff refers to something that’s done on the spur of the moment, without any practice or rehearsal. It describes how you might get ready for an unexpected speech. ...Read More 05/26/2016 6:32pm View           Are You Interurban? When you split your time between the East Coast and the West Coast, you can call yourself “bicoastal.” What about when you’re splitting your time between two cities, like a listener named Jeff, who splits his time between New York City and Boston? This seems like an answer only Charles Dickens could provide, but instead, we wanted Grammar Girl readers and listeners ...Read More 05/26/2016 6:19pm View               FROM QUICK AND DIRTY TIPS Get More Grammar Girl Visit the website. Subscribe to the Grammar Girl podcast at iTunes or via RSS. Find Grammar Girl books, gear, and more at the Quick and Dirty Tips store. Have Questions? Search the Quick and Dirty Tips website. We have more than 600 articles about grammar and language. There's a good chance your question has already been covered.                 Best wishes, (and the Quick and Dirty Tips Team)                 Want more tips? If this was forwarded to you by a friend and you'd like to receive future tips, you can sign up here. Please don't use the subscribe/unsubscribe link at the bottom of the page because this will overwrite your friend's subscription. (If this came directly to you, you can use the subscribe/unsubscribe link below to manage your subscription.)                 FOLLOW ME

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