Idioms from the Forest: The Meaning of to Weasel, to Ferret, and to Badger

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The Grammar Girl Week in Review Idioms from the Forest: The Meaning of to Weasel, to Ferret, and to Badger Have you seen any mustelids lately? You know, mustelids—the family of small carnivores that look like weasels. The family includes ferrets, otters, marten, fisher, sable, mink, and wolverines. Most have slender, tubelike bodies with short legs and long tails. ...Read More 08/19/2016 7:05am View           Who Versus Whom When you’re trying to figure out whether to use who or whom, it helps to know the difference between subjects and objects because you use who when you’re referring to the subject of a clause and whom when you’re referring to the object of a clause. In other words, who is a subject pronoun and whom is an object pronoun. ...Read More 08/18/2016 10:05pm View           Is ‘Preorder’ Redundant? My friend Kory Stamper, a lexicographer at Merriam-Webster, has a new book coming out in March called Word by Word, and I’m looking forward to reading it and I wanted to support her, so I preordered it; and then I tweeted about preordering it, and then I got a comment ...Read More 08/18/2016 3:17pm 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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