What Is Pay Dirt?

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The Grammar Girl Week in Review What Is Pay Dirt? Have you ever heard the expression to hit pay dirt? It means to make a valuable discovery or a sudden fortune. But what is pay dirt? And how do you hit it? Let’s find out. ...Read More 09/16/2016 12:15am View           When to Use—and Not Use—an Em-Dash When people think of punctuation marks, it is usually the handy comma, the imperious colon, or the overly excited exclamation mark that comes to mind. The stodgy semicolon and sinuous question mark might get thrown into the mix, but rarely—if ever—will somebody mention a punctuation mark ...Read More 09/15/2016 11:05pm View           Why It’s Bridget Jones’s (not Jones’) Baby I almost forgot that the movie Bridget Jones’s Baby was coming out last weekend until my friend Stephanie asked whether it would be Jones’ Baby, or Jones’s Baby, or maybe Joneses’ Baby. ‘Jones’ Is Singular Since it's just Bridget, she is a single Jones. It is the baby of Bridget Jones. We aren't talking about a family of plural Joneses. ...Read More 09/15/2016 10:50pm 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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