We're Flat Fine With These Adverbs | YSIW
We're Flat Fine With These Adverbs | YSIW
Today, Kathy and Ross teach Fletcher about "flat adverbs," which look just like their adjective counterparts, but are st... Read more
25 Jun 2021
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27mins
It's The Wild West Out Here! | YSIW
It's The Wild West Out Here! | YSIW
Today we take a big step back and answer a common listener question about exactly why we don't talk that much about "The... Read more
11 Jun 2021
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32mins
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Mailbag Day! Or, We Lay Waste (to) The English Language | YSIW
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We dip into some listener questions, including one about our recent "reflexive pronouns" discussion and one that has us ... Read more
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A Return To Blipover Words | YSIW
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Cue up De La Soul, today we're talking "Me, Myself, and I!" Fletcher tries to wrap his head around reflexive pronouns an... Read more
30 Apr 2021
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We Are Loath (Loathe?) To Confuse These Words | YSIW
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After Fletcher vents his rage about a word he's starting to hear being misused more and more often, and then Kathy and R... Read more
16 Apr 2021
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We're Incredulous That These Words Are Confused | YSIW
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We return to our trip through the alphabet of commonly confused words, picking up with the letter "F", maybe skipping a ... Read more
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A Word Or Two About Portmanteaus | YSIW
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Grab your two favorite words, smoosh 'em up together, and you got yourself a portmanteau! After Fletcher gets over some ... Read more
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Words We D-E-F-initely Confuse | YSIW
Words We D-E-F-initely Confuse | YSIW
We continue our trip through the alphabet of commonly confused words as we tackle the letters D, E, and F... or that's t... Read more
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Tossing Words Around Willy-Nilly | YSIW
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This episode we'll dig into some words (and one punctuation mark!) that we toss around willy-nilly that maybe we don't t... Read more
19 Feb 2021
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35mins
