Grandma Girl here, today's topic is Graduation.

I can't believe it's already May.

Graduation season is around the corner, which means my inbox will soon be full of complaints

about the phrase Graduated College, and those complainers are right to be annoyed.

For example, Becky from Sacramento wrote in last year, to say that it's like hearing

finger nails on a chalkboard when she hears people say something like, he graduated high

school in 1988.

Is it correct to omit the proposition from, she asks?

No Becky, it's not correct.

The sentence should read, he graduated from high school in 1988.

At first, I thought this topic was too narrow to deserve a whole podcast.

I haven't really heard the phrase Graduated College or Graduated High School much myself.

But apparently, I just don't get out enough, because when I did a Google search, the phrase

Graduated College was twice as popular as the phrase Graduated From College, twice.

The wrong way of saying it showed up twice as often.

I scrolled through the results for Graduated College, hoping perhaps I hadn't thought

of a saying in which the two words just happened to show up next to each other.

But alas, every result I looked at was a student talking about how they had just graduated

college.

I then realized I was going through the five stages of grief.

Scrutinizing the results was actually the first stage, denial.

I really couldn't believe that the wrong wording could be twice as common.

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