Grammar girl here, do you want to get ahead, one word?

Or are you cooking an esoteric dish and want to get ahead, two words?

That one little space can make a big difference in meaning, either you're moving past others

in business or you're purchasing a skull.

When visiting South Korea years ago, our guest writer Bonnie Trangah saw a pile of pig heads

for sale in the market and says that was a most interesting experience.

We'll stay tuned to the end for most interesting tip on how to remember when to use the space bar.

When it comes to pairs such as a part with no space and a part with a space,

this spelling doesn't matter when you're talking, both sound the same.

When you write the words however, you might forget to add a space or you might add an unnecessary one.

This problem crops up with all kinds of words, but in this episode we're focusing on words

that begin with the letter A. Here's a short list of pairs, a head and a head, a light and a

light, a buzz and a buzz, a part and a part, and lastly a hold and a hold.

As you can see from this list, the one worders beginning with A can be various parts of speech,

a head is an adverb, a light is a verb and a buzz is an adjective.

The two worders on the other hand consist of an article, the word A and a noun, light, buzz,

part and hold. True, these words can sometimes be verbs, but when something follows the article A,

it's a noun. Unless something such as an adjective comes between the article and the noun

as in a delicious cake, as the article and cake is a noun with the adjective delicious in between

them. So let's see these four pairs in action. The first two, a light and a light and a buzz and a buzz

are the easy ones. You could say that annoying B wants to a light on my nose. This means the B

wants to land on your nose and there's no space in a light. If you say he turned on a light with a

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