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Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing

605 - A Homophone Error at the SAG Awards. Lectern or Podium? Capitalizing Award Names

Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing

Mignon Fogarty, Inc.

Society & Culture, Education

4.52.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2018

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

How a homophone mix up led to Judi Dench bread jokes. Also, the difference between a lectern, a podium, and a dais, and a Quick and Dirty Tip about capitalizing award names. FOLLOW GRAMMAR GIRL Twitter: http://twitter.com/grammargirl Facebook: http://facebook.com/grammargirl Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/realgrammargirl Instagram: http://instagram.com/thegrammargirl LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/grammar-girl GRAMMAR POP Optimized for iPad: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/grammar-pop-hd/id666851934?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4 For all iOS Devices: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/grammar-pop-hd/id666851934?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4 GRAMMAR GIRL BOOKS http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-girl-book-page Grammar Girl is part of the Quick and Dirty Tips podcast network. Check out all the Quick and Dirty Tips shows: www.quickanddirtytips.com/podcasts

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0:00.0

Gramer girl here, I'm Mignon Fogredy and this week I have a meaty middle about homophones,

0:10.3

homographs and hominems, and a quick and dirty tip about the difference between a lectern,

0:15.9

a podium and a deus, and another quick and dirty tip about capitalizing award names.

0:23.6

The screen actors' guild awards were a couple of nights ago.

0:26.9

They're more commonly called the SAG awards, and they had a doozy of an error on Judy

0:32.2

Dentch's name card.

0:34.6

She was nominated for an award called Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading

0:39.8

Roll for her work in the movie Victoria and Abdul.

0:44.0

But instead of spelling it R-O-L-E for roll, they spelled it R-O-L-L, like the bread.

0:51.8

I'm a complete sucker for silly jokes, so I loved all the tweets that followed.

0:56.7

These are just a few.

0:58.3

Ethan J. Sacks tweeted, once again she's the toast of Hollywood.

1:03.6

Andy Oroch tweeted, finally, payoff for all those upper crust portrayals.

1:09.5

Jeff, who goes by music psych, gets extra points for using references to bread in two languages.

1:15.4

By tweeting, don't pan her performance.

1:18.1

She really rose to the occasion.

1:20.8

Pan is bread in Spanish.

1:22.9

And finally, Mike Davidson capted off with the quick, red jokes get so stale.

1:29.1

Words like R-O-L-E and R-O-L-L, which are spelled differently, but sound the same, are called

1:36.2

homophones.

1:37.9

The homo root means same, and the phone root means sound.

1:43.2

So homophones are words that sound the same.

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