Gramer Girl here, I'm Minyon Fuggedy.

You've heard of active voice.

You've heard of passive voice.

But this week we're also going to talk about something called middle voice.

But first I have to correct a pronunciation.

Last week I talked about why we say I didn't just fall off the turnip track.

And I said that an ancient Greek playwright wrote about beggars who were so poor they ate

turnip leaves.

I called him Aristophanes.

But it's actually pronounced Aristophanes, which I recognize immediately now that I hear

it said the right way.

Thanks to those of you who sent nice messages with the correct pronunciation.

And here's a tip.

I usually check pronunciations of words I'm not sure of.

But I often use online dictionaries, which usually have audio pronunciations you can play.

But Neil Whitman also told me about a site called UGlish that I've been using a lot,

especially when the word or name isn't in a dictionary.

That's Y-O-U-G-L-I-S-H, like English, but with U in front.

It seems to search YouTube for instances where people say the word you enter, so you get

to hear a few different people pronouncing the word.

Which I should have done with Aristophanes.

And now onto the meaty middle.

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