Grammar Girl here. I'm Inion Fogarty and today I am here with Doug Harper from the online

etymology dictionary, affectionately known as Etyem online. Doug has created this resource that is,

it's one of just a handful of things that I use almost every day. I can't imagine

doing my job without it. So Doug, welcome to the Grammar Girl podcast. Hey, thanks for having me.

I've been looking forward to this. I'm so excited to finally meet you. You know, I put out a call

on social media for questions that people might have for you. And the overwhelming response I got

was just people saying, tell him thank you. And the overwhelming response I got was just people

saying, tell him thank you. I tell him thank you for making this amazing resource. So the world

loves you. I don't want to say that doesn't matter because it matters a good deal to hear that

from people from time to time. Just don't let it go to my head. No, tell creators you like

their work. Writers. Yes. Yes. It matters tell creators you like their work. Yes.

Yes. Yeah.

It matters.

It's almost as good as money and better in the right ways.

That's right.

Well, you know, we're going to talk about the site and your process a little later, but I thought to get started, you've given me some words we can talk about their etymologies, which is always obviously

interesting, that sort of are entry ways into bigger questions about etymology.

So the first one we have is grave.

The grave we bury people in is not the same as when you say, like, he has a grave problem.

And I thought that was so interesting.

It is because it's it's subtle. We could go in and look at the actual entries and I can show you

how to use the site to answer the question, are they probably related or probably not?

...