Grammar Girl here, I'm in Yon Fog, your friendly guide to the English language.

We talk about writing, history, rules, and other cool stuff.

And today is episode 1000.

And that just blows my mind.

Back in April, I read that only 0.14% of podcasts have made it to 1,000 episodes.

So I felt like I should do something special.

At first, I thought, 1,000 episodes, maybe it should take a day off. But that, my friends, is not how you

get to a thousand episodes. So instead, I'm answering some of your questions, not about specific language topics, but about the show and bigger

picture ideas about language.

You can think of it like what happens when I give a radio interview.

I've actually given hundreds of radio

interviews over the years, but I'm sure most of you have never heard any of them.

So to get started, here's a good question from one of my grammar,

Pelusians. Here's a good question from one of my grammar Palestinians.

Hi Grammar Girl, this is Jillian from Canada.

First, I wanted to congratulate you on reaching a thousand episodes

and thank you for the many years of valuable information.

Learning Renew has significantly refined

to my writing and grammar.

As a longtime Grammar Girl podcast listener, I'm curious about your origin story.

Since you were an early adopter in the podcast base, what inspired you to start your

podcast? Thank you for all that you do and I look forward to many more episodes.

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