Shibboleth. Greeting Card Grammar. Bunkaree.

Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing

Mignon Fogarty, Inc.

Society & Culture, Education

4.5 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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0:00.0	I'm in Yon Foggedy and you can think of me as your friendly guide to the English language.
0:11.2	We talk about writing, history, rules, and cool stuff.
0:14.7	Today I'm answering a couple of listener questions and then I'll help you avoid embarrassing
0:18.8	mistakes in all your holiday correspondence.
0:22.5	I'll start with a quick answer to a question from Melissa about a pronunciation in last week's
0:27.1	show.
0:28.1	Hi, my name is Melissa.
0:31.0	I am listening to your latest episode on podcast and you're talking about tag questions.
0:39.6	I'm actually an English teacher and I've always called them tag questions, spelled
0:44.3	THG.
0:45.3	But you call them tag questions.
0:49.0	Almost pronounced like TEG tag questions.
0:52.9	And I call them tag questions.
0:55.0	What's the difference?
0:56.0	Are they the same?
0:57.0	We both talking about the same thing.
1:00.0	You just pronounce it differently or I pronounce it differently.
1:03.7	Just wanted to clarify, thanks, Minion.
1:05.8	Happy holidays and love your podcast.
1:10.4	Thanks, Melissa.
1:11.7	People comment on my pronunciation of words like this a lot.
1:15.3	Craig from Wake Forest in North Carolina called in about it a couple of years ago and I
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