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.

This week I'm going to answer a bunch of listener questions,

but before we get started, I'm super excited

to tell you about a new thing I'm doing called Grammar Palusa. You make my work

possible just by listening to this show and the ads and I completely appreciate each and every

one of you who listens and yes each and every

is redundant but it's idiomatic to use for emphasis I appreciate each and every one of

you but for years people have also been asking for a way to directly support

the show and I've finally come up with something a little different that I think you'll like.

For 499 a month you can get text messages from me. Lots of fun language facts you want to share

with friends, maybe some behind-the-scenes tidbits and a convenient link to

the podcast.

So if you want to directly support the show and become a grammar-pollusian,

visit join subtext.com slash grammar.

That's join subtext.com slash grammar that's join subtext

dot com slash grammar the first two weeks are free so you can try it out

and I'll put it in the show notes it's also in my email newsletter and on my

social channels.

And thanks again to everyone for all your support over the years.

And now, on to your questions.

Hi, Grandma Girl. Hi grammar girl I would love to know why some words don't double the

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