Grammar Girl here. I'm Minion Fuggedy and you can think of me as your friendly guide to

the English language. We talk about writing, history, rules, and cool stuff. Today I have

a bunch of interesting words we use to talk about walking and a follow-up to last week's

episode about prepositions, talking about when you should stress prepositions and whether

you should say a car almost ran over me or a car almost ran me over. But first this week I have

two eek two corrections. Last week we said the quote investigator's site is run by Fred Shapiro,

but it is actually run by Garcin O'Toole, who is also the author of the book, Hemingway didn't say

that, the truth behind familiar quotations. But we didn't hallucinate Fred Shapiro. He also

writes about quotations and has a book coming out titled The New Yale Book of Quotations.

We apologize for mixing up the works of two excellent and prolific quotation researchers,

Garcin O'Toole of the quote investigator website, and Fred Shapiro of Yale Law School.

And then two weeks ago in a segment about the word subpar, we messed up golf statistics.

We talked about Tiger Woods' industrial and Johnson scores as being 13 and 20 under par for one

round when they were really that much under par for the whole tournament. Still impressive, but not

the same. This week we are celebrating walking at quick and dirty tips, my podcast network,

because we know a lot of you listen to podcasts while you go for walks. But that got me wondering,

when you walk, do you amble, meander, shuffle, trundle? I definitely trundle. I walk almost every day,

and when it's time my husband always asks, are you ready to trundle? And sometimes when he's

being really funny, he will say, get ready to trundle! As if we're heading to something as exciting

as a wrestling match. Trundle the verb becomes from Trundle the noun, which first appeared in the

year 1564 to describe a trundle bed, because it referred to small wheels or rollers, and a trundle bed

is a bed on rollers that you can move around, often rolling it underneath another bed for storage,

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