Grammar Girl here. I'm in Yon Fogarty and unless you are a brand new listener and if you

are, welcome. But if you aren't, you're probably wondering why the show is out on a Tuesday.

Well after 16 years of releasing the show on Thursday night, we're switching to Tuesday.

There's no huge reason except that it fits better with all the other things on my plate,

like writing the email newsletter and producing the YouTube video that goes with the show every week.

I'm actually hoping I can take weekends off now and I hope the new day works for you too.

So this, my friends, is a bonus show to fill in the gap between the last Thursday show and the next regular Tuesday show.

And I thought it might be fun to pull together some tips from my email newsletter because I've been putting

a lot more effort into it the last six months or so and there's really a lot there. First, we'll go through some of the short tips

and then I'll tell you about all the neat things I recommend from favorite social media posts to products I particularly liked.

And at the end, we'll still have a family act story, even though those don't appear in the newsletter.

Back in October, I had a tip about the word index, which has two florals.

Index came to English from Latin, so the original plural was the Latin form indices.

Over the years, people started making it plural in the more standard English way by adding ES indexes.

Today, indexes is the more common form and is used when referring to more than when book index or stock index, for example.

The market tanked. All the indexes were down today.

Indices is still sometimes used in the sciences, however.

Super script and subscript numbers in mathematics are referred to as indices, for example.

In each case, the sum of the indices is 26.

Also in October, I talked about the difference between sneaked and snuck.

The British are sticking with sneaked as the past tense of sneak, but Americans have largely accepted snuck as an alternative

or even preferred form.

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