Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing

Welcome to Grammar Girl's 20th anniversary extravaganza, Grammarpalooza, the game show.

I am Mignon Fogarty, and I'm so excited to be here with all of you.

I think language is fun, and I wanted to do a game show for many, many years.

So when we were thinking about how to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Grammar Girl podcast.

It was time.

It was time to do the game show.

You can hardly imagine how hard the team worked.

to make this possible holly hutchings stephen chapansky he's the only one of us who's ever done a game show before nat hoops has been running the music and sound effects especially rebecca sebastian who not only had the hardest job today but she has been um you know uh she handled the marketing she made all the slides and she essentially coordinated the whole thing so thank you so much rebecca And thanks to all of you who are here, all the guests.

And eventually, we usually resign ourselves to the fact that while all of those other options would be more accurate, the one that everyone will immediately recognize is GLP-1s.

As my colleague Mignon Fogarty, host of the Grammar Girl podcast on the Quick and Dirty Tips Network, knows all too well, language experts don't get to decide what words mean.

Much to the frustration of copy editors and, well, the French, words mean what we all agree that they mean.

And if we as a society consistently and persistently use a word incorrectly, that eventually becomes the correct usage.