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Title: Don't Quit Your Day Job, Podcasters - Business Week Post by: Mark David on April 18, 2007, 05:11:11 AM Grammar Girl hit it big, but so far few others have been able to make the shows pay. Listening to Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing, one of the Web's most popular independent podcasts, isn't the chore you might imagine. For 5 to 8 minutes each week, host Mignon Fogarty soothingly guides listeners around the pitfalls of common grammatical usage. Worried about when to use the word bad vs. badly? No problem. Yet even as you're taking in advice about whether split infinitives are acceptable (they are, she contends), it's hard not to wonder why you voluntarily took a seat at your fifth grade desk again. Or, more important, why you didn't think of doing this show yourself.
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