Macmillan Holdings, LLC. Grammar Girl, Grammar Girl's, QDnow, and Quick and Dirty Tips are all trademarks of Macmillan Holdings, LLC. Learn right choice in this and other tricky situations. Sally grammar WHOA FOR GRAMMER GIRL FOR WINNING THE AWARDS!! YEAH...:D http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/flammable-versus-inflammable.aspx?commentid=17046#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/flammable-versus-inflammable.aspx?commentid=17046#Comments Mon, 18 May 2009 22:35:53 GMT Gary grammar RE: Falling-outs. I'm trying to figure out these phrasal verbs and phrasal nouns. Our government is issuing "bailouts". but it "bailed out" AIG or "bailing out" GM. It seems to depend on usage? http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/flammable-versus-inflammable.aspx?commentid=16254#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/flammable-versus-inflammable.aspx?commentid=16254#Comments Thu, 26 Mar 2009 05:09:12 GMT Kris grammar Bwaha, I read Undead and Unwed. I was shocked when I found you talking about the series here. Great book. http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/flammable-versus-inflammable.aspx?commentid=15990#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/flammable-versus-inflammable.aspx?commentid=15990#Comments Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:57:47 GMT Karla Yenelie grammar You heard the 'Undead and Unwed' series? XD I have all of those books. The protagonist reminds me of an intelligent airhead, which is FUN. I just wanted to let you know that I love listening to this podcast. I recently discovered the podcast, and I will be recommending it to my friends. ^_^v http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/flammable-versus-inflammable.aspx?commentid=15910#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/flammable-versus-inflammable.aspx?commentid=15910#Comments Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:54:29 GMT KaliSulis grammar it seems to me that the plural of "falling out" would be fall outs? Is that just me? (oh and p.s. - i know the "melencoly" is not spelled that way the proper spelling was taken - at least in terms of email addresses) http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/flammable-versus-inflammable.aspx?commentid=15906#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/flammable-versus-inflammable.aspx?commentid=15906#Comments Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:38:18 GMT KaliSulis grammar it seems to me that the plural of "falling out" would be fall outs? Is that just me? (oh and p.s. - i know the "melencoly" is not spelled that way the proper spelling was taken - at least in terms of email addresses) http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/flammable-versus-inflammable.aspx?commentid=15905#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/flammable-versus-inflammable.aspx?commentid=15905#Comments Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:37:56 GMT SWB grammar When will "Undead and unplural" be released? http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/flammable-versus-inflammable.aspx?commentid=15900#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/flammable-versus-inflammable.aspx?commentid=15900#Comments Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:31:30 GMT John grammar GG: "linguists have groused about "flammable" in usage books ever since." I'm skeptical that linguists are the ones who have groused about this word in usage books. Most usage books aren't even written by linguists. http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/flammable-versus-inflammable.aspx?commentid=15876#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/flammable-versus-inflammable.aspx?commentid=15876#Comments Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:27:11 GMT Cybelle grammar Grammar Girl is a great marketer of very old well known grammar rules; updating very old material is not printworthy activity. http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/flammable-versus-inflammable.aspx?commentid=15875#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/flammable-versus-inflammable.aspx?commentid=15875#Comments Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:13:28 GMT Grammar Girl grammar I checked with a contact at the American Heritage Dictionary, and he said if there are two different spellings listed, their order reflects common usage. In other words, the spelling listed first is the one that is most commonly used. The caveat is that you never know when they updated the entry, so if common usage is changing rapidly, the entry could be outdated. http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/flammable-versus-inflammable.aspx?commentid=15872#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/flammable-versus-inflammable.aspx?commentid=15872#Comments Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:49:18 GMT Mon, 18 May 2009 22:35:53 GMT http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/flammable-versus-inflammable.aspx feedback@quickanddirtytips.com (Managing Editor) feedback@quickanddirtytips.com (Webmaster) en-us