NerdJoy: The Most Entertaining Grammar Podcast You'll Get Your Ears Around
The man who copyedits my column every week, David Yontz, has THE most entertaining podcast -- on grammar, believe it or not.

To tell you how fantastic and meticulous he is at correcting errors and calling out things that are unclear or don't quite make sense, I think of him as "SuperDave," because he seems to have X-ray vision for errors almost anybody else would miss. (I picture him tortured as he reads any document or newspaper, with the errors leaping out and pecking at him, because he sees the stuff almost nobody does.)

He also has a take on grammar and word use that is truly interesting -- he's interested in the why of everything, and lays it out in his podcast.

P.S. Regarding a pet peeve of Dave's that he lays out in the first podcast, I know when to use "if" versus "whether," but I break the rule on this with some frequency if it reads better -- especially if it's in dialogue. Dave's great about not being all fundy about my wanting to break the rules, usually weekly. I just love to know what's right before I decide to do the other thing, and he always tells me.

Here's the first of his podcasts.

And you can find all of them here, at alphabroadcast.com, with a new one every Thursday.

Believe me, I don't want any competition for earballs for my own radio show/podcast (be sure you listen to last week's on friendship with Dr. Irene S. Levine), but I had to recommend Dave's podcast because it's just so great.