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909. In honor of 2023, we’ll talk about writing dates. And then we talk about a fascinating study about how COVID has changed the way we think about certain words.

| Transcript:  https://grammar-girl.simplecast.com/episodes/writing-dates/transcript

COVID Words Segment

• Written by Valerie Fridland. 
• Reference: Kleinman D, Morgan AM, Ostrand R, Wittenberg E (2022) Lasting effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on language processing. PLoS ONE 17(6): e0269242.

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