Who Is Benjamin Dreyer on Science Rules! With Bill Nye?
Benjamin Dreyer is the copy chief at Random House and the author of Dreyer's English, a New York Times bestseller. On Science Rules! with Bill Nye, in the episode Language Rules!, he talks through how the rules of English apply and why some of those rules should change. The episode also takes a call from Allyson, who asks why the classic "i before e" rule barely applies, and it includes two Scripps National Spelling Bee Octochamps who went twenty rounds without a misspelling.
On this episode
- Who Is Benjamin Dreyer on Science Rules! With Bill Nye?
- What Is the Difference Between Editing and Copyediting
- What Brings So Much Satisfaction From Grammar
- Why Do Some Words Break the "i After E, Except After C" Rule
- Where Did the Hierarchy of Curse Words Come From
- Where Did the Singular Use of “they” Come From
- How Do Writers Avoid Using “they” as a Singular Pronoun
- Is It “a Historic” or “an Historic”
- Does Thinking About Nothing Make a Person Focus More During a Game or Event
- What Is One Rule That the Spelling Bee Champions Applied
- How Does Someone Spell a Word
- What Is Something That Breaks Grammatical Rules