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'If grammar is the skeleton of expression and usage the flesh and blood, then style is the personality.' Arthur Plotnick,(usage as to ability/disability, age, appearance, color, ethnicity/nationality, gender/sexuality, health, and bias)(confusables, mixed-up homonyms and homophones, word pairs, and common errors in word choice)(vs Canadian and Australian English, too)See also, in the section:.See also, in the section on Self-Publishing. (processes to understand if you self-publish). To begin with, the comma: If you are writing for magazines and newspapers, you will typically not use the serial comma (so it will be 'apples, oranges and bananas') but if you are writing for books you will (hence 'apples,oranges, and bananas'-see ). What's the best source for this kind of information on style & usage?

To extend and consolidate students’ knowledge of professional writing and editing for publication. Course content This course will offer students the opportunity to work on real life projects sourced from the university and the community.

Here are some of the staples of the editor's desk, American style (British style being different), especially the first three:FOR GENERAL PURPOSES:The styles clients, publishers, and authors may expect you to know (or have access to the style manual for) are primarily: Chicago, AP, APA, AMA, MLA, Microsoft, CBE/CSE., the dictionary most often used by professional editors., 17th Edition. The style Bible for trade (especially academic) books and some magazines, and many professional copyeditors use the.

It's a style 'guide,' not a rule book, and the rules may be relaxed in particular for editing fiction and books containing dialogue, in which what you want to do is convey a speaker's style, not correctness. Free, online: and and and. (Stefan Fatsis, New Yorker, 1-30-15) Oxford's junior dictionaries are removing words like 'almond,' 'acorn,' and 'moss' to make room for words like “blog,” “chatroom,” “database.'

(Goodbye, nature.) (Even today at The New Yorker, Webster’s Second, first published in 1934, is preferred to Webster’s Third—though, now in its eleventh edition, is consulted before either.)'. (aka the AP Stylebook ) is standard for publication style in newspapers and some magazines). The holds up better than the paperback.

Each revision brings surprises. For example, addresses language about gender and about addition, advising to 'avoid words like abuse, problem, addict and abuser in most uses.” John McIntyre felt. The blog compares Associated Press style and Chicago style. If you learn from taking tests, consider (Kindle, 28 pages).

(3rd ed., 2009, updated to cover online sources). The guide for scholarly publishing (especially citations). (Bryan A. Garner, 4th edition). Was Not sure which of two words is appropriate in a given context? Go to Garner. An excellent gift to a wordsmith.

Helpful Language-Change Index. Get 4th edition (2016). SeeCopyeditors' review. (ed. Jeremy Butterfield) The new improved 4th edition.

See (WSJ, 1-20-17) 'After completing the Concise Oxford Dictionary, Henry Watson Fowler suggested to Oxford University Press doing a dictionary that would leave out the obvious words and instead concentrate on those that were confusing and inexact as well as on troubling idioms and obsolete rules.Fowler was magisterial and commonsensical, immensely knowledgeable and understatedly witty, a grammatical moralist whose hatred of humbug made him a moralist on the side of good sense.' . by Thomas S. Kane.Also useful:., 3rd Edition (how a book is put together, supplements Chicago). Very useful; last updated in 1974. (online style guide). (or anything) by Theodore M.

Bernstein, including,If budget allows, consider subscribing to. American(and Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand)spelling, vocabulary, and style. (Oxford Dictionaries). There are also variations within British style-e.g., (Oxford on -ize, -ise, or -yse?).

And see. (Jess McHugh, Paris Review, 3-30-18) To distinguish American from British English, Webster adopted new spellings: 'color' for 'colour,' 'mimic' for 'mimick,' etc. The politics and commerce of dictionary-making!. (Oxford Dictionaries). (Lynne Murphy, Aces: The Society for Editing, 4-28-18) 'Given the many differences between American and British English, the way in which American and British editors edit is no doubt different as well.

One difference? American editors edit in favor of rules, while British editors edit in favor of voice. American editors have a written set of rules, while British editors do not. Murphy is the author of. (Wikipedia). (Wikipedia) and. Sensible explanations of British punctuation (under P).

'The Economist had finally let go of its restriction on not splitting infinitives,' but see (Erin Brenner, Copyediting, 7-13-18). 'Style to be good must be clear. Clearness is secured by using words that are current and ordinary.' Pronunciation guides and dictionaries. gives both British and American pronunciation, for ESL students (e.g., type in 'liaison' ). (Wikipedia's very interesting page!). (focus on British pronunciation; if American is different, gives both).

(pronunciation in many foreign languages). (NLS online guide to pronunciation of commercial names and acronyms that may be encountered when narrating print material for audio transcription - from The National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped). See (see.

(especially those tough foreign names you see in newspapers). (it's CLEH muh tis, not Cle MAH tis, for clematis). (the names of the ancient gods and goddesses - for English speakers). (Net Ministries).To find pronunciation of words in foreign languages, do a search for, say, 'pronunciation in German'. (this particular link is to the top 10 words, including doge, draught, Naphtali, joie de vivre, charcuterie). Some pronunciations, including marijuana, a little odd. ( Maeve Maddox, Daily Writing Tips).

Here's #21: forte – English has two words spelled this way. One comes from Italian and the other from French. The Italian word, a musical term meaning “loud,” is pronounced with two syllables: /FOR-TAY/. The French word, an adjective meaning “strength” or “strong point,” is pronounced with one syllable: /FORT/. (Appalachian Magazine, 11-9-18). Diversity style and media guides (usage as to ability/disability, age, appearance, color, ethnicity/nationality, gender/sexuality, health, and bias).

(Center for Integration and Improvement of Journalism, Journalism Department, San Francisco State University) To help media professionals cover a complex, multicultural world with accuracy, authority, and sensitivity. (Karen Yin) In one place: style guides covering terminology for various communities and links to key articles debating usage. 'We study words so that they can become tools instead of unwitting weapons.' Sections focused on Ability + Disability; Age; Appearance; Ethnicity + Nationality; Gender, Sex + Sexuality; Health; Othering; and more.LGBTQ style and media guides. National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association (NLGJA). (PDF, download free).

GLAAD rewrites the script for LGBT acceptance. (a short guide, from Neutrois.com).

(UCDavis, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual Resource Center). (a wiki). For a list of international gender-neutral pronouns, see the entry on.

(Farhad Manjoo, NY Times, 7-10-19) The singular “they” is inclusive and flexible, and it breaks the stifling prison of gender expectations. Let’s all use it.

(Alex KapitanDisabilities style and media guides. (online, free, National Center on Disability and Journalism, NCDJ) General, physical disability, visually impaired, hearing impaired, mental and cognitive disability/seizure disorders. See also and (information and technical assistance on the Americans with Disabilities Act, U.S. Grammar and style books for writerswho wince at the idea of grammarand for popular reading'Grammar is a piano I play by ear.' Joan Didion 'Texting has reduced the number of waste words, but it has also exposed a black hole of ignorance about traditional-what a cranky guy would call correct-grammar.'

Richard Corliss. by Rodney Huddleston and Geoffrey K. Pullum ($119 to $419 used, 1860 pages, for those who want 'an understanding of how English grammar as a whole works, and of what the facts of usage really are'-'aims to 'outline and illustrate the principles that govern the construction of words and sentences.without recommending or condemning particular usage choices'-in short, both grammar and linguistics, but not particularly about usage.

Not easy reading but may be of interest to editors who want a more deeply informed understanding of English grammar. By the same authors:. by Karen Elizabeth Gordon-good, amusing explanations keep you reading and illustrate grammatical principles in passing. In a similar vein, and by the same author:. by Harold Evans, a better-than-average guide to writing better, and he. by Lynne Truss (British-style grammar and humor).

by William Strunk and E.B. White (aka Strunk & White), considered a great primer on clear writing by many, and a bad influence on grammar by others-e.g., by Geoffrey K.Pullum (Chronicle of Higher Education, 4-17-09). See this (by Jennifer Balderama) of Mark Garvey's book. (examples of terrible English, often on Japanese signs and packages). and by Bill Walsh (Washington Post copy editor - two words, AP Style - Walsh explains reasoning behind rules, so you can see when it's okay to break them).

by Mark Lester and Larry Beason (required reading for at least one copyediting course, useful partly for correct and incorrect examples of sentences, with explanations). by Bas Aarts, Sylvia Chalker, Edmund Weiner. Web URLs appear on. by Roy Peter Clark, author of. He captures essences in a few words.

by Mignon Fogarty, author of. See also Fogarty's shorter, more focused, titles: (know the difference between purposely and purposefully, hilarious and hysterical, affect and effect?); (for those who want to learn some new 50-cent words, as Twain would call them);. Some of her works are available as ebooks. by Michael Swan and Catherine Walter (too few exercises for an ESL text, but good explanations and illustrations for teachers and ESL students).

by Claire Kehrwald Cook (full of examples of bad sentences and how to improve them). by Andrea Sutcliffe. by Rebecca Elliott (part of a series that includes (Jeffrey Strausser), (Michael Greenberg), (Mary Elizabeth)-a series for junior and senior high school students. (Canadian, articles and quizzes on grammar, punctuation, mechanics, usage and clarity).

by Richard C. Exercises after each chapter help readers get the point. by Steven Pinker. An article adapted from the book is available online: (WSJ, 9-25-14). 'The 'curse of knowledge' leads writers to assume their readers know everything they know').

by Constance Hale, and (on the power of verbs). by Patrica T. O'Conner. by Barbara Wallraff, author of the popular Atlantic Monthly column, the language maven who wittily establishes rules for turns of phrase, slang, name usage, punctuation, newly coined vocabulary - e.g., is it 'a historical' or 'an historical'? How long does someone have to be dead before you stop calling her 'the late' etc.Related titles. by Ammon Shea, author of.

Here he looks at language “mistakes” and how they came to be accepted as correct—or not. Consider: Hopefully, that/which, enormity, bemuse, amuse, OMG, stupider. Listen to his interview on NPR.

by Mary Norris, long-time editor at the New Yorker. “A delightful mix of autobiography, New Yorker lore, and good language sense.”Ben Yagoda. A large database of structural (phonological, grammatical, lexical) properties of languages gathered from descriptive materials (such as reference grammars) by a team of 55 authors. Grammar not-light. by Rosemarie Ostler. by Martha Brockenbrough, whose blog will make you chuckle: (Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar).

Robert Lane Greene, for NPR, recommends by John McWhorter; by Jack W. Lynch; and by H. Fowler and David Crystal, an update of the classic by a linguist.' Encourage children to write their own stories, and then don't rain on their parade. Don't say, 'That's not true.'

Applaud flights of fantasy. Help with spelling and grammar, but stand up and cheer the use of imagination.' Gail Carson Levine. Citation and Reference Styles(various resources on footnotes, endnotes, documentation)Standards for citation differ somewhat different between trade and academic publishing.

Citations for trade books are a bit more relaxed (the assumption being perhaps that people are reading for interest, not as part of research to be further cited). (links to key style-guide sites, a few bibliography generators, and other resources useful in academia). (Chicago Manual, CMOS Shop Talk, 5-4-17). (Cathy Hannabach and Sarah Grey, ACES, 4-26-19) The Chicago Manual of Style (the bible for book copyeditors) has released its 17th edition.

CMS is retiring ibid., the abbreviation (short for Latin ibidem, or “in the same place”) used to tell readers that the endnote or footnote they’re looking at refers to the same source as the previous note. Has confused generations of young readers. Now: use shortened citations on repeats. Some of us oldies will miss Ibid. 'Incipit' endnotes (or 'blind' endnotes). These endnotes found at the end of some narrative nonfiction, keyed to short phrases (or 'incipits'), don't use the superscript footnote number to call out 'here's the source.'

Publishers resist them because they are labor-intensive for author, editor, and typesetter. They are strictly source citations (no additional text), and usually there is some signal in the text as to the source (the name of author quoted, 'one newspaper reported,' etc.). Why use them? You don't clutter the text with superscripts, yet you provide the source information. (Thanks to Gary Rosen for that explanation.). (MIT Libraries). Copyediting also recommends checking out.

See also (Good Citations). However, in November 2018 a reader writes: 'I recommend instead of Easybib, Bibme, or Citation Machine, because they were all bought up by Chegg Inc.

And are heavily plastered with ads., on the other hand, is ad-free, doesn't require registration, and was recommended in the October issue of Chicago Educational. (Erin Brenner, Copyediting, 1-6-17).

(Princeton University) Literary styles (MLA), Psychology (APA), History (CMS), Biology (various styles). (Erin Brenner, Copyediting, 5-5-15). (8th edition, 2016) Updated for the digital era, the new MLA style proposes a universal set of guidelines for citing any type of source. MLA members can and order additional copies at a 30% discount!.

(Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles Review of Books) In creating this new edition, we took the opportunity to put all of the rules aside and imagine how we’d create an entirely new style today, from the ground up. And the result is a much slimmed-down, much friendlier guide that establishes a set of general principles for creating documentation and then explains their application in a wide range of ways. More like a set of natural practices through which scholars can help organize the often unruly publications by which we are increasingly surrounded.' . (UAB Libraries, links to sites for information on different citation styles). 'Perma.cc a service that helps scholars, courts and others create web citation links that will never break.

Perma.cc prevents link rot.' . (Erin Brenner, Copyediting, 3-17-15). 'How to mash up different citation formats to fit an odd duck in your citation list.' .

(Erin Brenner, Copyediting, 3-24-15) How to create a citation style from scratch. (Richard Adin, The Business of Editing, An American Editor, 5-6-15) Charging per page of footnotes and using macros may increase your hourly earnings proofing or copyediting citations.

(Bluebook Law Review). (Writersandeditors.com) A guide to macros, which are simple programs that allow you, with a few keystrokes, to automate tedious search-and-replace tasks and other mind-numbing chores.

The computer does the boring tasks while you focus on the content. (Erin Brenner, Copyediting, 4-28-15) A copyeditor's responsibilities regarding citations and an explanation of macros. 'Services like JSTOR, PubMed, and the Library of Congress Online Catalog can help you fill in any missing information that the bibliography services can’t.' Available bibliography services include:- (Editorium)- (a mobile app that takes a barcode scan and emails you a citation)-teenagers for hire. (Dawn McIlvain Stahl, Copyediting, 7-8-14). Auto-generated bibliographies have come a long way-Stahl reviews available resources. (informED, Open College, links to material related to four main style guides for academic writing: MLA.

Chicago). University of Minnesota crib sheet on American Psychological Association style. (Purdue/OWL on American Psychological Association style on citations). (University of Wisconsin Writing Center). (Online Education Database). (Cornell University Library links to guides for citing sources and to citation tools.

(MIT Libraries) The MIT Libraries support EndNote, Zotero, and Mendeley. Which program is right for you? Some things to think about when you choose. Excellent comparison chart.

(Blogging.com). ONLINE DICTIONARIES AND DICTIONARY-STYLE REFERENCES (Both General and Specialized)Do not assume that a reference work is good because it's called Webster's or Roget's. Those labels are public domain now, so anyone can use them., now with 1,000 more words. See story: (James Sullivan, Boston Globe, 2-14-17).

Abbreviations, acronyms, and initialisms, by category.— to find what an acronym, abbreviation, or initialism stands for. An acronym is a string of initial letters pronounced as a word — e.g., NATO, EPCOT. With an initialism (BBC, PBS), each letter is pronounced separately.

For a great explanation of the complexities of acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms, look at this, at the end of which are links to more acronym databases. See also (a guide to U.S. Government acronyms and abbreviations) and (a searchable database). (1,250 entries and 10,000 examples of prefixes, suffixes, combining forms and infixes-the four types of affixes that appear in English).

See for example the. Editing and proofreading marks:. (Chicago Manual of Style Online). (PDF, SUNY).

(explained, California State University, Chico). (John Wiley. (English Teachers' Friend). (University of Chicago Style Manual). (EEI)(Subversive Copy Editor, 7-5-10)(Sally Fisher Saller, the Subversive Copy Editor, in Prime Number)Dictionaries, clarity, and the Supreme Court:. (Nina Totenberg, NPR's Morning Edition, 6-13-11, audio and transcript). Worth reading for the concluding anecdote alone.

by Adam Liptak (NY Times 6-13-11). (Edelweiss Arnold, The Publishing Training Centre, 2-23-12). Yes, for consistency. Advice here on what to include. ed. Gerald Gross. (Bruce Ross-Larson's brief manual, good for technocrats who need to learn to trim their own verbal flab and write briefly).

by Elsie Myers Stanton. by Jeff Deck and Benjamin D.

Herson. by Claire Kehrwald Cook (out of print, but you can buy used copies). (ACES discussion on how the copyeditor's role is changing. What are we now? Content editors (ugh). Reader advocates?

The people who make messages clear, online or off? We have to perform on multiple platforms. Preparing your manuscript. (Subversive Copy Editor, 7-5-10).

For example, Chicago now prefers web, website, web page with a lowercase w, but World Wide Web and Internet. (Adrienne Montgomerie, Copyediting, 2-12-18) Spellcheck Settings: Language, Style, and Display- (12-14-15)- (2-19-18) Running spellcheck, readability statistics, rerunning spellcheck. 'Telling Word to “recheck the document” will make it forget all the misspellings you told it to ignore previously, giving you a chance to recheck them. Note that any words you “added” previously will remain in the dictionary.' - (2-26-18) Customizing dictionaries, importing custom dictionaries, using multiple dictionaries. A Web exhibit of the various manuscript drafts of Ellen Raskin's Newbery Medal-winning novel, plus sample pages from the page and jacket design process (thanks to Harold Underdown for this link!).

(links to many excellent explanations, essays, and how-to articles)., testing knowledge in many subject areas. (prepared by Pam Nelson, also called Triangle Grammar Guide Quizzes). (Harvard Business Review). (excellent series of New York Times quizzes). (William Allen White School of Journalism)., Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation. (Sylvia Stead, Globe and Mail, 8-24-18) A challenging grammar quiz. (active learning exercises).

(CCC). (Dr. Kristi Siegel). (Cengage Learning). (City University of Seattle).

(exercises to do on your own to improve your grammar, punctuation, spelling, sentence structure, sentence style, and number writing-plus when to paraphrase, not plagiarize!), from Purdue's excellent Online Writing Lab., including these. (St. Albans School, punctuation, parts of speech, clauses, diagramming, verb tenses, practice exercises). The expected order of adjectivesAdjectives in English, according to Mark Forsyth, “absolutely have to be in this order: opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose Noun. So you can have a lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife.

But if you mess with that order in the slightest you’ll sound like a maniac.” Mark Forsyth,. Others disagree with the order, giving examples such as 'big bad wolf' (size, opinion, noun). See, for example, (Matthew Anderson, Language Log, 9-3-16). French students are taught that the number of syllables may affect the order, and that a more subjective adjective precedes a more objective syllable ('depressing old tax collector'). Search for 'royal order of adjectives' and find a handy chart reproduced in several places, showing the order to be: Determiners (articles and other limiters, such as 'four' or 'several'); observation or opinion ('expensive,' 'genuine'), physical description (size, shape, age, color, in that order), origin (French, Thai), material (copper, wooden), qualifier (basketball, as in basketball court; wedding, as in wedding dress), and noun (cat, mirror). Mignon Fogarty, Grammar Girl, (opinion, size, age, shape, color, origin, material, and purpose, or OSASCOMP), emphasizing that there are many exceptions, some of which depend on what 'sounds right.

See also (Cassie Werber, Quartz, 9-7-16). Werber gives examples of how commas are often omitted between adjectives when they are in that particular order (e.g., 'a tall young man,' 'an old Russian song,' 'an old white cotton shirt.'

. (Peter Selgin on Jane Friedman's blog, 4-25-18) 'With modifiers, you want to choose your battles. Just because every noun offers itself up for modification(s) doesn’t mean you should modify it. By serving some nouns plain, you give more distinction to those you embellish.

Think of adjectives as ketchup or hot sauce; put it on everything and it quickly wears out its welcome.' (Geoff Nunberg, Language Log, 1-1-13). What happens when you pedantically apply a grammar rule to 'big data.' (from the very helpful Get It Write site). Here are and there is a.(Mark Liberman, Language Log, 12-23-12)Would you correct this (for grammar)? (Mark Liberman, Language Log, on 'Write Like Me' 7-24-09). Hyphenating compounds and other common usage problems.

(Pat McNees, a quiz-based survey of appropriate hyphenation, Grammar Corner). (Rich Adin, An American Editor, 10-21-13) Adin particularly discusses short term, long term, custom built, and decision making. Are you using hyphens for dashes in your manuscripts? The Importance of PunctuationDear John, (version 1)I want a man who knows what love is all about. You are generous, kind, thoughtful.

People who are not like you admit to being useless and inferior. You have ruined me for other men. I yearn for you. I have no feelings whatsoever when we're apart. I can be forever happy - will you let me be yours?GloriaDear John, (version 2)I want a man who knows what love is. All about you are generous, kind, thoughtful people, who are not like you.

Admit to being useless and inferior. You have ruined me. For other men, I yearn. For you, I have no feelings whatsoever. When we're apart, I can be forever happy. Will you let me be?Yours,Gloria. THE RIGHT (AND WRONG) WORDS — Confusables, Mixed-Up Homonyms and Homophones, Word Pairs, and Other Errors in Diction.

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(Michael Quinion's World Wide Words on everything from ab- (off, away, or from) to zygo- (joining or pairing) to zym(o)- (enzymes or fermentation). See (for different categories of thought or study-just check it out!). (a single word that has meanings that contradict each other). Sometimes called contronyms.

and (Fun with Words), the latter also known as (Ellis, words that contradict themselves). (with pronunciation!). (an Oatmeal diagram). (Wikipedia).

Boston.com word columnists. If you're just learning to edit (or write properly), start with this clear and charming site/book. Here are the, also available as a, and as a book: See also. (Brians, who has retired from teaching at Washington State University, prefers the possessive form Brians' to Brians's.). (Oxford Dictionaries).

(born out of Language Log), an evidence-based collection of misused words that stem from a mishearing but still manage to make sense, such as eggcorn for acorn, and 'tough road to hoe.' ., freely searchable, the largest corpus of American English currently available.

Created by Mark Davies of BYU. See and including. Type two keywords and click on the 'Fight' button. The winner is the one which gets the biggest number of results on Google. Try it with 'organize' and 'organise.'

. (lots of useful entries on confusable and misused words, including and (e.g., glamour vs. Glamor, percent vs. Per cent, Crayfish, crawfish, crawdad, etc. See.

(AskOxford.com). (Benjamin Dreyer, VP Executive Managing Editor & Copy Chief of Random House Publishing Group, on Bioibgraphile's Good Prose Month, 1-10-13). (Alex Beam, Opinion, NY Times, 4-29-13). (on Misused Words). (Arika Okrent, Mental Floss). (Infoplease).

(Mark Memmott, NPR, 6-1-15). For example, 'expresso' for 'espresso,' 'Heimlich remover' instead of 'Heimlich maneuver.' . (BBC Magazine).

Handy grammar quiz hosted by Staples. Great promotion idea. ( John Rains, ACES). Homonyms, homophones, and homographs.

(except those are really 'homophones'). See also. (English Zone)., for linguists and language buffs. (Erin Brenner, Copyediting, 2-17-15). She also refers us to sites listing (mishearings of a popular phrase or song lyric).

And (for acorns). See also (fun with words) and (Your Dictionary).

(excellent distinctions and fine points). (blog category on DailyWritingTips). (on CCC's very practical learning site). (Erin Brenner, Copyediting, on a lot/alot, all ready/already, all together/altogether, all ways/always, anyone/any one, a while/awhile, every day/everyday, may be/maybe, some day, someday, straight forward/straightforward, under way/underway, up on/upon. (Oxford Dictionaries). See, for example,.

(Grammarbook.com, a site with many free or subscription quizzes). by David Skinner. James Kelly's review in the Wall Street Journal talks about how Webster's Third dictionary sparked a national debate about which words were acceptable and which were 'illiterate.' Many word people still mourn the lost of Webster's II, which let you know which choices were preferable!. (Philip Hensher, LitHub, 6-25-19) Food for thought. (Jonathon Owen, Visual Thesaurus, 3-19-13).

Which do you use: toward or towards? Is 'towards' British English or American English? Owen may give editors pause.

'Red Cap' Herschel Weiner takes on Coca Cola's misuse of a word in its Dasani commercial. (Pat McNees, Grammar Corner). Spellcheckers reveal many errors, but they fail to detect wrong words that sound almost right. Circle the incorrect words. (Louise Harnby, Proofreader's Parlour, 1-24-16) Be sure to read the comments, with additional tips. Macros may take getting used to. (Jim Romenesko, 3-20-13).

(a public radio program about language examined through history, culture, and family - this entry explaining difference between orchard and grove). (Emily Alpert, Los Angeles Times, 7-3-12).

by Barbara McNichol (2nd edition, Kindle). Some word pairs on (in 'word tripper' category).

) - a place to linger with such features as and WWW's,which features words in the news, weird words, new(ish) words, old words, words people ask questions about, and even the occasional grovelling correction. From the AP Stylebook. (Andy Hollandbeck,Copyediting, 6-6-18) Dream Act vs.

DACA; immigrants, migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees; avoid 'chain migration.' . by Dave Dowling. (Jon Winokur, Los Angeles Times, 2-11-07) Sacha Baron Cohen gets it; Alanis Morissette doesn't.'

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Languages certainly do follow rules, but they don't follow orders.' - @PeterSokolowski. FOR EDITORS, MAINLY'No matter what we're editing, the goal should be minimal changes for maximum results. Prefer the scalpel to the hatchet whenever possible.' Erin Brenner, Copyediting(NY Times). See also the, more generally about the newsroom.(followed by books on design and on indexing)(a newsletter and job board, pricey but good) and (the free new Copyediting blog)(CELery listserv, subscribe, free, excellent for getting the opinions of others on editing quandaries). Started by Beth Goelzer Lyons and Carol Roberts, it numbers 2000+ members (many of whom merely lurk).

See also on Facebook.by Amy Einsohn (with exercises and answer keys)(KOK Edit, Katharine O'Moore-Klopf). by Tom Burnham (1975; available used). Four blog posts by Sue Littleford, Society for Editors and Proofreaders (SfEP), Part 1. The internet leads to the blurring of the boundaries between all the world’s Englishes-leading to mob rule in English. There never was a rule book but the style guide assumes more importance.

And she considers the Oxford, or serial, comma.(a Facebook group)by Steve Dunhamed. Edition (38 essays on the evolution of the American editor; the ethical and moral dimensions of editing; what an editor looks for in a query letter, proposal, and manuscript; line editing; copyediting; the freelance editor; the question of political correctness; making the most of writers’ conferences, and so on)(Linda Aragoni, You Can Teach Writing)(Wichita Eagle, language tips from the copy desk) and @grammarmoneys(Visual Thesaurus)(WriteWords)(online, Exploring the Origins of Quotations). Also on and on.(monthly bulletin of Paul R. Martin, stylebook editor at the Wall Street Journal)(KOK Edit). Save time and sign up to follow the tweeters on Katharine O'Moore-Klopf's lists of good Twitter feeds. By category: Health and medicine, news media, science resources, scientists, freelancing resources, and edit-Long-Islanders.(Maxine C.

Hairston, adapted from by Maxine Hairston and Michael Keene). 'Changing the world one apostrophe at a time.'

Shapiro. (addictive). Type in a word or phrase and out pops a chart tracking its popularity in books. Want to spend/waste more time? See or follow (Cultural Observatory at Harvard). See. (Sarah Rose Sharp, Hyperallergic, 9-30-18) Now lazy college students can meet their page counts a lot more easily.

(Benjamin Kentish, Independent UK, 4-3-17) Mystery man has been helping grocers with their apostrophes since 2003. He made an eight-foot-long tool he calls an “apostrophiser.” ‘Open Monday’s to Friday’s’ and Amy’s Nail’s and Cambridge Motor’s needed editing. “There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk the earth.” Anthony Burgess. ' The road to hell is paved with adverbs.' Stephen King. (John Rauschenberg, McSweeney's, 11-20-17). (Clark Whelton, City Journal, Winter 2011) 'Can I, like, pick you up?'

Starting in about 1985 this use of 'like' started invading the language. 'All her answers sounded like questions. Several other students did the same thing, ending declarative sentences with an interrogative rise. Something odd was happening. Was it guerrilla grammar?'

(Boing Boing, 10-31-17). (Mike Dikk, Runt of the Web, 12-17-15) Google 'headline fail' and you'll get plenty more examples. (ShotDead in the Head website). Funny and often naughty slogans, such as 'I'm not an alcoholic. Alcoholics go to meetings.'

. 'Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity ignorance, incompetence.' - adage known as. (Tom Freeman, The Stroppy Editor, with apologies to Gilbert & Sullivan). Apropos grammarians, you may enjoy Lisa McLendon's blog post.

Joke for editors: The past, the present and the future walked into a bar. It was tense. Adam Haslett on Stanley Fish (Slate, from Financial Times, 1-23-11), on whether in following Strunk & White's injunction to write succinctly we haven't lost something. (Gene Weingarten, Washington Post, 9-19-10). 'In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.' Thomas Jefferson.'

When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them-then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together.

They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get rid of as any other vice.' Mark Twain, Letter to D.

Bowser, 3/20/1880, on a fabulous site,. by Jeff Deck and Benjamin D. Herson. (signs with grammar errors, Huffington Post slideshow).

in Chicago and Ian Chillag's piece (NPR). and what Zachary M. Seward has to say about that list on.

(Ben Zimmer's tribute to the late William Safire and his language column in the New York Times). Here's Safire's. 'You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you. And we edit to let the fire show through the smoke.' Arthur Plotkin, author of The Elements of Editing. Read, the legend of Fleet Street, then scroll down and read read a reprint of the classic column in which, more than 20 years ago, he launched the Association for the Abolition of the Aberrant Apostrophe. To quote from that: 'The AAAA has two simple goals.

Its first is to round up and confiscate superfluous apostrophes from, for example, fruit and vegetable stalls where potato's, tomatoe's and apple's are openly on sale.' Its second is to redistribute as many as possible of these impounded apostrophes, restoring missing apostrophes where they have been lost, mislaid or deliberately hijacked - as for instance by British Rail, which as part of its refurbishment programme is dismantling the apostrophes from such stations as King's Cross and shunting them off at dead of night to a secret apostrophe siding at Crewe.' . Michelle Pauli asks poets for their most hated words, in. Which are yours? Read the comments!. and other headlines to make you smile or wince (favorites: Man Struck By Lightning: Faces Battery Charge.

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Red Tape Holds Up New Bridges. Typhoon Rips Through Cemetery; Hundreds Dead.

Hospitals are Sued by 7 Foot Doctors. Local High School Dropouts Cut in Half).' Abandon hopefully all ye who enter here.' . (a blog). (Patricia T.

O'Conner and Stewart Kellerman, on the Op Ed page of the Times, advising then-President Obama to stop saying things like “a very personal decision for Michelle and I”). (excellent resource). 'Indian' or 'Native American'? '.most of the time we use the term 'Native American' to describe the first inhabitants of this continent.

Sometimes, however, we use the term 'Indian. ' While most scholars prefer to use Native American most of the time, sometimes the term 'Indian' is more appropriate. Native Americans sometimes use the term 'Indian' or 'American Indian' to describe themselves. We often use terms like 'Indian schools' or 'Indian officials' for two reasons: one, because that is the language people at the time used, both Native Americans and whites, and two, these things are also often proper names or titles, as in the case of 'Holy Childhood Indian School' or the 'Bureau of Indian Affairs.' (Snopes.com)Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm.

Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.Or: According to a researcher (sic) at Cambridge University, it doesn't matter in what order the letters in a word are, the only important thing is that the first and last letter be at the right place. The rest can be a total mess and you can still read it without problem. This is because the human mind does not read every letter by itself but the word as a whole.of Cambridge University's Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit explains the origins of the letter-transposition example.

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