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Aug.19.2010
The Chicago Manual of Style's new 16th edition is out, complete with updated style rules for book publishers and anyone else who follows this style. Some major style changes are here.
Per Chicago,
* web now takes a lowercase W, even though Internet and World Wide Web are still treated as proper...
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Sep.17.2009
I recently received a reader question that was so good I had to look it up. (I used to pride myself on being able to answer esoteric editorial questions on the spot, but it’s been a while since I’ve worked full time as an editor).
The Q: I would like to know why the copyright symbol is used with...
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Nov.24.2008
Here's an excerpt from a post today at AbsoluteWrite.com:
"I've recently been told it's wrong to start a sentence with numerals; i.e. "5235 Western Road was a big blue house..."
Who are these schmucks running around using the W word -- "wrong" -- and thereby messing with...
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Sep.10.2008
I do a lot of copy editing for publications that follow Los Angeles Times style, which is just a slight variation on AP style. More recently, I’ve begun copy editing publications that follow the Chicago Manual of Style.
A classic difference between them: AP says not to use the serial comma, or...
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Aug.13.2008
In the virtual world of the blogosphere there are those who suffer guilt over failure to blog. This despite evidence that the world manages to get along just fine without our daily contributions. I hear of this guilt about infrequency and irregularity, though, from my more gifted and committed...
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Jul.05.2008
Here are some style guides' "helpful" instructions on forming possessives of words ending in S. Behold pure evil!
Chicago Manual of StyleJames's words
James' sake
James's seat
Associated Press StylebookJames' words
James' sake
James' seatBUTThe boss's words
The boss' sake
The...
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