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Why I Lay Low
At last the Onion exposes this ongoing dispute.
4 Copy Editors Killed In Ongoing AP Style, Chicago Manual Gang Violence
AP Style, or Chicago Manual?
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No Balling Babies!
The word is “bawl.” If you’re “balling like a baby” then these officers would like to have a word with you. Thanks you, Fake AP Stylebook
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It’s a Site for Sore Eyes.
I can’t believe someone gets paid to do this.
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The Smell of Someone’s Colon, and Other Misspellings
I do think “mental pause” has value. It’s certainly not limited by age or sex.
More Here
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And I thought I could be pedantic!
The people on the Editorial Freelancers Assn. forum have spent a couple weeks now debating the grammar of a PUN!
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Ben Zimmer’s Page – worth a look
Here is an interesting site I just came across. Ben Zimmer, language columnist, writes about new words, slang, and word routes.
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Quiz for Writers
What kind of writer are you? Pick your preferred synonym and see.
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I would like all the people who self-publish to stop saying they have a book published and start saying they have had a book printed.
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