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04/19/13 News Roundup
Featured Topic: Challenging WordsIn today’s News Roundup, we look at some (at best) mediocre corporate writing, Internet words such as hashtag and Copertino, and the problem of nonplussed.read more
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04/19/13 News Roundup
Featured Topic: Challenging WordsIn today’s News Roundup, we look at some (at best) mediocre corporate writing, Internet words such as hashtag and Copertino, and the problem of nonplussed.read more
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06/20/13 News Roundup
Featured Topic: Dictionary AdviceOne of the boons of online dictionaries is their ability to advise us more often on more topics. In today’s News Roundup: why should update your dictionary, some new...
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06/25/13 News Roundup
Featured Topic: Words to Love or HateAs you edit manuscripts, watch for unnecessary retronyms and old gang slang. Then find out where superman really comes from.read more
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08/22/13 News Roundup
Featured Topic: Ever-Changing WordsIf only words would stay in the neat boxes we try to place them in. Instead, they insist on jumping around, trying on other words’ meanings, and basically causing a...
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09/12/13 News Roundup
Featured Topic: Turgid WritingSome publications and writing styles suffer greatly from turgid prose. Today’s News Roundup offers a lesson in and some promise of clarity.read more
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Entitling Editors to Use "Titled"
In The Chicago Manual of Style’s September Q&A, one reader offered the phrase A poster authored with Smith entitled ‘Measuring …’ and asked whether entitled should be titled.Chicago’s editors...
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09/18/13 News Roundup
Featured Topic: WordsToday’s News Roundup is loaded with new words, from portmanteaus to jargon, copyeditors might be seeing in manuscripts.read more
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11/04/13 News Roundup
Featured Topic: Usable UsageLet’s start the week with something you can put to work today. In today’s News Roundup, a few lessons in English usage.read more
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11/12/13 News Roundup
Featured Topic: From Old to New WordsToday’s News Roundup features new words, old words transformed into new words, and the study of regional words.read more
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