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- It's hard to set standards for use of the hyphen, because practices and preferences vary widely
- In their zeal to be precise, copy editors can adopt false precision.
- A tasty dish of black-eyed peas for good luck in the year to come.
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- Who decided that young people had to be called "youth"?
- People who earn academic doctorates are also called "doctor."
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- It's not enough to know why bad writing is bad; you have to understand why good writing is good.
- Before you write "conclave," make sure you know what it means
- Know when your commas are helping you and when you're wasting punctuation.
- Here are a few little things to keep in mind before you share your text with the world
- "One who" and "one of those who" are different animals
- The prejudice against "hopefully" as a sentence adverb survives, but it is fading
- A review of Rob Reinalda's 'Why Editors Drink'
- You would like editors if you got to know them
- The change in "reticent" to mean "reluctant" is a semantic shift that is not going away.
- Where you place prepositional phrases in a sentence can come back to bite you.
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- There is more to begging the question than a logical fallacy.
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- Many writers forget what their subject was by the time they arrive at their verb
- Dictionary panic ensued when someone found Merriam-Webster had included 'irregardless'
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- Some niceties to observe for college graduates
- Pray try to keep "anti-Christ" and 'Antichrist' straight
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- Better to look at what actually works in the language than what some people think is 'correct'
- Copy editors may look for a lot of little things, but the little things add up