Posts Tagged ‘copy-editing corner’
Stylebook Change: No More “Listserv”!
Outi Tuomaala got in touch. Tuomaala works for L-Soft, which she says is the company that developed Listserv software. L-Soft is a little concerned.
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Copy-Editing Corner: When England Isn’t England
According to my American friend Elizabeth who now lives in the U.K....a noticeable difference between the level of care in the U.S. and British systems is the hospital ward. Here in the U.S. we're used to having "semi-private" rooms wherein two strangers are housed in adjacent beds in the same hospital room with curtains for privacy. In England, multiple patients are housed in an open ward with curtains for privacy. ---Kimberly Krautter, Huffington Post
And we have a system where the government basically creates such a top-down bureaucracy so that you end up rationing or have significant delays in health care, such as what happens in Canada or England. ---Sen. Judd Gregg
England! That other Eden, that precious stone set in a silver sea. Home to Brighton rock, two of my favorite music blogs (1) (2), and many famous men named Ronnie (1) (2) (3)! ALSO: not a synonym for "United Kingdom" or "Great Britain."
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Copy-Editing Corner: Are Bands “It”s or “They”s?
My blog item yesterday about media organizations axing copy editors and receptionists set off a firestorm of comments about whether musical groups should be referred to as singular or plural entities. OK, actually it was two people. OK, both people commented on my Facebook page, not here. But this does not mean I can't get another item out of it!
Both schools of thought have valid points. To wit:
