Things I Am Not Clear On: Title Case in Headlines

Some things about copy-editing will always throw me. A personal failing: I have to look up any word with double letters, every single time. A cultural difference: The dictionary I used at most of the magazines I worked at, Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate, has different preferred spellings (and hyphenization) of some words than Webster’s New World, which we use here.

But then there’s the case of headlines. Here are the rules I learned:

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