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Monthly Archives: August 2011
Word Nerd Wednesday
Here’s a roundup of my favorite language-related stories, brought to you by the pipes of the Internet. Ben Zimmer meditates on The Beatles’ use of pronouns in The New York Times. Really? Bubble Wrap is a trademark? Here are twenty-four … Continue reading
Posted in copy editing, grammar, in the news, literature
Tagged book covers, David Bowie, literature, pop culture, Shakespeare, trademarked products, vocabulary
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Simply dashing part two: the en dash
In part two of this series, we have reached the middle of our longest to shortest dash/hyphen set. The en dash: not quite an em dash, not quite a hyphen, and not quite as useful as either. I’m really selling … Continue reading
Posted in copy editing, punctuation, style issues
Tagged Chicago Manual of Style, copy editing, dates, en dash, punctuation, style issues
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Word Nerd Wednesday
Happy hump day. Here’s part two of Grammar Party’s Word Nerd Wednesday series, where I lovingly compile and share some of the most interesting language-related tidbits floating around the interwebs. Tattoos inspired by books at tattoolit: http://tattoolit.com/ Does using pronouns … Continue reading
Posted in copy editing, grammar, in the news, literature, punctuation, story time
Tagged copy editing, crafts, endangered words, grammar, literature, nerd, Oxford English Dictionary, pop culture, pronouns, tattoo, vocabulary, word nerd
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Simply dashing part one: the em dash
Welcome to part one of a three-part series about horizontal fun in the punctuation department: the em dash, the en dash, and the hyphen. Through this series, you’ll learn the difference between these marks and when to use which one. … Continue reading
Baseball Nicknames
It’s no secret that I’m a baseball fan, more specifically a Minnesota Twins fan. And with two big Twins stories in the news this week, I thought I ought to make another excuse to write about baseball. I mean, there’s … Continue reading
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Tagged baseball, Delmon Young, Jim Thome, Minnesota Twins, nicknames, pop culture, slang, sports
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