The writer’s bookshelf (part 3)
This is the third in an ongoing series of posts about the references writers and editors should have on their physical or virtual bookshelf. Style Manuals Style manuals are all about consistency in...
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This is the fourth in a series of posts about the references writers and editors should have on their physical or virtual bookshelf. Usage Guides Usage guides explain issues of confused or disputed use...
View ArticleTime-traveling through the English language with the Historical Thesaurus of...
Matt and I recently had the opportunity to spend some time browsing through the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary, which has just been published by Oxford University Press. I began...
View ArticleAP Stylebook surrenders the battle over “Web site” vs. “website”
I was very pleased to read today in this post on Poynter Online that the Associated Press Stylebook (the style manual used by most newspapers and journalists) is finally changing from Web site to...
View ArticleThe Subversive Copy Editor and a new edition of Chicago Manual of Style
Thanks to this CopyEditing post, I just learned that Carol Saller, the editor of the Chicago Manual of Style’s Online Q&A and the author of the book The Subversive Copy Editor, has a new blog, the...
View ArticleWord lovers rejoice: the Historical Thesaurus will be added to OED Online in...
Last October, I blogged at length about the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary, which was only available in two massive print volumes priced just under $400 (though discounted at...
View Article“The new phone book’s here!”
My print copy of the new 16th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style just arrived from Amazon.com, though the official publication date is not until the end of August. Here’s an interesting change: the...
View ArticleA comparison of how the new style manuals treat tech words
Though two of the most influential style manuals (Chicago and AP) recently changed from “Web site” to “website,” they still differ in their treatment of other tech words, which won’t be a surprise to...
View ArticleThe combined online Oxford English Dictionary and Historical Thesaurus has...
The new and improved OED website (www.oed.com) has launched, fully integrating the online Oxford English Dictionary with the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary. You can now quickly...
View ArticleThe AP Stylebook is dropping the hyphen from “e-mail”
Last August I compared how a number of new style manuals treated tech words. In 2010, both the Chicago Manual of Style (16th edition) and the AP Stylebook Online finally changed their style...
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