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At the desk. No holiday weekend at the paragraph factory. I'm foreman today and tomorrow.
@KoryStamper @eabrewster What red goes with caramel corn?
@paulwiggins Once destroyed, they attempt to edit for a living.
RT @paulwiggins: Quem deus vult perdere they first inspire to write for a living.
At the desk. Show me the copy.
RT @AngrySubEditor: Just seen a Facebook link: "We use semicolons everyday". The misuse of "everyday" rather undermines the smugness about …
RT @PeterSokolowski: Language: we will always be judged more by the little thing we do wrong than by the many things we do right.
At the desk. I would prefer not to.
At Merriam-Webster's "A Thing About Words," my guest post on dictionary fundamentalism: tinyurl.com/qyrgyeb
Merriam-Webster Unabridged
unabridged.merriam-webster.com — Every sacred book draws a range of followers, some of whom invariably turn out to be extremists. That the dictionary is one such holy text is evidenced by the frequency with which the clergy open homilies, not with Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John, but with "Webster's says." That speaks of Authority.Have a Story?
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