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Editing flowers

I’ve been wading my way through an enormous, heavy tome, proofreading. I’ve experienced a few frustrations from the process, and my husband brought me flowers from the local farmers’… more »

Word Lily

Where to begin? — 1 comment

Laura wrote 6 days ago: Sometimes I come across Web writing that is so full of errors that it defies categorization. Such is … more »

Tags: misspellings, Confused Words, capitalizing, <punctuation>, Subject-Verb Agreement, Typo, misspelling, Apostrophe

Her Response to My Anniversary Card

2lesbosgoinatit wrote 2 weeks ago: thank you . . . Couldn’t she have at least granted me the respect shown by following proper ca … more »

Tags: anniversary, Divorce, Family, kids, Lesbian, lesbians, lesbo, Love, Marriage

Photos, potatoes, and palominos

Laura wrote 2 weeks ago: Forming the plural of a word ending in O can be tricky. Do you add ES or just an S? It depends on th … more »

Tags: capitalizing, misspellings, plurals, <punctuation>, plural, Apostrophe

Have a capital summer! — 1 comment

Laura wrote 3 weeks ago: But don’t capitalize the word summer. Like all seasons, summer is not a proper noun. But the … more »

Tags: capitalizing, Seasons, summer

Capitalization After Colons

motsjustes wrote 3 weeks ago: When I was readying the inaugural issue of Southern California Review for publication this spring, I … more »

Tags: <punctuation>, colon

How Far Should "Adapting to Your Audience" Go?

Tiffany Derville wrote 4 weeks ago: We are back to my Hulk theme this week! As mentioned in my earlier post, the Hulk movie was great, … more »

Tags: Cover Letter, Grammar, Job titles

Business Plan (plano de negócios)

investidorvirtual wrote 1 month ago: [English][Translated by Google] Though still only has presented IHI very generally, we have achieve … more »

Tags: Investments of High Income, Investments, high income, IPO, Second-Life, santinhos noel, sl capital Exchange, Portugal, Brasil

Minimal Capitals — 5 comments

diddums wrote 1 month ago: I’m used to the following terms: small capitals title case sentence case lower case upper … more »

Tags: Editing, Terminology, Style Sheets, Team Work

Editing flowers — 2 comments

wordlily wrote 1 month ago: I’ve been wading my way through an enormous, heavy tome, proofreading. I’ve experienced … more »

Tags: Books, Siloam Springs, nonfiction, Publishing, Proofreading, Flowers, photograph

Black Tie vs. Causal Friday — 1 comment

mlibrarianus wrote 2 months ago: Thanks to The Travelin’ Librarian I’m going to institute a new Friday ritual. Rants! … more »

Tags: rants, twitter, puncutation, The Travelin Librarian, LinkedIn, IM, black tie, Casual Friday

fRUStRaTIOn!

funkyness wrote 2 months ago: Can you tell by the way I carefully used improper capitalization that I am frustrated today? Thank … more »

Tags: Frustrated Moments, Frustration, toy, couch

Twenty Items of Interest (v.18) — 8 comments

Shane Vander Hart wrote 2 months ago: 1.  Just incase you haven’t had enough already… another political ad asking questio … more »

Tags: Twenty Items, hillary clinton, John Edwards, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Mormons, Global Warming, John McCain, Barack Obama, Stand to Reason

Maybe I'm just embarrassed?

gregipedia wrote 2 months ago: May 12, 2008 – When I came into work this morning, I did my usual routine. Can of V8 and a bag of … more »

Tags: It's in the Genes, 23andme, alcohol flush reaction

Sittin' with the Clintons at the Witenagemot — 2 comments

almarose wrote 2 months ago: If you and I and senators Clinton, Obama, and McCain had lived in medieval England, we would not be … more »

Tags: writing, Grammar, History of the English Language, Old English, middle english, Sanskrit, etymology, Senators, Clinton

Editors are important, part 22

Lisa Pampuch wrote 2 months ago: Priceline.com’s television commercial features the same subject-verb agreement problem that … more »

Tags: Caught My Eye, Editing, editors are important, Proofreading, Grammar, Subject-Verb Agreement, <punctuation>, comma, priceline

PLEASE to do/not REcyCLe — 3 comments

washwords wrote 2 months ago: A bright red sign reading: “PLEASE Turn off Lights when Leaving” greeted me bright and e … more »

Tags: Society, Overheard, Work, recycle, Recyclable, office, Irony, Signs, Capital

Informal Style of Electronic Messaging Shows Up in Half the Schoolwork

David Siecker wrote 2 months ago: A recent study found most teenagers do not think of their e-mail messages, text messages and social … more »

Tags: Communication, eMail, Formal, Message, shorthand, Whoa

Unprovoked Capitalization for Jesus — 2 comments

axr38 wrote 3 months ago: I really enjoy reading opposing views, on any topic, but I honestly enjoy reading others’ reli … more »

Tags: God, Religion, Christianity, Jesus

Solomon & Schwartz | The Old Man and the Tree: A Parable of Valuation

Mike wrote 3 months ago: Brilliant, brilliant article. A definitive work. If you want a great primer of the concepts behind c … more »

Tags: Business, Old Man, Stocks, Corporations, Solomon, schwartz, Tree, apple tree, Valuation