Spell check fail of the day
Spell check fail of the day: "urinary track." The right word is "tract," but I like the idea that one could pursue scatology as a career path.
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December 7, 2011
More about italics
Underlining used to be the way to indicate to a printer that a word should be set in italicized type. With the advent of word processing, it became easier to…
December 1, 2011
Could you see the italics in the previous entry?
Could you see the italics in the previous entry? Oh, good. Not because I worry about my computer, but because I want to explain why I used them. When you…
November 29, 2011
Why data are plural
Luckily, I studied Latin. Datum is the Latin word for fact. The plural is data. English makes nouns plural by adding "s." Latin adds an "a." This is why editors…
November 28, 2011
Editing As Medicine
I came up with the metaphor for the nurse authors for whom I edit that words to me are like drugs. I know what combinations are helpful and which are…
November 22, 2011