El Editor 📑

I am nothing but a #copyeditor, and can and want to be nothing else 🤓 Enemy of typoos😰 Friend of Word and words ☺️ #EFA #ACES #SfEP #EditorsCanada #amediting

[El Editor 📑 @EL___editor]

In many ways, being a #copyeditor is like sitting for an #English exam that never ends.

[NW Editors Guild (Find us on other socials) @EdsGuild]

This week we check in with Dickens, #StetPet editorial assistant of OR author and editor @JerrySmith6559.

"My editorial assistant and morale officer moonlights as a structural engineer. Here he tests a new bench on the boardwalk to see if it can safely support 80 lbs. It can."

[NW Editors Guild (Find us on other socials) @EdsGuild]

This is Assistant Proofreader, #StetPet editorial assistant to Boston editor @H_E_Saunders.

Heather posted a belly-scratchingly good thread yesterday with a look into Assistant Proofreader's diligent work day: https://t.co/Q0wdgSUlT0

Extra virtual ear scratches all around!

[ACES: The Society for Editing (use other social) @ACESEditors]

Roll Call: who is joining us in Salt Lake City for #ACES2020? The early bird rate ends this Wednesday, Jan. 15!

[El Editor 📑 @EL___editor]

@CWWilkie @BarbieHalaby @MonocleEd Thanks for the quick notice 😬

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

📈The #BTS comeback announcement has driven a 31,000% spike in searches for 'come prima,' a term meaning “in the same manner as the first time.” https://t.co/kzEP7QkWBb

[Carol Saller @SubvCopyEd]

Seriously, @Scrabble, why aren’t ANY of these words?
Belipfy
Blepify
Febilyp
Feyblip
Flybipe
Pifleby
Plebify
Pybifle

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Join editor @PeterSokolowski as he explains the data and decisions behind our #WordOfTheYear process: https://t.co/fzYDCSu5CE

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

The word ‘they’
- was looked up 313% more this year than last.
- had a new sense added in September.
- is increasingly common in both public and personal communication.

‘They’ is our 2019 #WordOfTheYear.
https://t.co/i7QlIv15M3

[John McIntyre @johnemcintyre]

At the desk. Much as I have fellow feeling for elderly cranks, I do not weep for the Apostrophe Protection society.

[Peter Sokolowski @PeterSokolowski]

Arrived today: "The Whole World in a Book: Dictionaries in the Nineteenth Century" from OUP (@OxUniPress), which includes my chapter "The Invention of the Modern Dictionary."

https://t.co/Udrk8g8hoE

[John McIntyre @johnemcintyre]

At the desk. Snip a comma, stet a comma, snip a comma, stet a comma, snip, snip, snip. snip a lot, stet a little now ...

[John McIntyre @johnemcintyre]

Being correct is good, but being hypercorrect can make you look foolish.
https://t.co/RcLn6mWjPR

[APA Style @APA_Style]

It’s finally here! Today we publish the 7th edition of the Publication Manual and launch a new APA Style website and blog! In this first blog post, we share some of the questions we've received over the years & discuss what's new in #APAStyle! https://t.co/IjG2iylPLM

[CIEP Official @The_CIEP]

Don't worry if you're not going to #SfEP2019 (apart from missing out and having conference envy), you can catch up on all the action using our hashtag: #sfep2019. Have a great weekend, people

[Dictionary.com @Dictionarycom]

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[El Editor 📑 @EL___editor]

@Mededitor Autofigured

[The Chicago Manual of Style @ChicagoManual]

Q. How do I cite a YouTube video in Chicago style?
Q. Can an em dash be used to connect two complete sentences?
Q. Are decimals from zero to one singular or plural?

We answer your #ChicagoStyle questions in the September Q&A at CMOS Online! https://t.co/hxuCgpEZeg

[NW Editors Guild (Find us on other socials) @EdsGuild]

This week's #StetPet is Thea, editorial assistant of Alberta editor @HeatherBuzila. Thea is the embodiment of the dog days of summer while on a recent #StetWalk.

"Sun’s out, tongue’s out."

[John McIntyre @johnemcintyre]

English grammar does not need policing.

https://t.co/waexZTV5RP

[The OED @OED]

OED Word of the Day: fuhgeddaboudit, int. In representations of regional speech (associated especially with New York and New Jersey): ‘forget about it’, used to indicate that a suggested scenario is unlikely or undesirable.
https://t.co/4UreV5W6uo