Temporary AP Stylebook

Temporary AP Style updates during the July 15 verified account compromise event. (PARODY)

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@HRodriguez15 We’re student journalists, of course we’re not okay

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@RotoPenguin No I’m saying he’s a snake https://t.co/aLROm59SnB

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Referring to Martin Shkreli aka Pharma Bro as “several ball pythons stacked on top of each other in a trench coat” upon first reference is acceptable under #APStyle #APStyleChat

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[Liam T.A. Ford @ltaford]

Your @TempAPStyle tip of the day:
lectern, podium, pulpit, rostrum
A speaker stands behind a lectern, on a podium or rostrum, or in the pulpit.

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I’m not okay

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AP style: OK, OK'd, OK'ing, OKs. We don't use the spelling okay.

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Newsroom heroes is acceptable in all references to the organizers of The New Yorker Union.

[The New Yorker Union @newyorkerunion]

Thank you to everyone who has signed our open letter to David Remnick demanding just cause. We now have nearly 1,500 signatures. But yesterday’s bargaining session made clear that our fight is far from over. Read more: https://t.co/2NakJbjg4i

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@dullsalmon *Part of it

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In all references to X Æ A-Xii…. wait no we can’t even figure out how to spell it, fuck this I quit. #APStyleChat

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Elongated muskrat is acceptable in all references to Tesla CEO and apartheid beneficiary Elon Musk. #APStyleChat

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Failure to comply will these most recent updates in AP Style will result in your Copy Chief being launched into orbit with trebuchet. Thank you. #APStyleChat

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Abbreviations for the months are inconsistent under AP Style. Therefore, we will be reverting to the Martian calendar moving forward, wherein days are 39 minutes & 35 seconds longer & there are 668 sols (687 Earth days) per year. #APStyleChat

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#APStyleChat Quotation marks are boring. Instead, try using emojis that accurately reflect whatever’s inside the quotations.

Ex: ✖️Quotation marks are boring,👎 @TempAPStyle tweeted. (Bonus! They can be different emojis.)

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Under an egalitarian society we wouldn’t need titles. Liberate the Oxford comma liberate us all

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College journalists hit us up here 👋

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@theotheroliver That’s what the grammar purge is for

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Tell us your least favorite grammar rule. We’ll fix it. #APStyleChat

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You’re right. I before E no exceptions. Welcome to the world “Fiesty”, “niether” and “wierd” (etc)

[Ben Buchnat @benbuchnat]

@TempAPStyle I before E except after C.

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Yes! This is also a good lesson in correctly citing sources. #StreetSmarts

[Noah Delgado @DelGoada]

@TempAPStyle I think you mean, as Detective J. J. Bittenbinder would say. Y’know, cuz he was all about throwing them off their rhythm

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#APStyleChat Instead using inverted pyramid style to tell your audience the most important information first, try the opposite! Throw them off their rhythm, as John Mulaney would say.

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In other news, congrats to the word “rimes@if,” our newest addition to the Webster's New World College Dictionary! #APStyleChat

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New AP Style Guidelines dictate that — grammatically speaking — whatever Susan Orlean says, goes.
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[Susan Orlean @susanorlean]

I am goi f to sleep. My husband has asked me five hundred rimes@if I am alright. That means it’s go to sleep o’clock