THE EDITORS' WEEKLY

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Peter Midgley

The Lucky Ones

August 26, 2014 by Peter Midgley | 3 Comments on The Lucky Ones

How often have I heard the comment that editors are failed writers — or, in the scholarly environment in which I work, failed academics. Even when said in jest, the underlying suggestion is that one way of interacting with words and ideas — the editor’s — is somehow inferior. Such statements also hint at a […]

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Cy Strom

Because … It’s Time!

August 19, 2014 by Cy Strom | 5 Comments on Because … It’s Time!

“Whatever the current term for ‘hip’ is, that’s what we want to be …” This, I’m told, was the EAC Rebranding Task Force brief to the bilingual design team chosen to look into the organization’s midlife crisis, the youthful Costa Leclerc. “That’s a startling design — it will be fun to write about it.” This […]

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Melva McLean

An Editor in a Three-Day Writer’s Boot Camp, Day 2

August 12, 2014 by Melva McLean | Leave a Comment

In every good boot camp movie there’s a scene where a tough army trainer leaves the rebellious recruit out in the cold and rain all night or makes them do 1,000 pushups. This is one way to make the recruit begin to sacrifice ego. The other short story boot camp recruits and I didn’t have […]

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Frances Peck

Notes From Away: Cape Breton English

August 5, 2014 by Frances Peck | 14 Comments on Notes From Away: Cape Breton English

My first job, selling sundries the summer I was 12 to the cottagers and campers who flocked to Cape Breton’s fabled Mira River, was about as far from the language business as you can get. Yet a few days in, I learned a humbling linguistic lesson. Three times the customer bellowed his order across the […]

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Dominique Fortier

L’évolution du nom Inuit au fil du temps

July 29, 2014 by Dominique Fortier | Leave a Comment

Saviez-vous que le terme Inuit sans s, à une certaine époque, était pluriel, et que son singulier était le mot Inuk? En effet, on disait « des Inuit » (le mot Inuit signifie « les personnes, les gens » en inuktitut; par conséquent, il est déjà au pluriel) et « un ou une Inuk » (le mot Inuk […]

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Kimmy Beach

An Intricate Relief Carving on an Eggshell: Working With Peter Midgley on The Last Temptation of Bond

July 22, 2014 by Kimmy Beach | 2 Comments on An Intricate Relief Carving on an Eggshell: Working With Peter Midgley on The Last Temptation of Bond

This is the first in our new “Editors in the Spotlight” series, spotlighting editors who have won awards or participated in award-winning projects. In this post, Kimmy Beach interviews Peter Midgley, who won the Tom Fairley Award for Editorial Excellence for editing her book, The Last Temptation of Bond. ~~~ Peter and I meet at […]

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Melva McLean

An Editor in a Three-Day Writer’s Boot Camp, Day 1

July 15, 2014 by Melva McLean | 1 Comment on An Editor in a Three-Day Writer’s Boot Camp, Day 1

Novelist’s Boot Camp Travel Writing Boot Camp Dissertation Writing Boot Camp Resume Writing Boot Camp Children’s Picture Book Boot Camp Okay, STOP. Right there! Seriously? What could be less suited to boot camp than a kid’s picture book? What’s next? And when did the words “boot camp,” i.e., “a military training camp for new recruits, […]

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Wilf Popoff

Wasted Words: Jobspeak, the Language of Work

July 8, 2014 by Wilf Popoff | 6 Comments on Wasted Words: Jobspeak, the Language of Work

At an age when young men are learning to shave, I was hanging out at police stations and courthouses. No, I wasn’t in trouble with the law. I was a newspaper reporter, writing about the legal problems of others and the policemen* who brought them to justice. In fact, the only crimes I committed were […]

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Anita Jenkins

Facts and Fiction: English, Cows and the TLS

July 2, 2014 by Anita Jenkins | 1 Comment on Facts and Fiction: English, Cows and the TLS

This is the first in our “Facts and Fiction” series of mini-book reviews. Each blog entry will briefly describe one non-fiction and one fiction title that might interest editors and other lovers of language. The Story of English By Robert McCrum, Robert MacNeil and William Cran (third edition). Penguin, 2002. I’ve always loved this book, […]

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Dominique Fortier

Les faux amis

June 24, 2014 by Dominique Fortier | Leave a Comment

Le mot le dit : des hypocrites, des spécialistes de l’esbroufe, des faux jetons. Ils font partie de notre paysage quotidien, nous collent aux baskets, nous jettent de la poudre aux yeux. Ils nous sourient, toujours prêts à nous aider, toujours disponibles. Ils ont l’air vrais, sincères, mais ce n’est que façade. En réalité, ils sont […]

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