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The love of money is not only the root of all evil; it is also the root of ghastly copy.

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Wasted Words: Squandering Words on Money

October 9, 2013 by Wilf Popoff | 3 Comments on Wasted Words: Squandering Words on Money

Wasted Words is a series of musings on language and usage by editor emeritus Wilf Popoff. The love of money is not only the root of all evil; it is also the root of ghastly copy. I find it particularly ironic that word economy has only a fleeting acquaintance with commerce. Consider the grating and […]

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Getting an internship can lead to a job—but it might not be the job you were expecting.

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Dispatches 7: Finding Work in Unexpected Places

October 2, 2013 by Kate Icely | Leave a Comment

Dispatches from an Editorial Intern is a series of posts from a neophyte editor in the publishing trenches. Getting an internship can lead to a job — but it might not be the job you were expecting. When I first started taking courses at Ryerson University, I didn’t have a clue about the variety of […]

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Comment composer avec l’espace fine dans les traitements de texte: typographie et correction

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Typographie et correction

September 25, 2013 by Dominique Fortier | Leave a Comment

Comment composer avec l’espace fine dans les traitements de texte L’espace fine, c’est une espace (le mot est féminin lorsqu’on parle typographie) d’un quart de cadratin (soit 25 % de la police de caractères choisie — par exemple, pour une police de caractères de 12 points, l’espace fine doit être de 3 points) qui est toujours insécable. On […]

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Literally is not The word “literally” is the topic of this week’s blog, "English Can Be So Two-faced," by Karen Virag for The Editors' Weekly, EAC, Sept. 17, 2013. only word in this crazy language of ours that has opposing definitions. But it's the topic of this blog post, "English Can Be So Two-faced," by Karen Virag. The Editors' Weekly, EAC, Sept. 17, 2013.

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English Can Be So Two-Faced

September 17, 2013 by Karen Virag | Leave a Comment

My head literally exploded when I read it! What text, you are wondering, could have caused such a messy and bloody scene? (And if my head literally exploded, shouldn’t I be dead?) Well, the text in question was from an article in Salon magazine (August 22, 2013) decrying the Merriam-Webster (MW) Dictionary definition of the word literally to […]

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When does consistency trump everything else in writing? Or does it ever? Virginia Durksen’s new mini-series explores the myth of consistency in writing. EAC Blog, Sept 5, 2013.

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Myth: Consistency Matters Consistently

September 10, 2013 by Virginia Durksen | Leave a Comment

And so begins a mini-series, a sub-set of “The Inner Editor” by Virginia Durksen. Each myth-buster explores an assumption commonly made about editors or editing and offers a new perspective on that assumption. Consistency matters when you’re adding a column of numbers. Consistency also matters when you’re training your dog (or your kids, for that […]

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Dispatches 6: Are Interns Taken Advantage Of?

August 27, 2013 by Kate Icely | Leave a Comment

Dispatches from an Editorial Intern is a series of posts from a neophyte editor in the publishing trenches. According to my recent articles, internships can be awesome. You get a ton of experience, and getting a job is a snap — all you have to do is follow the steps in my last post. But […]

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Dans quelle région se trouve Lac-Mégantic? En Estrie ou dans les Cantons-de-l’Est?

August 22, 2013 by Dominique Fortier | 4 Comments on Dans quelle région se trouve Lac-Mégantic? En Estrie ou dans les Cantons-de-l’Est?

Il existe, depuis longtemps et encore aujourd’hui, une grande confusion quant à l’utilisation du mot Estrie et de l’expression Cantons-de-l’Est. Cette confusion vient du fait que les deux entités n’ont pas les mêmes fonctions ni les mêmes frontières géographiques. Au Québec, presque toutes les régions administratives et les régions touristiques coïncident avec le territoire qu’elles […]

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Gettable Grammar: I Come to Praise Typos, Not to Bury Them

August 15, 2013 by Karen Virag | Leave a Comment

Gettable Grammar is a monthly series of conjectures, opinions and postulates by Karen Virag. Summer is often called the silly season — it is, after all, generally a time of cheap escapist paperbacks and brainless blockbuster movies (Sharknado, anyone?). So, in honour of that most thought-free, indolence-inspiring and cogitation-challenged of seasons, for this posting I […]

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Wasted Words: Stalking Verbosity

July 30, 2013 by Wilf Popoff | 4 Comments on Wasted Words: Stalking Verbosity

Wasted Words is a series of musings on language and usage by editor emeritus Wilf Popoff. Verbosity is the technical term for wasted words and it reflects the ongoing motif of this blog series. Verbosity noun the fact or quality of using more words than needed; wordiness. (Oxford Online Dictionary) Not much here to make […]

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The Inner Editor: The Useful Conversation

July 24, 2013 by Virginia Durksen | 2 Comments on The Inner Editor: The Useful Conversation

The descriptive-prescriptive war is over. Long live the conversation. In the past month, my colleagues have been chatting about an article called Descriptivism vs. prescriptivism: War is over (if you want it). Its heading perpetuates a flawed premise, but the author offers good evidence that prescriptive and descriptive can both be thoughtful approaches to the […]

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