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Stacey E. posted an article on Editrix - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Kate Harding writes for the Salon column “Broadsheet” and for the blog Shapely Prose. Her new book is Lessons from the Fat-o-Sphere. Q: What is your preferred environment for writing? A: Today is the first day in 2009 it’s been...
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Stacey E. posted an article on Editrix - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Note: I originally published this post in March of last year, but since today is Mother's Day (or, if Wendalyn Nichols had her way, "Mothers Day"), I thought it would be appropriate to dig it up, especially since the inventor...
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Stacey E. posted an article on Editrix - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Since Mr. K-- is busy grading finals tonight and doesn't have time to watch Dexter on Chinese YouTube with me, I've been keeping myself entertained by toodling around Slate. I came across this (admittedly old) article in which Bruce Reed...
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Stacey E. posted an article on Editrix - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Every month, when Chicago e-mails me to let me know that its Q&A page has been updated, I gobble up the new info faster than the Redoubtable Mr. L— can eat a pan of brownies. (It won’t be long before...
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Stacey E. posted an article on Editrix - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
In Standpoint magazine, Lionel Shriver laments that the em dash is usurping the semicolon. Does she hate the em dash? Not at all. In fact, she admits to using it "like many of peers, often to excess." But she...
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Stacey E. posted an article on Editrix - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Lexicographer Erin McKean discusses the dictionary and, yes, the "ham-butt problem." P.S. Allow me to femme-out for a moment: Love her glasses, love her shoes, and love, love, love her dress.
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Stacey E. posted an article on Editrix - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10cWaffle Housethedailyshow.com Daily Show Full EpisodesEconomic CrisisPolitical Humor
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Stacey E. posted an article on Editrix - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
One of my readers, Dawn, wrote me last week to complain about swine flu's new name -- and I'm not talking about "H1N1." She writes: I happen to work at state health department . . . and was puzzled...
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Stacey E. posted an article on Editrix - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Two reasons: 1) I've run out of things to say about editing. 2) I'm pregnant, and it's hard to come up with new things to say about editing when you spend all of your free time sleeping or trying to...
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Stacey E. posted an article on Editrix - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
In Copyediting magazine's "Dictionary Update," Grant Barrett writes: zombie bank, noun. A bank that is continually near failure, especially one propped up by government assistance. Zombie banks are being kept alive by Fed advances. --American Banker, May 13, 1991 Zombie...
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