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While on Facebook earlier tonight, I found myself asking, “Oh dear, why do I visit this hellsite?” This caused me to look up whether “hellsite” is one word or two. Usage varies, but most reputable sources treat it as one word.

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The official name of today’s US holiday is Washington’s Birthday. Some people/orgs call it Presidents’ Day or Presidents Day. The Associated Press recommends an apostrophe. Merriam-Webster does not. Apostrophe usage by mattress stores — which celebrate the day with unbeatable savings — varies.

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If you post a joke on social media, some folks will find it funny, and some won’t. Them’s the breaks. But then are the people who don’t even recognize that it’s a joke because you didn’t surround it with lol, lmao, and several laughing emoji. These are the people I don’t need in my life.

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Active voice: Dave ate the cookies. Passive voice: The cookies were eaten by Dave. You can love passive voice, or you can hate passive voice, or your feelings can fall somewhere in the middle. But if you’re going to discuss passive voice, it would behoove you to first know what it is.

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People talk about the pin-pen merger, but they don’t talk enough about the gin-gen merger. That’s a topic closer to my heart. The pin-pen merger is the phenomenon in which some English speakers pronounce “pin” and “pen” the same way.

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At a previous job, here’s how my boss once introduced me to a co-worker: “This is Dave. He goes on social media and tells people how to talk.” I said, “No, I use social media to demonstrate my expertise as a copy editor, so that people will want to hire me and I can stop working here.”

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I’m sitting here, editing this Word document, and I watched auto-correct change “manual” to “mannual,” which Word immediately underlined as misspelled. The robots are taking over, and they are confused.

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If you pay for the basic Microsoft 365 subscription ($69.99/year), MS has likely upgraded you to the AI-powered plan ($99.99/year). Log in to your MS account and check. If you wish, you can cancel your plan and immediately sign back up for your old plan with no interruption.

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sunk cost fallacy = the idea that you've invested too much time and money in something to stop now, even if that thing is hurting you Strunk cost fallacy = the idea that you've invested too much time and energy into believing a BS grammar rule to stop now, even if that rule is BS

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First day of the Trump administration. They’re not even hiding it.

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Today I heard Jake Steinfeld get interviewed on a podcast. He said, “I don’t get political. I’m not for red or blue; I’m for red, white and blue.” He then praised Fox News, disparaged the CA governor and the LA mayor, and said he’s excited about the Trump admin. Sir, I think you do get political.

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Today I found out my sixth-grader’s teacher makes her type two spaces after periods, so we had a talk about how, when bosses are wrong, it’s sometimes easier to roll with it than fight it.

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“Rawdog” is the American Dialect Society’s 2024 Word of the Year. Other candidates included “broligarchy,” “cooked,” “Luigi,” “sanewashing,” “brainrot,” “tradwife,” and “aura.”

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When someone asks me for a trick to remember the difference between “affect” and “effect,” I tell them to check a dictionary. Then I tell them to use the words often in their writing and keep checking a dictionary until they don’t have to check anymore. Sorry, but sometimes that’s the trick.

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Something interesting you might not have realized: a number of words in English are nouns when you stress the first syllable but verbs when you stress the second. "Your CONduct is better when you conDUCT yourself appropriately.”

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In 2025, I might launch a consulting service wherein people tell me their grammar peeves and I remind them that the world is on fire and Trump is about to be sworn in as president again so no one cares that they hate hearing “irregardless” once or twice a year.

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A new waffle maker and the latest edition of “The F Word” by @jessesword.com. It’s a happy holiday indeed!

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I can’t understand a word Sean is saying. Slow down and enunciate, my man. #Jeopardy

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“The internet was a collective howl, an outlet for everyone to prove that they mattered.” –Anna Wiener, “Uncanny Valley”

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Today (Wednesday, December 11) is your last day to get early-bird pricing for next year’s conference of ACES: The Society for Editing. If you miss this event, you’ll miss my session, “The Parlance, Process, and Pitfalls of Proposal Editing,” and that would be a shame.

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I registered for #ACES2025 today, the same day that ACES sent us photos from #ACES2024. Here’s a shot of @nicolewayland.bsky.social and me, along with some people whose names I don’t know, paying close attention to one of the many helpful sessions.

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Looking for info on self-publishing: My brother, who’s released four books through small publishers, might self-publish his next one. It’ll be about the history of a particular building, 35,000-40,000 words plus images. Anyone have a self-publishing platform they’d recommend?

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

ALWAYS check the links before going to print.

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