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Spelling Wars—Why can’t Canadians simplify? (podcast)

Webster set out to simplify spelling when he wrote his American dictionary. Why do Canadians cling to complicated rules and

Fair dealing exemptions to copyright law in Canada, a free online tool to tell if your use needs permission, and

How is editing in Canada different from editing everywhere else? Well, Tim Hortons. It’s our donut chain. I mean cafe.

Word info in my favourite links this week: One series on customizing Word, and two free resources that will help

In this 5 min podcast I explore scientific evidence for what kind of error correction rate is humanly feasible. We’ll look

Rewritten for the audio format, and with a new quote or two: here is my first foray into podcasting in

Butterick’s Practical Typography Though the designer creates the page templates and overall product design, it is the copy editor who

Let me clarify: How many errors can an editor let stand? 5% Pulled that number out of the air. (Serious

This blog now has dozens of posts that will help the new starter. Click the Starter Kit for Editors category

guest post by Danielle Arbuckle Every industry has its own language, and finance is no exception. Some people may