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Don’t Italicize French Ballet Terms

Italicizing ballet terms because they’re French? Oh no, you don’t! Today, in my Canadian, Eh? column at Copyediting.com.

Is Canadian Press’ Caps and Spelling guide the last standing curator of our national spelling style? A brief look at

How do you use a ruler when editing? I list 8 uses for rulers at (not of) the editing desk, today

Capitalization is probably second only to spelling as a source of confusion and ambivalence for Canadian editors. — Editing Canadian English

I just discovered something so simple and effective that my jaw literally dropped. To proof file names (or create a

The thing that is hard for some of us (editors) to accept is that some of the things that drive

Changing the background colour of your document can trick your brain into seeing the words in a whole new way.

Rolling in a heap of money helps one cope. Consider adding an aggravation fee. Lorne Michaels famously said about SNL: The show

This week’s roundup of internet stuff for gangbangin’ publications playaz and science mofos: a plea for science communication diagramming

Those sideways PDF pages? Rotate in a click. Note that this rotates all pages in the PDF, and only temporarily.