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Simperial weights — converting units of measure in Canada

Though I’d much rather announce “I weigh 70 kg,” metric hasn’t entirely stuck in Canada. We use a simperial system that I’ve

The soft and hard of converting imperial measurements to metric for a Canadian audience are covered in this episode, an

As digital products take over the publishing field, copy editors and other publishing pros will find that adding basic HTML

Bossy has been getting a bad rap these days, because it’s mostly used to put down girls for qualities and

When footnotes are a formatting nightmare, Note Stripper saves the day. End notes too. Also, Adrienne sings “soft edit” to help

Thou shalt smitest those who wouldst alter thine language most sacred. Or, move on to something more consequential; you’re standing

The stages of editing are discussed in this episode, but they’re not the stages you’re used to (one is depicted here). It’s

In my Canadian, Eh? post this week on Copyediting.com, I argue that we editors should clean up quotes at least

My guest post today appears on the Editors’ Weekly, the blog of the Editors’ Association of Canada. In “This Book

This week’s Canadian, Eh? column on Copyediting.com focusses on making conversions between imperial and metric, also known as SI which is short