Some weeks the great stuff floods in. This was one of those weeks. And my podcast is super late! Language-Change
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Do Quotes Deserve Clean-up?
In my Canadian, Eh? post this week on Copyediting.com, I argue that we editors should clean up quotes at least
Converting Measurements
This week’s Canadian, Eh? column on Copyediting.com focusses on making conversions between imperial and metric, also known as SI which is short
Refocus, call it snow, and check it off
There were 3 of my posts this week over at Copyediting.com, as I filled in for other bloggers. The
Checklists: saving your bacon and bringing it home too (podcast)
Checklists are the focus of this episode, in which I expand on one of my posts from the now-defunct Copyediting: explaining how checklists
Listen Now: Tim Hortons IS Canada, and other things you should know to edit here
How is editing in Canada different from editing everywhere else? Well, Tim Hortons. It’s our donut chain. I mean cafe.
Surprising 2-Step Trick to Find the Going Rate in Your Market Niche (podcast)
Learn a simple trick for finding out the going rate in your market — right down to the subject, product,
Listen now: Competing with Colleagues for Editorial Fees — podcast version
Expanded and retold from its first appearance at Copyediting.com, this episode explores market rates. Specifically, what to do when other editors
Error Rates in Editing: What’s Your Save Percentage? (podcast)
In this 5 min podcast I explore scientific evidence for what kind of error correction rate is humanly feasible. We’ll look
Listen now: podcast version of “How many errors trigger a book reprint?”
Rewritten for the audio format, and with a new quote or two: here is my first foray into podcasting in