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Historical place-names
I am working on an edited collection about the history of the Caribbean, and I have discovered that the spelling of the names of islands--particularly names from the colonial period--is anything but standard. For example, to choose a timely case, the French colony that later became Haiti was called |
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A hint on research
Hi, JT,
When I need an authoritative answer on a name spelling, I look beyond merely Googling the name or term, although you can gauge the correct answer there by seeing which spelling pops up the most frequently in your Google search (sort of like "Ask the Audience" in [i]Who Wants to Be a Milli |
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giving feedback to poor writers
Hi!
I'm copyediting a story for someone whose writing is very rough. I have edits on almost every other line, with scores of comma splices, missing punctuation, and mistaken words (peel/peal, alter/altar, etc.) and other very basic grammatical errors. The writer is not a youngster and has a colle |
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Format for dialogue that contains written words?
I know CMOS does not really cover fiction, but I'm at a loss in this situation! If within a portion of dialogue the character reads a note aloud, that would normally be enclosed in single quotation marks, right? OK, so the note read aloud by this character is written by a Jewish character, so it con |
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RE: saying oo and ahh
[i]Pluralize[/i] is a word! ([url=http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pluralize]According to Merriam-Webster[/url], anyway.) The spelling of "ooh" is [url=http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ooh]here[/url], the spelling of "aah" is [url=http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aah]here[ |
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mullion/transom construction or mullion-transom construction ?
Hello there,
I’m looking for the correct spelling of this compound.
The German translation (better: original word) is: Pfosten-Riegel-Konstruktion (1), that means both elements are part of the construction.
There is a difference to the spelling: Pfosten-/Riegel-Konstruktion (2): only one of th |
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RE: Spelling bee!
That's a lot of fun! Thank you! |
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Dangling hyphens with closed and hyphenated compounds
The problem words are: overdeveloped and less-developed (needs to be written based on Oxford dictionary spelling in MLA style -- I know, it's a bit unusual). I am supposed to proofread a friend's paper.
Anyway, the constructions presented to me (in connection with countries) are:
a) over and l |
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RE: Apostrophe in "Presidents' Day" but not "Veterans Day"?
Because government :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington%27s_Birthday#Spelling
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veterans_Day#Spelling_of_Veterans_Day
The second link provides the official reason for the lack of a comma in "Veterans Day":
[quote="Wikipedia"]While the holiday is commonl |
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Re: Style sheet
For me a [i]style sheet [/i]is just the list of special terminology used in the work. I include words that have special spelling, hyphenation, and capitalization, as well as terms that seem to be industry-specific. Other than the work-specific style sheet, I look up questions in Chicago and refer th |