Writing Topic
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Style & Usage
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Capitalization quandary: Internet and Web
Tony Long may be a fine copy editor — no doubt he’s better than me — but his style decisions confound. As you may have heard, Wired News now sets in lowercase Internet, Net, and Web because there is no earthly reason to capitalize any of these words. David Akin aptly explains why Tony is wrong -
SARS-Stock and Chicago 15
Today is SARS-Stock. While it’s doubtful this will actually relieve Toronto’s bruised tourism and service sectors, it has been an “emotional rescue” for pun-loving journalists. -
Survival tips for 2004
Wanted to get my end-of-year list out a couple of days ago, but didn’t. Oh well, maybe later. In the meantime, these words/phrases are banned this year and the Guardian Online offers us it’s survival guide for 2003 -
France’s email
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Lowercase Internet; css-discuss Wiki
Hope everyone enjoyed a bit of a break — me I’m still fighting the cold that started just before my holidays began. By the way, rumour has it the latest CBC Radio 3 webzine is using a David Elfstrom photo… -
HTML is not an acronym…
Discover the difference between an acronym, an abbreviation, and an initialism while learning some suggestions on how to treat them in Web pages. -
Ems and awards
Anyone who has ever wondered why ' is not ’, and how using -- could infuriate people, should read the “The Trouble With EM’n EN.” -
Email or e-mail?
Marking the end of an era, Wired News has changed its house style from “email” to “e-mail.” The decision to change is explained with great detail, and care, by Tony Long, copy chief at Wired News. While I will likely keep spelling email sans-hyphen, I understand Long’s reasoning (grammatical history, ease of editing). For me, however, e-mail (with a hyphen) will always look a bit clunky.