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oops! I do not think that means what you think it means

THE HEAD­LINE caught my at­ten­tion, as it was sup­posed to: “Ad­vanced OOP For Word­Press.” As should be ob­vious to most people fa­miliar with news­paper, mag­a­zines, and now on­line ar­ti­cles, the head­line is usu­ally the first thing that most readers see in any ar­ticle.  [Read more] “oops! I do not think that means what you think it means”

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if william strunk was a typographer, would he omit needless spaces

THE EL­E­MENTS OF STYLE has been around for al­most one-hundred years, but it didn’t start its march to uni­versal ac­claim until 1959. That year saw the first edi­tion of William Strunk’s little book ex­panded from 43 pages to 78 pages by “co-author” E.B. White. Forty years ear­lier, Pro­fessor Strunk had pub­lished the book as a guide for his stu­dents at Cor­nell Uni­ver­sity. [Read more] “if william strunk was a typographer, would he omit needless spaces”

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my forte is not my fortay, it’s just my fort

WE HEAR IT AND WE SAY IT, usu­ally in­cor­rectly! The word “forte” is al­most uni­ver­sally mis­pro­nounced! I can’t say it’s a part of every­one’s daily vo­cab­u­lary, but if you read enough you’ll come across it reg­u­larly. It was mis­used in a couple of movies we watched re­cently and that mo­ti­vated me to write this ar­ticle. [Read more] “my forte is not my fortay, it’s just my fort”

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on william strunk and vigorously concise writing

WILLIAM STRUNK JR was Pro­fessor of Eng­lish at Cor­nell Uni­ver­sity. In 1918, he self-published a guide for his stu­dents on Eng­lish usage and writing called The El­e­ments Of Style. The slim book con­sisted pri­marily of eight “el­e­men­tary rules of usage” and ten “el­e­men­tary prin­ci­ples of com­po­si­tion” ac­com­pa­nied by a “few mat­ters of form.’ [Read more] “on william strunk and vigorously concise writing”

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about editing and those confusing proofreader’s marks

ASIDE FROM MY OWN WORK, I have edited sev­eral books and many ar­ti­cles for others. I have no formal training in, merely study about editing. I never used the field’s ac­cepted nomen­cla­ture or proof-reading sym­bols. I just used my Strunk & White and every­thing worked out hunky-dory for those writers! [Read more] “about editing and those confusing proofreader’s marks”