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The difference between the right word and almost-right word is like the difference between a lion's roar and a kitten's mew (with apologies to Mark Twain). Actually, the lion is yawning; it was another lazy day on the Masai Mara in Kenya. |
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American Copy Editors Society links to several newsroom-related Web sites as well as copy editors’ critiques of their own copy desks: http://copydesk.org/ Bartlett's Familiar Quotations: www.cc.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/bartlett/ Encyclopeadia Britannica Online: http://www.britannica.com/ Grammar and Style Notes: www.english.upenn.edu/~jlynch/Grammar/ Infoplease, online dictionary, internet encyclopedia and almanac reference: www.crl.com:80/~jshenry/rig.html Online Dictionaries: http://www.yourdictionary.com/ The OWL at Purdue http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/index.html Rasmussen College Grammar and Punctuation Guid http://www.rasmussen.edu/articles/grammar-and-punctuation-guide.asp Statistics Every Writer Should Know: http://www.nilesonline.com/stats University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Grammar Handbook at the Writers' Workshop: http://www.cws.illinois.edu/workshop/writers Webster’s Revised (1913) Unabridged Dictionary. A little dated ("computer" is defined as "one who computes"), but many words haven’t changed their meanings over time http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/webster.form.html World Wide Web Virtual Library: http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/publishers/broadcast.html#USA WWWebster Dictionary: http://www.m-w.com/netdict.htm Copyediting-l mail list: Style FAQ http://www.rt66.com/~telp/sfindex.htm To subscribe to Copyediting-l: send message to listproc@cornell.edu; in the body of the message write: SUBSCRIBE COPYEDITING-L YOURCOMPTERNAME Copy Editor is for people who take their words seriously: http://www.copyeditor.com Copy editors’ group http://www.li.net/~pambo/ Crusty Old Slot Man’s Copy-Editing Peeve Page. http://access.digex.net/~bwalsh/editing.html (bwalsh@access.digex.net) The National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association's Web site includes the group's Stylebook Supplement, which has for terms relating to sexual orientation and gender identity. http://www.nlgja.org/pubs/style.html
HyperGrammar: http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/grammar.html Capital Community College in Hartford, Conn.: http://go.to/grammarAtlanta Journal Constitution Stylebook http://sunsite.unc.edu/slanews/intranets/ajc/STYLBOOK.HTM "Elements of Style" by William Strunk Jr. This is the original 1918 edition. http://www.cc.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/strunk/ Guide to Grammar and Style by Jack Lynch http://www.andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/index.html Honolulu Star-Bulletin Stylebook http://starbulletin.com/sbstyle/index.html National Public Radio Ethics and Style Guidebook http://www.npr.org/inside/styleguide/stylmain.htm The Slot style guide http://www.theslot.com/contents.html#start Set up by Washington Post slot editor Bill Walsh. Wired Style. This style book created by Wired magazine is considered by many as the language arbiter of the Digital Age. http://www.hotwired.com/hardwired/wiredstyle/toc/index.html
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