Donna Lowe

Arabic names are often formatted as personal name + father’s first name + paternal grandfather’s first name, each sometimes offset with bin or ibn (meaning “son of”) or bint (“daughter of”).

Generally, -sized is used to comparatively describe the size of something (e.g., a nickel-sized spider would describe a spider roughly the size of a nickel) and -size to indicate something’s function or utility (e.g., child-size furniture describes furniture meant for the use of children,

the names of edible things that are derived from a proper noun (usually a geographic location, sometimes a person’s name)—especially when the item in question consists solely of the proper noun (e.g., Brie, as opposed to Brussels sprouts)—are typically capitalized.

the word OK was “born as a lame joke perpetrated by a newspaper editor in 1839.” In short, it’s an abbreviation for “all correct,” and a cool trend at the time—because what else was there to do for fun in 1839?—was to base abbreviations on misspellings or alternate spellings; in this instance we’re talking about “oll korrect.”

readability may be an issue, which is why I’d opt for pre-op rather than preop, side-eye rather than sideeye, and gun-shy rather than gunshy

before you find yourself on a dash spree, remember: less Morse code, more English.

The BuzzFeed Style Guide advises that individual Tumblr blog names should be capitalized and set in roman type,

1982 [the first recorded instance of the digital emoticon]