Donna Lowe
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Donna Lowe
There are things that we, as a society, would be remiss not to be sticklers about: inclusive language that shows respect for and validation of the people who inhabit this world, and information that’s presented accurately and clearly
Emmy J. Favilla • A World Without "Whom"
The bigger-picture creation (the “mother,” if you will) takes italics, while the components within it (the “baby” creations) take quotation marks. You’d put book titles in italics but chapter names in quotes;
Emmy J. Favilla • A World Without "Whom"
two pretty straightforward examples: The duo is recording an album (they’re recording it as a unit), but The duo are going their separate ways (both members, as individual people, are planning to embark on different journeys;
Emmy J. Favilla • A World Without "Whom"
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.
Emmy J. Favilla • A World Without "Whom"
Leonard Bernstein’s Tanglewood sermon was intended to send the young musicians off with high hopes:
.. It's the artists of the world, the feelers and the thinkers, who will ultimately save us, who can articulate, educate, defy, insist, sing and shout the big dreams. Only the artists can turn the "Not-Yet" into reality. All right, how do you do it? L... See more
.. It's the artists of the world, the feelers and the thinkers, who will ultimately save us, who can articulate, educate, defy, insist, sing and shout the big dreams. Only the artists can turn the "Not-Yet" into reality. All right, how do you do it? L... See more
Seventeen years later, father of the emoji Shigetaka Kurita would create the first one—a heart—for Japanese telemarketing company NTT Docomo,
Emmy J. Favilla • A World Without "Whom"
•Proper nouns ending in s that make a z sound, e.g., BuzzFeed News’ [a
Emmy J. Favilla • A World Without "Whom"
generally use Latino rather than Hispanic when a broader term is necessary.
Emmy J. Favilla • A World Without "Whom"
•Words that end in -es and are spelled the same as both the singular and plural form take only an apostrophe for the possessive of both forms (series’, species’
Emmy J. Favilla • A World Without "Whom"
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.”