Donna Lowe
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Donna Lowe
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
Emmy J. Favilla • A World Without "Whom"
As a stand-in for the word to, to signify a time range, as in March 2010–April 2017, or direction, as in the Chicago–Miami flight
Emmy J. Favilla • A World Without "Whom"
•Use “s” for all singular possessive nouns, e.g., Chris’s, Katniss’s.
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
It’s a widely accepted standard that job titles (e.g., president, governor, editor-in-chief) should be capitalized when they directly precede a person’s name and lowercased when they do not: The pope visited New York, but Pope Francis gave blessings to New Yorkers
Emmy J. Favilla • A World Without "Whom"
Basically: Be conscious of not making assumptions.
Emmy J. Favilla • A World Without "Whom"
“a colon means ‘that is to say’ or ‘here’s what I mean.’”
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"
1982 [the first recorded instance of the digital emoticon]