12/23/11 News Roundup
Submitted by Erin Brenner on Fri, 12/23/2011 - 6:24am
Today’s News Roundup covers questions about AMA style, book publishing predictions, and more.
Top pick
Got a question on AMA style? Check out these recent questions submitted to the manual editors: “Questions From Users of the Manual.” (AMA Style Insider)
More great articles
- “Ten Bold Predictions for Book Publishing in 2012”: What will the book publishing industry look like at this time next year? (Digital Book World)
- “Transitive Disappear? Not in This Country!”: Can you say “Have I been disappeared?” (Language Log)
- “Toodle-pip”: Just how badly can British English mangle French? (World Wide Words)
- “2011 UK-to-US Word of the Year: Kettling”: Americans imported kettling from Brits this year. What it means and how to use it. (Separated by a Common Language)
Friday bonus
Who knew ninjas were so against bad grammar? Justin Abbott, that’s who.
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This is the last News Roundup of the year. I’ll be back on January 3 with more news important to copyeditors. Happy holidays, all!
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