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Submitted by Erin Brenner on Wed, 05/15/2013 - 5:20am

05/15/13 News Roundup

Featured Topic: Words, Words, Words

We aim to keep your vocabulary strong, copyeditors. Today, three timely word lessons.

Submitted by Dawn McIlvain Stahl on Fri, 05/10/2013 - 7:45pm

Online Resources in the News: Adobe Creative Cloud and DARE

Copyeditors and other creative types and word-workers were surprised by recent developments with two online resources: Adobe’s entire line of Creative Suite (CS), now Creative Cloud (CC), software and The Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE).

Adobe CC

Submitted by Erin Brenner on Fri, 04/26/2013 - 5:20am

04/26/13 News Roundup

Featured Topic: Words, Words, Words

In today’s News Roundup: how words get into the Oxford English Dictionary, nine ways to avoid singular they, and fancy-dancy reduplicative compounds.

Submitted by Erin Brenner on Tue, 04/23/2013 - 5:20am

04/23/13 News Roundup

Featured Topic: Words in the News

It’s not often that a copyeditor’s stock in trade makes mainstream news. In today’s News Roundup: the words we used to discuss the Boston marathon bombings*, the possible dark fate of DARE*, and how immigration enriches English.

Submitted by Erin Brenner on Thu, 04/11/2013 - 5:20am

04/11/13 News Roundup

Featured Topic: The Business of Copyediting

Publishing continues to evolve and change. Smart copyeditors stay on top of the business side of things. Three articles to help you do that.

Submitted by Erin Brenner on Tue, 04/09/2013 - 5:20am

04/09/13 News Roundup

Featured Topic: The Publishing Business

While we copyeditors often focus on abstracts, we must remember that publishing is a business and that concrete things, like profits, matter.

Submitted by Dawn McIlvain Stahl on Wed, 03/27/2013 - 1:23pm

You’re Invited: Freelance Copyeditor Happy Hour in St. Louis

Copyediting Newsletter and the American Copy Editors Society (ACES) are hosting a freelancers happy hour on Wednesday, April 3, at 6:00 p.m.—also known as ACES Conference Eve (conference attendance is not required). If you’re a freelancing copyeditor, have been in the past, would like to be in the future, or if you’re someone who hires freelance copyeditors, join us for free appetizers and drinks for purchase at the Market Street Bar in the Ballpark Hilton (1 South Broadway).

Submitted by Dawn McIlvain Stahl on Fri, 03/22/2013 - 8:49pm

In the News: After 10 Years, Words of the Iraq War

The invasion of Iraq took place on March 19, 2003—ten years ago.

Submitted by Dawn McIlvain Stahl on Wed, 03/20/2013 - 11:03am

Spring 2013 Updates to the OED Online

Spring is in the air on the calendar, and the Oxford English Dictionary Online has made its first quarterly update of 2013. The OED Online includes “more than 600,000 words”—the full text of the second edition of the Oxford English Dictionary plus all of the revision work that has been done for the new edition.