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What buzzwords should you avoid in your resumé? Also in today’s News Roundup: incredible, the Times-Picayune, what we call lefties, infants and short police, and your Friday bonus.

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“Stop Using These 16 Terms to Describe Yourself”: As you look over your profile and resumé, avoid these words. (LinkedIn)

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It’s not enough to have a love of the Bard in your blood. Soon you may need to have a backup copy of his works stored in DNA.

We love to take apart big speeches. Was Obama’s inaugural address scrutinized fairly or peevishly nitpicked? Also in today’s News Roundup: FT is going digital first, Wordnik’s parent is growing its digital offerings, examining Twitter publishing methods, and untangling wigs.

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“Obama’s Second Inaugural: Behind the Words”: Fair scrutiny or peevish nitpicking? (Word Routes)

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Will we start using themself … again? Also in today’s News Roundup: a social media schedule for freelancers, owning multiple dictionaries, pronoun antecedents, and how not to correct your author. Welcome to Wednesday, copyeditors!

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Once an acceptable word. will themself become one again? Read the argument for it in “Should It Be Everyone for Themself Where Grammar’s Concerned?” (OxfordWords)

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What copyeditors can learn from Jodie Foster’s memorable speech. Also in today’s News Roundup: freelancer fears and 10 tips for dealing with them, adjectives that we don’t think are adjectives, and a silly sentence with 15 prepositions.

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“The Genius of Jodie Foster’s Speech”: The power of rhetoric made Foster’s speech something memorable. (The Guardian)

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In an interesting twist for the end of this Word of the Year season, Mental Floss has done a brief summary of the WOTY choices here in the United States and a roundup of “8 Words of the Year from Other Countries.”

What’s the problem with due to? Also in today’s News Roundup: verb forms, literary present, parallelism, and editing at the Christian Science Monitor.

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“The Foggy, Foggy Due”: Due to is just fine, says John McIntyre. Believe him. (You Don’t Say)

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Publishers may someday onshore their copyediting again. Also in today’s News Roundup: understand the rules we criticize, a memorable marketing idea, nouning verbs, and K-9.

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Are publishers starting to see the problems with offshoring their copyediting? Rich Adin discusses the possibility in “The Business of Editing: Will the Tide Turn for Us?” (An American Editor)

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We here at Copyediting get revved up about Word of the Year contests. Last night, I attended the Word of the Year vote in Boston with the group that originated the contest, the American Dialect Society (ADS). The ADS’s vote is all in fun, demonstrating that “that language change is normal, ongoing, and entertaining,” according to the society’s website.

The American Dialect Society’s nominations for 2012 Word of the Year are out! And in -- a crossword puzzle!