Checklist
Attached is a comprehensive checklist for all copyeditors.
Archive for September, 2007
A copyeditor’s checklist
Posted in Copyediting/Proofreading on September 26, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Punctuation Guide
Posted in Grammar on September 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Punctuation Guide
If you have read the punctuation book “Eats, shoots and leaves” by Lynne Truss, here’s a companion to it: A PDF document with a brief outline of the rules of punctuation along with exercises( and the answers in the end).
One language “disappears” every 14 days!
Posted in General on September 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Check out this alarming fact!
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-language19sep19,1,1715782.story?ctrack=1&cset=true
Dropping the hyphen
Posted in Language on September 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s an article about how the hyphen is being dropped from most words these days…officially.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7004661.stm
My Work Experience
Posted in General on September 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Grammar, Punctuation and Style
Posted in Useful Links on September 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s a great guide to grammar, punctuation and style.
http://grammar.uoregon.edu/toc.html
Why are there silent letters in English spelling?
Posted in Language on September 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Etymology is the reason there are so many silent letters in English spelling. Etymology is the study of the history of words, and there was a widespread view that words should show their history in the way they are spelled. There was a genuine belief that it would help people if they could ’see’ the [...]
The Great Vowel Shift
Posted in Language on September 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A series of changes affecting the long vowels of English, known as the Great Vowel Shift, took place in the early 1400s. Before the shift, a word like loud would have been pronounced ‘lood’, name as ‘nahm’, leaf as ‘layf’, mice as ‘mees’. Although the shift had no clear beginning or end, the majority of [...]
The First English Copyeditor
Posted in General on September 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
William Caxton introduced the printing press around 1400.In the prologue to the first book to be printed in England, The Recuyell(compilation) of the Historyes of Troy, he reflects on his experience in the translating business. He met Lady Margaret, the sister of King Edward IV, and happened to mention what he had done.She gave her critique [...]
100 Most Mispronounced Words
Posted in Language on September 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s a list of 100 most mispronounced words:
http://www.yourdictionary.com/library/mispron.html
