Hello. My name is Julie, and I’m a recovering grammar stickler. I used to be more than happy to inform someone that their choice of the word nauseous would be better if replaced with nauseated. Read “What words ‘should’ mean and what they actually mean” to see the example of how decimate has changed meaning […]
Copy Editing or Copyediting?
I am a copy editor, and I do copy editing. Or is that copyediting? I started gathering and writing up my thoughts for this blog post in Word, and I noticed that both terms are acceptable (no dotted red line underneath the words). But upon transferring the text into this post, that little red line […]