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Recovering Grammar Stickler

April 21, 2016 By Julie

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 […]

Filed Under: Grammar, Usage Tagged With: usage, words

Copy Editing or Copyediting?

June 27, 2015 By Julie

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 […]

Filed Under: Business Tagged With: copy editing, style, usage

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