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Years ago, copy editors worked at large U-shaped tables. The chief editor's desk, in the opening of the "U," was "the slot." Copy went from rim editors to a slot editor for a final read. Rimmers proudly called themselves rimrats.
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I'm planning to review "Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies."
I'm going to review "The New Well-Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Guide for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed" by Karen Elizabeth Gordon.
I'd like to do "The Grouchy Grammarian: A How-not-to Guide to the 47 Most Common Mistakes in English Made By Journalists, Broadcasters, and Others Who Should Know Better."
Whew! That's a mouth-full. =)
I'm going to do "Sleeping Dogs Don't Lay: Practical Advice for the Gramatically Challenged"
I'm planning to review "Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English" by Patricia T. O'Conner.
I'm Terry O'Reilly by the way. Sorry for the random screen name. :-)
I've got "Lapsing into a Comma: A Curmudgeon's Guide to the Many Things that Can Go Wrong in Print and How to Avoid Them" by Bill Walsh.
"Grammatically Correct" - Anne Stilman
I call "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation," by Lynne Truss
(Sa-weet!)
I'd like to review "Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose."
I just noticed my "Sin and Syntax" is not on the list, so here's some more info on it. It's by Constance Hale, Broadway Books, 2001.
Thanks!
Hopefully I can review O'Conner's "Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English."
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