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Johnson on Copy Editing

March 17, 2020

27 July 2010

I don’t know what’s in the water these days, but it seems like every single language blog is madly posting about copy editing. I had decided to stop linking to them in order to avoid topic fatigue, but then the Economist’s “Johnson” blog comes along with this post, which is chiefly notable for its very healthy attitude toward citing dictionaries and style guides as authorities.

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