Woke Editing and Proofreading
What is woke editing? Some copy-editors are woke, some achieve wokeness, others are definitely anything but woke. What would woke editing actually look like? It would be dangerous for anyone over [...]
Who’s in Charge Here? Words, Usage, and Change
Who’s in Charge of Words? Who is in charge of the English language? It's all gone to pot! If you rail against change perhaps you should keep a more open [...]
Enormity, Glimmer and Friends: Changing Words
Oh, for a Glimmer of Sanity! All is flux. Not a glimmer remains. Why can’t things just stay as they are? I blame the Americans. Our language, our revered mother [...]
BIG CHANGE FOR COPY-EDITORS
Chapterhouse has been teaching people to copy-edit and proofread for twenty-five years! We ran our first little seminar in our sitting room with a log fire and red wine. Then [...]
WORDS FOR EDITORS: ENORMITY
Enormous Change Editors and proofreaders accept change. In standard English enormity now relates to size, the hugeness of something. We might say that the enormity of her knowledge was legend [...]