Words. Words about words. Words about copyediting. The occasional cultural observation.
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I’ve seen the future . . .
I’m marching along with time.
I’ll be marching from time to time.
For I’m not gonna let the parade go by.
You know that time marches on, and so do I.
—Irving Berlin, “Marching Along with Time”
I’ve seen the future, brother, it is mu...
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I’d be keen, it occurs to me, to know what copyeditorial (and related) matters you might have questions about. After nearly 225 installments of this A Word About . . . series, I feel as if I’ve covered just about everything I know, but of c...
Another Word for Thesaurus;
All I wanted to do, earlier today, was to drop a casual social-media observation about my frustrating inability to watch more than a thirteen-minute YouTube snippet, all I could find in the moment, of the 1957 live telecast of the play The...
“It will be like this forever.”
I was delighted the other day to receive my first copy of the University of Chicago Press republication of Sally Benson’s marvelously endearing novel Meet Me in St. Louis, and I’m also delighted to share a few snaps of it.
Front (featurin...
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I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’ve been having a deuce of a time concentrating lately, what with the grisly incursions of reality and all, and I find myself, in the attempt to get something—anything—done, idling away the time, fro...
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