A Word About...
Benjamin DreyerWords. Words about words. Words about copyediting. The occasional cultural observation.
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It's today!
In honor of what would have been the 100th birthday (it’s today! October 16, 2025!1) of the divine Angela Lansbury, here’s one of my favorite little bits of text magic:
Old Acquaintance
[Given that this missive includes seventeen footnotes, I might do well to remind you that you don’t have to violently scroll down and up and down and up to read them; you can simply, depending on what sort of machine you’re reading on, hove...
Monday, Monday
Tomorrow (that would be Monday the 6th of October) is the kickoff to my StoryStudio Chicago intensive A Copy Editor’s Guide: Four Lessons on the Art, Craft, and Refinement of Prose.
Forget grammar and think about potatoes.
If you recall last week’s mystery quote—“A pretense of depth and profundity that does not bear fruit under scrutiny! Reading it, I feel that it’s the work of a fraud—an empress without clothes!”—I can now reveal, as no one has correctly gue...
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America's Copy Editor® • author of the New York Times/IndieBound bestseller Dreyer's English and Stet! (the game!) • copy chief and managing editor of Random House (ret.) • abstruse in the sense of recondite • he/him/his • \ud83c\udff3️\ud83c\udf08
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