Archive - Strike-Through

“PreK” or “Pre-K”? “Kindergartener” or “Kindergartner”?

A Back-to-School Edition

Sep 7, 2024 •

August 2024

Speaking “Old-Fashionedly”

A Sympathetic Take on “Thou,” “Thee,” “Thy,” and “Thine”

Aug 1, 2024 •

April 2024

“The Chicago Manual of Style” and I Turn to a New Page

Apr 17, 2024 •

March 2024

Happy National Proofreading Day

Teddy Roosevelt, the Copyeditor, Designer, and Proofreader

Mar 6, 2024 •

February 2024

Copyediting Is Not the End, but What Happens Afterward?

A Enthusiastic Recommendation of Debbie Berne’s “The Design of Books”

Feb 24, 2024 •

January 2024

Pass the Tabasco

A Style Primer on Brand Names and Trademarks—and Some History about the Famous Hot Sauce

Jan 3, 2024 •

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December 2023

Surprised by Italics

Copyediting, Joy, and C. S. Lewis

Dec 30, 2023 •

November 2023

Not the “Best-Chosen” Punctuation, At Least by Contemporary Standards

Jane Austen’s Dashes, Semicolons, Hyphens, Commas, and Apostrophes

Nov 1, 2023 •

October 2023

Even Jane Austen Needs a Copyeditor

Why the Famed Novelist’s “Best-Chosen Language” Doesn’t Make Her an Expert on Style and Grammar

Oct 10, 2023 •

July 2023

Binding the Nation through Inserting and Deleting Commas

Abraham Lincoln on Revision

Jul 4, 2023 •

June 2023

Making Manuscripts American

The Role of a Copyeditor in the United States

Jun 8, 2023 •

March 2023

Reading Like a Copyeditor

The Wind in the Willows and the Whole Book Approach

Mar 1, 2023 •

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