The Chicago Manual of Style, 18th edition, some highlights
August 22, 2024
In August 2024, I posted on LinkedIn about the many updates in the new edition of the Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS) by looking at the new edition through a different lens in each post. The following combines my related posts under these headings: accessibility, global examples, geography and maps, artificial intelligence (AI), and still […]
Read MoreEditors and Machine Translations into English
I posted this on LinkedIn on August 22, 2024, in three parts, and I have made some minor additions. How best can editors work on text that has been machine translated into English? While some of my clients do use machine translations, some of my clients do not and advise against using machine translations. When […]
Read MoreDo editors fact-check writing? Fact-checking, accuracy, agreements, standards, and artificial intelligence (AI) including ChatGPT
May 9, 2023
Recently, a colleague on a committee asked me about fact-checking. Do editors actually fact-check the work of writers and subject experts? Shouldn’t the writer or subject editor do this instead of the editor? Accurate? Fact-checked? Always important but even more so with AI Is it accurate? Was it fact-checked? These have always been key questions […]
Read MoreCanadian Spelling: It’s Complicated!
May 1, 2023
May 2023 An editor colleague recently asked in an online editors’ group about how to direct a client to information about Canadian spelling. Like a good number of Canadian editors, I shake my head with frustration: It’s complicated. Canadian English is sometimes presented as half British, half American, but inconveniently neither. However, the real issue […]
Read MoreOn Canadian English and Dictionaries: Q&A
October 12, 2021
Here’s a list of Canadian dictionaries I have on my bookshelf. Question: What stands out? Canadian Oxford Dictionary, 1st edition © 1998; 2nd edition © 2004—edited by Katherine Barber Gage Canadian Dictionary © 1997, “a major revision of Gage Canadian Dictionary © 1983; Canadian Senior Dictionary © 1979; The Senior Dictionary © 1973, 1967” Gage […]
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