Certain words and phrases rise to prominence every year, capturing the zeitgeist. Every December, I love reading the words of the year from the major dictionaries. For 2024, Merriam-Webster chose “polarization” as its word of the year, Oxford University Press…
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One of the most common issues we run into as editors is capitalization—starting certain words with a capital letter or using capital letters for entire words.
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