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  1. The Thorn Word pulse.me/s/9gwIb 8:47 AM May 15th via Pulse News
  2. A nice business card template for editors: bit.ly/Jl5KfQ 6:02 PM May 11th via TweetDeck
  3. Knock-knock. Who's there? To. To who? No, you're supposed to say "to whom"! #grammarjokes 7:51 AM May 5th via Echofon
  4. Cool! Word-by-Word Pictures of the History of English zite.to/IR1Hqk via @zite 5:16 PM May 1st via Zite Personalized Magazine
  5. In case you didn't know: The New Yorker’s Umlaut Is Actually a Diaeresis : The New Yorker zite.to/JucSEi via @zite 8:32 PM Apr 27th via Zite Personalized Magazine
  6. In case you missed this exchange in February. Also introducing the Fake CMoS. Hillarious. bit.ly/IaeTEu 9:10 AM Apr 27th via TweetDeck
  7. Microsoft Word Is Cumbersome, Inefficient, and Obsolete. It’s Time for It To Die. slate.com/articles/techn… via @slate 7:38 AM Apr 11th via Tweet Button
  8. Motion Capture Demystifies Conducting pulse.me/s/7Up89 9:05 AM Apr 7th via Pulse News
  9. New month. Time for a new @ChicagoManual Q&A: bit.ly/1Sfklu. Great advice as always. #copyediting 9:06 AM Apr 2nd via TweetDeck
  10. Most words formed with the prefix "pre-" don't take a hyphen (e.g., precooked). An important exception is "pre-position." #copyediting 9:19 AM Mar 31st via TweetDeck
  11. @ButMadNNW Agreed. My wife has been spotting it in some of her vet sci journals, and I wondered if it was some horrible new fad. 11:13 AM Mar 28th via TweetDeck in reply to ButMadNNW
  12. Poll: How many of you work with journals/house styles that insist on no period in et al.? #copyediting #abbreviations 11:09 AM Mar 28th via TweetDeck
  13. If you want to confuse people, use "stabile" instead of "stable" (when you mean "stationary," not in the art/architecture sense). 1:35 PM Mar 26th via TweetDeck
  14. Cormac McCarthy, Quantum Copy Editor zite.to/wSpSx7 via @zite 8:18 AM Feb 21st via Zite Personalized Magazine
  15. Kerning pulse.me/s/5PHeC 9:25 PM Feb 11th via Pulse News
  16. Anyone want to participate in or offer thoughts on this logo design contest for my wife's new vet clinic? bit.ly/xVZSe5 6:09 PM Feb 8th via TweetDeck
  17. As a copyeditor i often want 2 add such asides! RT @GrammarMonkeys: little asides in @TheEconomist often make me smile: twitter.com/GrammarMonkeys… 11:16 AM Feb 7th via Echofon
  18. Lexicon Valley, a new podcast series from Slate. First episode covers ending sentences with a preposition: slate.me/zL2oNx 6:57 AM Feb 7th via TweetDeck