by Murugaraj | Nov 11, 2010 | Resources
Searching the Internet is an art. Almost anyone with an Internet connection has used a search engine at least once. If you are a professional editor, hundreds of times a day! But has your search always gave what you wanted? Have you ever tried “GRT” to...
by Murugaraj | Oct 28, 2010 | Activities, Making of an editor
Glad to meet you again. I would like to take you to Carol Fisher Saller’s copyediting quiz. That is a small list of nine sentences. Try them out and see for yourself your copyediting skills. In her next post, First Do No Harm, she discussed the answers, too. But...
by Murugaraj | Sep 6, 2010 | Grammar & Usage
Here is another trivia. The indefinite pronoun “each” is singular. It takes a singular verb. Each creation is different. Note that “each” comes before a singular noun and takes a singular verb. If “each” is followed by an...
by Murugaraj | Aug 30, 2010 | Uncanny Connections
I came across the abbreviation MEXT, which stands for the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. You expect the abbreviation to be MECSST. Someone was ingenious, thought MECSST was boring, and suggested MEXT – the way MECSST will be...
by Murugaraj | Aug 27, 2010 | Miscellaneous
Everyone aware of the US/UK variant in spellings is well aware that words ending in “-er” in US spelling end in “-re” in UK spelling. For example, “fiber” and “fibre”; “titer” and “titre”. One...
by Murugaraj | Aug 23, 2010 | Copyediting Capers
In his blog Ask the Agent, Andy Ross interviewed Mary Norris of the New Yorker. In a comment, one Ravikumar, apparently from my state, Tamil Nadu, lamented that “we publish hundreds of weeklies and thousands of books every year. but there is no copy editor...
by Murugaraj | Jul 20, 2010 | Grammar & Usage
In a recent interview aired on channel Star Vijay, Gopinath interviewed a Tamil actor. The actor was recalling how he felt it difficult to perform certain dance movements. When Gopinath asked the actor how one of his co-actors dances, he said, “He is a good...
by Murugaraj | Jul 18, 2010 | Copyediting Capers
The draft version of the first sentence of my first blog post ((faulty) parallelism) read thus: As part of rebuilding this blog (I started this way back in 2008, with nothing being posted till now), I was skimming through various WordPress pages. When I read the entry...
by Murugaraj | Jul 16, 2010 | Grammar & Usage
As part of rebuilding this blog (I started this blog way back in 2008, with nothing being posted till now), I was skimming through various WordPress pages. In the About page, I saw this sentence: It also means you are free to use it [WordPress] for anything from your...
