TootsNYC (or, The Great Queen Copyeditor)

The Company Writes! We've accepted "the company said" as shorthand for "an official-looking press release said." A...

Greenfield or Green Field From a CNN story http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/social.media/07/12/google.plus.reboot/index.html?iref=NS1 Much as I...

Like vs. As Oops--hyper correctness! Catch this: Just as the Swiss Army knife, the smartphone succeeds in some occasions and fails in other...

Eeks! From a post on CNN.com, about Haiti's potential new prime minister: Hundreds of thousands of those people are still eeking out ex...

Dictionary Diving I had this wrong! If I'd actually *studied* Latin along w/ The Girl, I'd know, right? We were using the Latin term...

Today's Cool Dictionary  Fact I'm looking up the phrase "to a T." It appears in all caps, in a head so no period at the en...

Comma, No Comma Here's today's, from copy describing dresses: in simple, floor-skimming styles Your vote?