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Abbreviations
In quotes
PS
States
Versus
Captions
Identifiers in
Names in
Overprinted
Common Mistakes
Clichés
Confused expressions
Confused words
Correcting people’s speech
Double ‘is’
False comparisons
Mispronounced/misspelled
Overediting
Plurals of proper names
Preventing
Rewriting text on color proofs
Sneak/sneaked (not snuck)
Unnecessary words
Weak ledes
Commonly Confused Word Pairs
A/an
All/all of
Although/though
Anxious/eager
As if/as though
Auger/augur
Because of/due to
Center on
Cinch/clinch
Commonly confused words
Compared with/compared to
Complementary/complimentary
Concrete/cement
Convince/persuade
Despite/in spite of
Discreet/discrete
E.g./i.e.
Everyday/every day, one
Everyday/every day, two
Everyday/every day, three
Evoke/invoke
Feeling bad (not badly)
Good/well
Green/eco
Hanged/hung
High/tall
Historic/historical
Home/hone
I/me
If/whether
Immigrate/emigrate
Imply/infer
In/into
Lie/lay
Lineal/linear
Long term/short term
Mantel/mantle
May/might
Medium/media
Palate/palette/pallet
Pore/pour
Proved/proven, one
Proved/proven, two
Renown/renowned
Square feet/feet square, one
Square feet/feet square, two
That/who
Toward/towards
Transparent/translucent/opaque
Try and/try to
Whoever/whomever
Win/winner
FREE REIN
Free rein, one
Free rein, two
LIKE
-like
Hyphenating ‘like’
Like/such as, one
Like/such as, two
PIE/WEDGE
Pie-shape
Wedge-shape
Commonly Misused Words
Admit
Anniversaries
Apropos
Awhile
Back side
Caramel
Circa
Cobblestones
Colonial
Dilemma, one
Dilemma, two
Extra
Hopefully
Impact
Last
Literally
Marbled
Notorious
OK
Only
Pendant
Sync
Toward
Unique
Using ‘oh so’
Whose
COUPLE
Couple, one
Couple, two
Couple as collective noun
Comparatives/Superlatives
Comparatives, superlatives, one
Comparatives, superlatives, two
Conjunctions
Dropping from a series
Starting sentences with
Contractions
Contractions, one
Contractions, two
Dimensions
Dimension x
Dimensions
Directionals
Commas with
Directionals
Foreign Words
Accent marks
Auld lang syne
Blasé
Britishisms
Chaise longue
Faux
Foreign articles in surnames
Italicizing foreign words
Provence
Translating
Genders
Gender-specific titles
Names of spouse, minor
Nonsexist writing
Geography
City/state/country names
Geographic regions
Listing cities with phone numbers
Names based on place names
Stand-alone cities, one
Stand-alone cities, two
State abbreviations
State names
State names as modifiers
State names with cities
EARTH
Capitalizing earth
Earth, earth
Holiday References
Luminaria
New Year's
Thanksgiving history
Thanksgiving terms
Hyphenated Words
Four-poster
Look-alike
Mid-
Identifications
Anonymous homeowners
Business names
Contributing title
Courtesy and professional titles
Degrees/certifications
Designer-builder
Professional certifications
Web-based business names
Idioms
Idioms, one
Idioms, two
Idioms, three
Inclusion
Inclusive writing, one
Inclusive writing, two
Inclusive writing, three
Interjections
F-words
Spelling interjections
Italics
Bold, ital in Quark
Italicizing foreign words
Italics for thoughts
Parentheses with italic type
Lists
Brand names
Business names
Gender-specific titles
Good-bye words
Heart words
Heavenly words
Hellish words
Leap words
Names of spouse, minor
Revelation words
State names
Thank-you words
Web-based business names
Word list: A, B
Word list: C
Word list: D
Work words
GARDEN
Grass names
Grasses
Plant names
Rose names
Mastheads
Masthead procedures
Mastheads
Mastheads, postal IDs
Misc.
-ed rule
Acronyms
Administrative notes
Adoption
Alliteration
Antecedents for ‘it’
Appliances
Attributing reader letters
Auld lang syne
Back issue sales
Country French
Dates on routing slips
Diseases and disorders
Dollar signs
Dummy type
Eebies
E-mail group lists
Emphasizing words
End bug placement
Essential/nonessential information
Fun and games
Hierarchy of dictionaries
Line breaks
Negative constructions
New crafts section
No superscript in ordinals
Passive voice, one
Passive voice, two
Pull quote attribution
Reference books
Repeating words
Seasons
Sequence of tenses
Special online archive quiz, one
Special online archive quiz, two
Tautologies
Temperatures
Text within photos
Thank you as a verb
Unfriend
Wal-Mart
When Harry Met Sally ledes
Working with CEs
Misc. Terms
Gold terms
Internet terms
Year-related terms
Modifiers
-ed in compound modifiers
Compound modifiers
Dangling modifiers
Hyphenating compound modifiers
State names as modifiers
Names
Compound last names
First versus last names
Niche Caps
Niche caps, one
Niche caps, two
Numbers
Checking numbers
Commas in numbers
Heights/range limits
Hyphen after numbers
Number ranges, limits
Number sign
Numbered items in a list
Numbers as figurative speech
Numbers in lists
Numbers, text within photos
Simplify ratios
Square feet/feet square, one
Square feet/feet square, two
DATES
9/11/ground zero
B.C./A.D.
Calendar years in text
Circa
Commas in dates
Copyright date
Dates
Dates on routing slips
Year-related terms
PHONE NUMBERS
Alphanumeric phone numbers, one
Alphanumeric phone numbers, two
Phone numbers
Toll-call phone numbers
POSTAL IDs
Mastheads, postal IDs
Postal ID statements, one
Postal ID statements, two
Postal IDs
Offensive terms
F-words
Offensive terms
Oriental
Retarded
Swear words that aren’t
Palladian
Palladian
Palladian windows
Parallel Structure
Parallel structure, one
Parallel structure, two
Parts of Speech
Adjective suffixes
Strong verb
NOUNS
Capitalizing proper nouns
Collective nouns
Common nouns as proper nouns
Couple as collective noun
Gerunds
Noun suffixes
PREPOSITIONS
Commas with prepositional phrases
Dangling prepositions
No colons after prepositions
Prepositions
Prepositions as verb forms
PRONOUNS
For people of unknown sex
Reflexive pronouns
They, them
Photo Credits
Credits
Photo credits, one
Photo credits, two
Photo credits, three
Photo credits, four
Photo credits, five
Phrases/Clauses
Clauses
Essential phrases
Phrases, clauses
Possessives
Overuse of possessives
Possessives, one
Possessives, two
With gerunds
Prefixes/Suffixes
Adjective suffixes
Noun suffixes
Prefixes
Spelling by root words
Super
Wise as a suffix
Punctuation
Accent marks
Brackets in quotes
Ellipses
Exclamation points
Inside or outisde quotation marks
Spaces between sentences
Tabs instead of spaces
APOSTROPHE
Apostrophe direction
Apostrophe versus open single quote
COLON
Capitals after colons
Colons
No colons after prepositions
COMMA
Ampersand
Commas in dates
Commas in numbers
Comma outside quotes
Commas with appositives
Commas with directionals
Commas with prepositional phrases
HYPHEN
Dashes
Hyphenating compound modifiers
Hyphenating “like”
Hyphenation rules
Hyphens
Hyphens after numbers
PARENTHESES
Parentheses
Parentheses with italic type
PERIOD
Overprinted captions
Periods in resources
Questions
Late-stage questions
Questions
Quotes
Abbreviations in quotes
Brackets in quotes
Cleaning up grammar in quotes
Comma outside quotes
Just ‘says’
Quote attributions, part 1
Quote attributions, part 2
Quotes, one
Quotes, two
Quotes around single words
Quoting Shakespeare
Single quotes in display type
With other punctuation
Ranges
False ranges
Number ranges, limits
Page ranges
Range limits, one
Range limits, two
Redundancies
Redundancies, one
Redundancies, two
Religious References
Bible, god
Heavenly words
Hellish words
SIM/Procedure
New name: Special Interest Media
Routing through Legal
SIM color rule, one
SIM color rule, two
SIM layouts
SIM manuscripts
SIM routing slips
SIM style changes
SIM Web site titles
SIMstylebook.com launched
Special Interest Publications
Style updates
Special Issues
100th issue contest
200 trivia/apropos
300th issue video
A Christmas poem
Christmas letter 2009
Valentine to TEAL
William Safire
Spelling
Affect/effect
Anyone/any one
Cardstock
Complement/compliment
Desert/dessert
Discrete/discreet
Everyday/every day
Hashtag
Meddle/mettle/medal/metal
Palate/palette
Snugly/snuggly
T-shirt
Who’s/whose
Woodburning/wood-burning
Wrack/rack
Yea/yeah
Subjunctive Mood
Subjunctive mood, one
Subjunctive mood, two
Trademark/Copyright
Copyright date
Trademarks, part one
Trademarks, part two
Web Addresses/Computer Tips
Breaking web addresses, one
Breaking web addresses, two
Breaking web addresses, three
Computer commands
Control-click
Facebook links
InDesign CS2 tips
Internet terms
Long Web addresses
New database
Redirects
Returns, hard and soft
Spell-check
Track changes in Word
Tweet lengths
Web-based business names
Wikipedia
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