Merrill Perlman managed copy desks across the newsroom at the New York Times, where she worked for twenty-five years. Follow her on Twitter at @meperl.
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A discussion of spaceage
The difference between "gambling" and "gaming"
Gender politics and their words
Prefixes that make opposites, or not
When to use commas between adjectives
When ‘get’ is in the past
Nuclear attainment
Hyphenating (some) adverbs
Many ways to describe death
Opposite idioms