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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Help with numbers
Getting stuck on plurals
Prepositions and crime
Zealousness over correctness
Why English is so hard
Plum loco
When possession is the law
Of birth, and being borne
The optics of metrics
Where to point the finger