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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One word confused with another
Few grudges
Some singular help with plural possessives
Those pesky possessives
Not all fortunes are good
Author! Author!
A “moot” discussion
Lots of “ring” words
What to call those piles of flowers
Terms for sexual identity