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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Evaluating a ‘journeyman’
Alternating between alternatives
Putting golf terms in context
The etymology of a “clawback”
Everything from 1 to z
A phrase with several meanings
Basis Points
Keeping a reader on the right path
A word used too often, or not enough
A catalog of dialogues