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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How to quote e-mail, tweets, and such
Revisiting singular versus plural
First or middle name?
What a difference a letter makes
Another comma goes AWOL
Flimsy votes and arguments
On "jury-rigged" and "jerry-built" confusion
Scams ‘R’ Us
Deriving ‘drink’
Words that topped the lists
