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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Springing to the past
Counting on grammar rules
Not-so-subtle clues
AP makes more changes
Not-quite words for natural disasters
Making some nouns more feminine
Some notes on “protégés," "mentors," and manatees
Old phone terms hang on
‘Nondescript’ says more than ‘plain’
Just what constitutes a “record”?
