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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When words are truncated, spellings differ
Tacking ‘s’ on to some directional words
‘For,’ ‘from,’ and ‘on’ go bye-bye
Learning to dodge clichés
Words that have changed meaning
A dictionary by any other name…
The same word, only different
When a noun is proper, or not
How vulgar can you be?
How to know when ‘for’ needs an ‘e’
