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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The gospel of merging words
The magic of a deceptive word
A popular suffix gets even more so
Yahoo shows why the Web really is different
Misplaced modifiers can confuse and amuse
Trademarks that no one treats as such
Is ‘proved’ the same as ‘proven’?
When numbers are meaningless
There’s more than one way to blot a spill
A ‘hyphen’ is not a ‘dash’
