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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“Ginning up” won’t make you drunk
Spelling “foreign” words
“Secular” moves from the church to the state
Is it OK to omit the “of” after “couple”?
Describing an uproar with fun words
What the fire department doesn’t tell you
The criminalization of a word
Pick your prefix: “dis” or “un”?
Avoiding “such as” problems
What do you say when you call?
