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Filed under: Little Words Tagged: Chicago Manual of Style, copy editing, Dorothy Parker, poetry, punctuation
Those assiduous scamps at The Chicago Manual of Style just put up their latest style Q&A, or, as The New Yorker would say, Q. & A. This is a new category, by the way, for very short posts. It’s named after a Dorothy Parker poem, “Little Words.” Hope you enjoy it, and thanks, supermen!
