Are you using colons correctly? This post should help you find out. When using colons, the most common pitfall is to confuse their use with that of semicolons (you can revise semicolons with our previous post, Punctuation I: The Semicolon).…
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Yearly Archives: 2016
The word ‘Brexit’ is factually incorrect
This is more of a geographical than lexical post, but relates to a mistake that is made by writers, journalists, politicians and myriad others on a daily basis: ‘UK’, ‘Britain’ and ‘the British Isles’ are not interchangeable. In the wake…
Tagged with: Brexit, Britain, British Isles, England, etymology, geography, Great Britain, Northern Ireland, political, region, Scotland, UK, United Kingdom, Wales
Posted in Etymology, Geography, Proofreading/copy-editing, Vocabulary
Posted in Etymology, Geography, Proofreading/copy-editing, Vocabulary
How to use Find and Replace
When proofreading or editing in Microsoft Word, the Find and Replace feature can be an invaluable timesaving tool and assurance of consistency. If you’re not already using it, now is the time to start! What is Find and Replace? Most…
Tagged with: document, error, find, find and replace, microsoft, prep, proofread, replace, replace all, search, tool, Word
Posted in Grammar, Proofreading/copy-editing, Punctuation, Spelling, Style
Posted in Grammar, Proofreading/copy-editing, Punctuation, Spelling, Style
Consistency
This is something I find myself repeating day in, day out: The key is consistency. There are plenty of rules that must be followed in writing, but, at the same time, there are different styles that can be adopted but…
Tagged with: capitalisation, consistency, decision, find and replace, format, headings, punctuation, spelling, style
Posted in Capitalisation, Proofreading/copy-editing, Punctuation, Spelling, Style
Posted in Capitalisation, Proofreading/copy-editing, Punctuation, Spelling, Style