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Category Archives: Style matters

Style matters #10: Who are you speaking to, not with

July 26, 2013by reporting4work Leave a comment

Despite what you might read in certain online forums, you should almost always speak to (or talk to) someone and not speak with (or talk with) them. Broadcasters seem to […]

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Style Matters #9: Wrangling numbers ain’t that hard

July 3, 2013by reporting4work Leave a comment

It is surprising how many writers struggle to master the rules for expressing dates, date ranges, numbers, times, ages, etc. So let’s review the basics, starting with dates. The style […]

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Style Matters #8: Deci- … mate, are we razing our ability to calculate?

July 2, 2013by reporting4work 3 Comments

Yesterday I was reading about the awful fires in Arizona that claimed the lives of 19 brave firefighters when this sentence caught my eye: Officials said they expected about half […]

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Style matters #7: Your ‘career’ is not complete without ‘careen’

May 11, 2013by reporting4work Leave a comment

There is a subtle difference between the verb form of career and its lesser-known – and I would argue increasingly under-used – cousin careen. The word “career” (used in its […]

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Style matters #6: I’m not ‘biased’, so where’s ‘ed’?

May 11, 2013by reporting4work Leave a comment

I suppose I shouldn’t be but I’m always surprised when editing the copy of trained journalists – or, for that matter, grading highly educated university students about to begin their […]

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Style matters #5: When to reject ‘refute’

April 9, 2013by reporting4work Leave a comment

The verb “refute” is often misused by writers. It means to disprove with evidence. Often writers will use it when they really should have used “reject” (to refuse to accept, […]

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Style matters #4: When ‘wake’ is a fright

March 10, 2013by reporting4work 1 Comment

Increasingly we are reading/hearing the phrase “in the wake of …” If one is referring to the disturbed water behind a boat, then that’s fine. For everything else, why not […]

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Style matters #3: Where did ‘fewer’ get to?

March 10, 2013by reporting4work Leave a comment

We’d always been taught that decreasing numbers of things that could be counted – such as objects or people – were fewer in number, while falling volumes – such as […]

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Style matters #2: Slicing the ‘e’ off swathe

March 10, 2013by reporting4work Leave a comment

While working as a sub-editor, an erudite colleague once pointed out to me that while we say – and more often write – the word swathe (which rhymes with lathe) as […]

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Style matters #1: ‘Myriad’ never married ‘of’

February 21, 2013by reporting4work 1 Comment

How many times have you seen a sentence that contained a phrase such as “We were attacked by a myriad of insects and …” OR “They loved him in a myriad of […]

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