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Wordnik launches Kickstarter campaign to fund a search for a million “missing words.”

It’s dead to me:  The new language of hyperbole.

Longtime New Yorker copy editor Mary Norris describes all the good things editors can do with both activity and inactivity.

“On Writing Well” author William Zinsser dies at age 92, leaving legions of practitioners of his simple, straightforward writing approach.

“Weird Al” Yankovic’s “Word Crimes” parody video touches off debate among linguists and copyeditors about what constitutes “proper” usage.

At the American Copy Editors Society’s 2014 convention in Las Vegas, Craig Silverman, author of “Regret the Error,” describes how copyeditors can help stanch the flow of falsehoods.