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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 the good editors can do, with activity and inactivity.

“On Writing Well” author William Zinsser dies at age 92. Legions of writers practice his straightforward writing approach.

“Weird Al” Yankovic’s “Word Crimes” parody video has linguists and copy editors debating what constitutes “proper” usage.

At the American Copy Editors Society’s 2014 convention, “Regret the Error” author Craig Silverman describes how copy editors can help stanch the flow of falsehoods