A World Without "Whom"

“Standard practice in entertainment coverage is never to capitalize a job title except when it starts a sentence. The same goes for every position on a movie set: ‘director Martin Scorsese,’ ‘screenwriter Tina Fey,’ etc.

•Use “s” for all singular possessive nouns, e.g., Chris’s, Katniss’s.

“‘Cis-’ is a Latin prefix meaning ‘on the same side as,’ and is therefore an antonym of ‘trans-.’

For a noun or other word that traditionally wouldn’t take a verb form, use a hyphen plus ing to create the verb form if the word ends in a vowel

one important function of the comma is its use in what’s called the vocative case, or when someone (or something—sometimes life gets lonely) is being addressed directly.

The birth of the modern emoticon, grandparent of the emoji, is widely accepted to be attributed to Scott E. Fahlman, a Carnegie Mellon University professor

•Latino surnames often comprise both the maternal and paternal family name

Arabic names are often formatted as personal name + father’s first name + paternal grandfather’s first name, each sometimes offset with bin or ibn (meaning “son of”) or bint (“daughter of”).

1Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. 2Never use a long word where a short one will do. 3If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out. 4Never use the passive where you can use the active. 5Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyd