April 15, 2005

Do newspapers editors have style? Hundreds of pages as matter of fact

I got a good kick out of the Daily Camera story about the ?grammar-grounded? Boulder resident who thinks the missing hyphen in Boulder?s new retail project, Twenty Ninth Street, is ?illiterate.?

Actually, when I first heard the name, I thought it should be 29th Street. After all, that?s Associated Press style ? and the stylebook (with 413 pages of grammar and spellings) is the newspaper editor?s Bible (always capitalize).

Readers love to find newspaper mistakes. I sort of thrive on it myself. Just writing this column gives me a chill because I know you?re out there poring (not pouring) over…

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