AP changes "e-mail" to "email"

SEO requires better use of characters.

 

Same here. I'll use the hyphen.

 

Did I hear right, that "coach" is now going upstyle?

That's going to bother me a LOT more than "email" if it's true. I despise over-capitalization of titles.

 

This is what is known as porn for copy editors... Coming up, the debate over whether Oklahoma City needs a state in the dateline and the great RBI vs. RBIs debate.

 

Because, of course, the greatest writers are on far too high a plane to be bothered by a silly thing such as style.

Some things never change.

 

Not at all. A good copy editor is worth his weight in gold.

I just always was of the mindset of "Tell me what the style is, and I'll follow it, I don't need to understand the thinking behind it."

 

Based on most of the copy editors I worked with, that amount of gold would require a heist along the lines of "Kelly's Heroes."

 

Knowing the logic behind a style rule gives you the understanding of what a new style rule should be, should one pop up. For instance, in the Great Argument of "RBI" or "RBIs," you create a standard for dealing with plural acronyms in which the "s" does not appear at the end of the last word. I'm all for "RBI" because if we use "RBIs," we should also use "WARs" (wins above replacement) and "BBs" (bases on balls -- so perhaps "BBss").

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Also, rmanfredi, they were probably right to change your lead that one time.

 

My first thought: Guess we're stuck with "US" without periods in headlines.

 

Yeah, that was C- work there.

 

I sat through what seemed like an hourlong diatribe on RBIs vs. RBI when I started covering baseball. I said, "It would never occur to me to make it plural." and that was the answer our copy chief wanted.

My second paper used RBIs. Fortunately, I was covering basketball and football by then.