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Manager Monday: Striving Toward Inclusive Language

By Olenka Burgess lennykata

August 22, 2016 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Manager Monday: Striving Toward Inclusive Language

This past April, while many of my fellow Ooligan students were at AWP 2016 in Los Angeles, I opted for a conference that was smaller yet just as important: ACES 2016, the twentieth anniversary of the American Copy Editors Society’s annual festival of unabashed grammar geekery and word nerdery, lovingly dubbed “Comma-Con” by some of […]

Filed Under: Manager Monday Tagged With: bias, Conscious Style Guide, Editing, Karen Yin, Kory Stamper, Language, panel, singular they, Style Guide

The Singular “They” is Here to Stay, and You’re Going to Like It

By Chelsea Lobey

August 19, 2016 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

The Singular “They” is Here to Stay, and You’re Going to Like It

The use of the singular “they” is so common in American speech that I find it a little funny that I’m writing about it. And yet, here I am. We say it all the time: “Everyone wants their cat to look cool on Halloween.” You know, as the saying goes. For ages it seemed, written […]

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: grammar, Language, singular they, writing

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