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:: Monday, June 02, 2003 ::

The new stylebooks are in! The new stylebooks are in!
Yes, it's a gala day (wav file) here in the UMR Public Relations Office. We've just received our new AP Stylebooks! The AP Stylebook is the journalist's Bible, the definitive word when it comes to the proper use of the language for U.S. newspapers (and a valuable reference for news release writers). This new version is sleeker than the 2000 model. Among the new entries (with explanatory notes, where applicable):

al-Qaida

bioterrorism

Saddam Use Saddam in second reference to Iraq's Saddam Hussein.

And, of course, the most important entry:

blog Internet jargon; if used, explain that it means Web log or Web journal.

Reading the new stylebook is going to be so much fun! But not as much fun as reading the old UPI Stylebook, which hasn't been updated since the early 1990s, I think. That's about the time UPI, for all intents and purposes, ceased to exist as a wire service. But UPI had a much more entertaining way with words. For example, the old UPI Stylebook included this, my favorite, entry:

burro, burrow A burro is an ass. A burrow is a hole in the ground. As a journalist, you are expected to know the difference.

:: Andrew 14:38 + ::
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