Ebook: But can I start a sentence with "But"? : advice from the Chicago style Q&A
- Tags: Authorship -- Handbooks manuals etc., Authorship -- Style manuals., Art d'écrire -- Codes typographiques., Art d'écrire -- Guides manuels etc., Authorship.
- Series: Chicago guides to writing editing and publishing
- Year: 2016
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press
- Language: English
- epub
Q. Is it "happy medium" or "happy median"? My author writes: "We would all be much better served as stewards of finite public funds if we could find that happy median where trust reigns supreme." Thanks!
A. The idiom is "happy medium," but I like the image of commuters taking refuge from road rage on the happy median.
Q. How do I write a title of a song in the body of the work (caps, bold, underline, italics, etc.)? Example: The Zombies' "She's Not There" looped in his head.
A. Noooo! Now that song is looping in my head ("but it's too late to say you're sorry . . ."). Use quotation marks. Thanks a lot.
Every month, tens of thousands of self-declared word nerds converge upon a single site: The Chicago Manual of Style Online's Q&A. There the Manual's editors open the mailbag and tackle readers' questions on topics ranging from abbreviation to word division to how to reform that coworker who still insists on two spaces between sentences....