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Identification, please

From “front-runner” to “casino mogul,” editors must be careful when applying identifying words and phrases to people.

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Yesterday’s gone

- For what seemed like forever, copy editors embraced the routine task of changing the days of the week in stories to “yesterday,” “today,” and “tomorrow.”

The overuse of exclamation points!

- E-mails and text messages have pushed the exclamation epidemic to a dire point. There’s now a name for it – the very unpleasant slang “bangorrhea.”

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Clanging off the rim

- Should headline writers give in to the temptation of terms like “Linsanity”? Or should they stick with words that actually exist?

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Bias is a four-letter word

- Like Tim Thomas, copy editors are the goalies of the newsroom. Nothing should get by them, including bias, even if unintentional.