{"id":3831,"date":"2010-04-18T08:24:37","date_gmt":"2010-04-18T15:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=3831"},"modified":"2010-04-18T09:02:19","modified_gmt":"2010-04-18T16:02:19","slug":"vindication-is-a-dish-best-served-any-old-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=3831","title":{"rendered":"Vindication: a Dish Best Enjoyed in Lowercase"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Land o’ Goshen, the Associated Press Stylebook<\/a> is officially ditching<\/a> “Web site” for “website.”<\/p>\n

Maybe now the copy editors at The New Yorker<\/a> will consider uncapping the “i” in “internet.”<\/p>\n

For years now, I’ve been tripping over The New Yorker’s insistence on capitalizing the “i” in internet.\u00a0 It offends me<\/a>.\u00a0 Who decided “internet” is a proper noun?\u00a0 It’s a thing, like a telephone exchange or a radio network, and who capitalizes telephone or radio?\u00a0 No one, that’s who!<\/p>\n

The New Yorker is famous for its high editing standards, but some of those standards are eccentric (like the toothache-inducing substitution of “vender” for “vendor”), and they are strictly in-house . . . they don’t publish their stylebook.\u00a0 The AP Stylebook, however, is available for purchase, and has long been my bible.\u00a0 When I reported for duty to the US Special Operations Command in 1987, I was issued a 1984 edition of the AP Stylebook.\u00a0 Everything I wrote for USSOCOM had to be in compliance with the AP Stylebook, and I learned to love its simple alphabetical layout.\u00a0 Here’s a short sample:<\/p>\n

lectern, podium, pulpit, rostrum<\/strong> A speaker stands behind a lectern<\/em>, on a podium<\/em> or rostrum<\/em>, or in the pulpit<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Isn’t that easy?\u00a0 And how elegant!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Here’s another:<\/p>\n

palate, palette, pallet<\/strong> Palate<\/em> is the roof of the mouth.\u00a0 A palette<\/em> is an artist’s paint board.\u00a0 A pallet<\/em> is a bed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I decided to order the latest version of the AP Stylebook, so long as they haven’t caved on gantlet\/gauntlet<\/a>.\u00a0 They haven’t<\/a>.\u00a0 Associated Press, my check’s in the mail!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Land o’ Goshen, the Associated Press Stylebook is officially ditching “Web site” for “website.” Maybe now the copy editors at The New Yorker will consider uncapping the “i” in “internet.” For years now, I’ve been tripping over The New Yorker’s insistence on capitalizing the “i” in internet.\u00a0 It offends me.\u00a0 Who decided “internet” is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3831"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3833,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3831\/revisions\/3833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}