What’s in a Word?
The Canadian Press has issued its new editor’s handbook, and it has some new advice for editors who need or want to print “the eff word,” apparently since editors have asked for guidance. “We found the word was creeping into our news stories on a fairly regular basis,” said the handbook’s editor, Patti Tasko. Her advice: just print the word — don’t dash it out and certainly don’t refer to it as the “eff word.” The story reporting on the change, however, never quite identified exactly which word the story was reporting on. (Canadian Press) ...Fuddle duddle it, then, eh?
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