What Does an Editor Know? A Quiz

To celebrate the end of another decade, we’ve put together eleven questions designed to test your knowledge of some random editorial facts.

Chicago, MLA, APA, AP:
What’s the Difference?

Okay, so you’re an editor or proofreader who knows Chicago style, but now you need to follow AP. Or you’re a student, and you need MLA for one project and Chicago (or Turabian) for the next—and APA after that. . . .

Where Are You on Our Grammar-Stickler Sliding Scale?

On a scale of 1 to 10, can you guess how big a stickler you are? (Your friends and colleagues probably can.) Just for fun, measure your peeving profile with this quiz.

First Friday Shop Talk
(Plus: Win CMOS and SSF for a year!)

If you could design the perfect app for writers or editors, what would it be? What chore would you love to be automated with a tap on your keyboard or phone?

New “looks” for the Manual?

When we saw the beautiful graphics recently in the Washington Post that Princeton neuroscientist Adam J. Calhoun created from famous works, we couldn’t help but wonder how The Chicago Manual of Style would hold up under the same scrutiny.

Facing the new year with resolve

What do you resolve for 2016? Comments are open—feel free to share!

CMOS Challenge

Quiz 2: Which is not Chicago style?

Do you know your misles from your mondegreens?

Language has the power to both delight and confuse, and there are names for some of our most common confusions. Here are a few linguistic gaffes you will surely recognize, even if you’ve never heard their names.