The Deciders
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011The University of Chicago Press has published the 16th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style. The Subversive Copy Editor, who headed up the team for CMOS 16, highlights the changes. In headlines the second term in a hyphenated word is now capped, as in Twenty-First Century. A generic term is now also capped when its proper form applies to more than one modifier: Illinois and Chicago Rivers. Brand names that begin with a lowercase letter followed by a capitalized letter may now start a sentence (e.g., iPad). For this wisdom, you can pay $65. Or not. I will not be asking my editors to buy the new edition. How’s that for subversive?
