Help was forthcoming, however. Incomprehensibly, the publisher has undercut its own sales by publishing a cheat sheet listing major changes, which include the ones Marcia mentioned. To avoid a burdensome search & compare mission, see http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/about16_rules.html.

I’m betting that most MEs have quietly decided to stick with the CMS 15 conventions, perhaps supplemented by the “About 16″ rules. There’s a limit to the amount of time a publisher can oblige its freelancers to waste in the service of the bottom line of the University of Chicago Press.

CMOS is nice. There was something about the new one–it was a link on aldaily.com

it must have been this:

http://www.bookforum.com/inprint/017_04/6675

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for many of us, we got into CMOS through Turabian, which was the sort of “gateway book.”

but enough about CMOS–it’s just so nice to see that you blog is continuing!

H.L. Mencken hypothesized that the subjunctive was a rare flower of English (or at least of “American”), esp. from ca. 1850 to 1920, and that it was fast fading toward oblivion even as we writing in the 20s and 30s and 40s.

Note that he was a keen descriptivist, without much of an authoritarian streak.

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