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Monthly Archives: October 2007

Word List from Copyeditor’s Stylesheet for The Writing Class (coming in June 2008)

(this being what copy editors, without whom writers would look pretty silly, have to worry about)
a while (2 wds as obj of prep)
a.k.a.
anymore (1 wd as adv)
awhile (as adv)
axe-wielding
backseat
backstory
basset hound
bioterrorist
bling
blond, fem., n. & adj.
blond, masc. or neut., n. & adj.
brand-new
buttload
buzz cut, n.
buzz-cut, adj.
cell phone
cheat sheet
computer-savvy
coulrophobic
crappitude
curricula vitarum
d.o.b., d.o.d.
diacritics
diphthongs
doofus
eftsoons
e-mail
encomium
exactamento
FedEx
Frisbee
gigue
glance-through, n.
Googling
half hour
half-filled
high school (adj.)
huzzahs
Hylocereus undatus
Internet
JPEG
kibbitzers
leukemia
likable
looky-loo
lying doggo
mal de mer
mixups
mnemonic
namby-pamby
night-blooming [...]

Name That List (and no fair Googling)

The spur of cheese.
The mustard-pot of penance.
The cobbled shoe of humility.
The furred cat of the Solicitors and Attorneys.
The Teeth-chatter or Gum-didder of Lubberly Lusks.
The Ape’s Paternoster.
The Fat Belly of the Presidents.
The Merciless Cormorant, by Hoxinidno the Jew.