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• We Use Frankfurters in Our Hot Dogs!

  
  I have trouble even stomaching the smell of Subway outlets, but I have to hand it to the folks at the mega-chain: Corned-beef Reubens really are the best kind of Reubens. (If only somebody would break it to them about the grilled rye bread.)
  
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  Posted: July 04, 2008, 12:34pm EDT by Bill

The Engine Room

• Forget LiLo, Boris Johnson is BoJo

  I've just noticed that the Daily Mirror occasionally refers to London mayor Boris Johnson (pictured) as BoJo, in much the same way as some other publications refer to Lindsay Lohan as LiLo.
  
  BoJo - just brilliant. It reminds me of Bozo the [...]
  
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  Posted: July 04, 2008, 12:01pm EDT by JD

headsup: the blog

• Corrections that don't

  Consider this a candidate for Worst Correction of the Year. It does almost nothing a correction should and almost everything a correction shouldn't:
  
  An article in Thursday's Local News section about fireworks deaths should have said the Detroit Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives seized eight cases of [...]
  
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  Posted: July 04, 2008, 10:17am EDT by fev

Meranda Writes

• QOTD: Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing

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  “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
  ? Ben Franklin

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  Posted: July 04, 2008, 9:39am EDT by Meranda

Working With Words

• Don't Become a Statistic TodayBe ...

  Don't Become a Statistic Today
  
  Be careful around those fireworks today, folks. We wouldn't want you to be added to these numbers from the CDC. But do enjoy the Fourth, will you? [...]
  
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  Posted: July 04, 2008, 8:37am EDT by John Ettorre

The Grammarphobia Blog

• A purpose-driven question

  Q: A recent New York Times article said Al Gore "had purposefully stayed on the sidelines during the long Democratic primary fight." It seems to me that the Times should have said ?purposely,? which to me means on purpose, instead of ?purposefully,? which I see as with a purpose. Is [...]
  
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  Posted: July 04, 2008, 8:10am EDT by Pat

Wordblog

• ?Online is Trinity Mirror?s most valuable asset? ? Press Gazette

  Trinity Mirror’s newspapers are getting close to worthless but the web business is worth buying, Peter Kirwan argues in the Press Gazette’s Media Money blog. From the company numbers he arrives at a figure for digital revenue and then makes a five year forecast on the basis of current [...]

  
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  Posted: July 04, 2008, 5:46am EDT by Andrew Grant-Adamson

• Wanted snapper, video and audio person who can write

  The description of the person needed for an internship at the St Louis Post-Dispatch looks like “the job description for a 21st century journalist”, says Alfred Herminda who uncovered it.

  Audio, video and stills are all part of the job as well as the “ability to write cleanly and [...]

  
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  Posted: July 04, 2008, 5:27am EDT by Andrew Grant-Adamson

Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing

• Phrasal Verbs

  Learn why “listen up” is different from “listen.”

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  Posted: July 04, 2008, 1:55am EDT

Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing

• 114 GG Listen Up

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  Posted: July 04, 2008, 12:48am EDT

Gangrey.com

• Fireworks

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Al's Morning Meeting

• Feds Discuss Possibility of Euthanizing Wild Horses

  There are about 33,000 wild horses living on federal ranges in 10 Western states. The Feds have said 27,000 horses is the "appropriate management level" and are considering euthanizing the animals to deal with the surplus. Rising hay and grain costs may be contributing to declining horse adoptions. [...]
  
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  Posted: July 04, 2008, 12:01am EDT

Words at Work

• A Little Entertainment

  For copy editors who like challenging games, try Sporcle. [...]
  
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  Posted: July 03, 2008, 8:26pm EDT by Pam

Working With Words

• A PredictionWe ...

  A Prediction
  
  We predict massive shortages of watermelon all around the world, with unprecedented levels of hoarding, and even scattered reports of hospitalizations, due to overeating. Why, you ask? You read it here. [...]
  
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  Posted: July 03, 2008, 8:23pm EDT by John Ettorre

Words at Work

• Worth Noting

  David Sullivan notes a smart piece by Tim McGuire, which I'd overlooked. Both those guys should be read as often as possible.
  
  And here's something else, since David elsewhere on his blog notes the paper-is-too-liberal refrain that we often see. I wonder how blog complaints about the paper [...]
  
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  Posted: July 03, 2008, 4:20pm EDT by Pam

Common Sense Journalism

• Beyond upheaval

  Number of comments: 3
  It's really impossible to understate how much fear, loathing, upheaval and [name your basest emotion here] there is in the newspaper business this week.
  
  Last week came the waves of layoffs. Then came the OC Register's outsourcing announcement. And the latest to touch it off was Tampa [...]
  
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  Posted: July 03, 2008, 4:08pm EDT by Doug Fisher

Words at Work

• A View From Australia

  I have to say that the idea that we'll write something and then stand back and wait for readers to correct us has always struck me as strange and a bit arrogant. There are indeed people who have nothing else to do than read blogs and comment on them but [...]
  
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  Posted: July 03, 2008, 3:14pm EDT by Pam