Macmillan Holdings, LLC. Grammar Girl, Grammar Girl's, QDnow, and Quick and Dirty Tips are all trademarks of Macmillan Holdings, LLC. Updates from the 2009 AP Stylebook. Cochandl grammar I think Dawn Armfield is a bit confused on the role AP Style serves and the ability of Twitter users to "allow" it. The AP is giving news writers guidelines to follow to ensure consistency in news stories. And while AP is more widely used than that, it doesn't "define" who Twitter users are or what they're doing. Although, judging by the standards applied by most social media users, I can imagine that they don't understand the need for consistency on insignificant little issues like spelling and grammar. http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/tweet-or-twitter-verb.aspx?commentid=17909#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/tweet-or-twitter-verb.aspx?commentid=17909#Comments Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:01:48 GMT Jones grammar Personally, I think a word should be spelled like the one it is derived from. Now, if we start writing Julius Cesar instead of Julius Caesar, we should also write cesarian section. But as long as we don't, we should stick to cesarian. Just my two cents. http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/tweet-or-twitter-verb.aspx?commentid=17714#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/tweet-or-twitter-verb.aspx?commentid=17714#Comments Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:01:53 GMT Ann Jennings grammar Hmmm . . . I'm consider myself a logical person and understand going with the perverbial (and verbal) flow. However, the whole "cesarean" respelling is bothering me. Will history texts now refer to the assasinated Roman as Cesar? If we change spellings because of medical texts will we be changing history texts as well? Also, I wonder with the rapidly changing elements of social networking, will it even matter if we Twitter or tweet in a year? http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/tweet-or-twitter-verb.aspx?commentid=17679#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/tweet-or-twitter-verb.aspx?commentid=17679#Comments Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:41:24 GMT Dan L. grammar Following up on Sarah B's un-favorite: I think I would write it as "X out of that window." (I can't imagine a valid reason for ever having do so, however, aside from quoting what someone else said.) http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/tweet-or-twitter-verb.aspx?commentid=17583#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/tweet-or-twitter-verb.aspx?commentid=17583#Comments Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:20:30 GMT Sarah B grammar Technology seems to have catalyzed the practice of using other parts of speech as verbs: I forwarded that to him already; Google that blog; (and my personal un-favorite) ex out of that window. Language evolution is fascinating...if sometimes as uncomfortable as shredding your knuckles on a cheese grater. http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/tweet-or-twitter-verb.aspx?commentid=17569#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/tweet-or-twitter-verb.aspx?commentid=17569#Comments Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:28:20 GMT Grammar Girl grammar "@TimothyArcher" also had an intersting response: "@GrammarGirl @faughnfamily Even 'older school' would be the verbs 'wire' for telegraph and 'type' for using a typewriter." http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/tweet-or-twitter-verb.aspx?commentid=17544#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/tweet-or-twitter-verb.aspx?commentid=17544#Comments Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:39:28 GMT Grammar Girl grammar "@faughnfamily" made an interesting comment about this episode over at Twitter: "@GrammarGirl an 'old-school' parallel for 'text' as a verb would be 'fax' in place of 'send a fascimile.' Great episode! http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/tweet-or-twitter-verb.aspx?commentid=17543#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/tweet-or-twitter-verb.aspx?commentid=17543#Comments Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:38:01 GMT Grammar Girl grammar You're right, Ryan. That should be a semicolon. That's what happens when I rush a show out. http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/tweet-or-twitter-verb.aspx?commentid=17535#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/tweet-or-twitter-verb.aspx?commentid=17535#Comments Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:39:32 GMT Jim grammar > ... the AP said, "We changed our style on the spelling of 'cesarean' to conform to the spelling now preferred by medical groups and government agencies." What a bunch of diphthongs. http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/tweet-or-twitter-verb.aspx?commentid=17534#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/tweet-or-twitter-verb.aspx?commentid=17534#Comments Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:29:57 GMT Ryan grammar "As an aside, I'm a very heavy Twitter user, you can follow me at twitter.com/grammargirl." I'm a little confused about why you used the second comma. In years past, folks used a semicolon to separate two closely-related but distinct thoughts such as those. Then the comma-and-"and" route became more heavily traveled. Lately, it seems that everyone thinks "and" is overkill. I can't find any justification for it. Why is it so prevalent? And what would it hurt if your sentence read, "As an aside, I'm a very heavy Twitter user; you can follow me at twitter.com/grammargirl." http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/tweet-or-twitter-verb.aspx?commentid=17533#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/tweet-or-twitter-verb.aspx?commentid=17533#Comments Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:20:30 GMT Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:01:48 GMT http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/tweet-or-twitter-verb.aspx feedback@quickanddirtytips.com (Managing Editor) feedback@quickanddirtytips.com (Webmaster) en-us