(we will still be ignoring vanity styling)

lowercase song titles are over, we’ve entered the ALL CAPS ERA

hey (with the intention of getting you to rewrite a sentence in your article)

This Disability Pride Month, we wanted to share part of our guidance on writing about disability and avoiding ableist language 📝

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if i text you “🔍📖” it means “look it up in the dictionary”

writer: i ran a spellcheck, so it's probably good to go
copy editor:

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We’ve long had this listed as an exception to the rule of adding apostrophe+s to form a possessive noun, but we’re tired of feeling silly while saying names out loud to see if they make a “z” sound, so we’re deleting it 🐍✂️

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they're a 10 but they use two hyphens instead of an em dash

we need an american girl doll who’s a descriptivist

[regina george voice] stop trying to make “fexting” happen

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Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈 FYI: We capitalize "Pride" in reference to Pride Month and as shorthand for a proper name or event after the first full reference. Examples: BuzzFeed has a float in the LA Pride Parade. We went to Pride on Sunday. How many Pride parties have you RSVP'd to?

important style decision: ass play or assplay?

We use gender-neutral language to be accurate and inclusive of the population affected by access to abortion. We understand that abortion is historically and politically a women’s rights issue, but we’re going to write “pregnant people” when we’re talking about pregnant people.

“Emergency contraception” is a more accurate term for contraception used after unprotected sex than the “morning-after pill,” a misnomer because you don’t have to wait until the next morning and you can take it for up to five days after sex.

“Late-term abortion” is also not based in medicine, and it can imply that a person is having an abortion when they are close to or at full-term. Abortions after 21 weeks of gestation are rare and can be called “abortions later in pregnancy.”

The term “heartbeat bill” is misleading. What’s being measured around six weeks is more accurately described as electrical activity, as fetal heart valves are not yet formed. We don’t use this term outside of quotes.

We use the scientific terms to discuss pregnancy in general: "embryo" for the first seven weeks of human development and “fetus” starting in the eighth week of pregnancy.

We aim to write about what has long been a highly politicized issue with the most straightforward language. That’s why we say “abortion rights” advocate rather than “pro-choice,” and conversely, “anti-abortion” instead of “pro-life.”

"Don't Worry Darling"? But I am worried! About where the vocative comma went!

A new @APStylebook entry suggests limiting the use of “community” in reference to groups of people, since it “implies homogeneity and the idea that all members of a particular ‘community’ think and act alike.” (They don't.)

Tomorrow in our newsletter, we're covering how language is paramount when it comes to writing about climate change.

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Yeah I love the “Grammys” — all the grammy lessons in my damn style guide