Spelling Bee (correct/incorrect, spell correctly if not)
Occurrence
What is correct?
What is "criteria"?
In English: offense
What is offence?
carte blanche
What is French?
The author of our book works for what publisher (so did our guest speaker Tamara Ghattas).
What is U of Chicago P?
priviledge
What is incorrect: privilege?
Cactus
What is cacti?
In English, sulfur.
What is sulphur?
Guerrilla
What is Spanish?
Saller argues that when you are a copyeditor, this person is your boss.
Who is the reader?
embarassment
What is incorrect? embarrassment
Beau
What is beaux?
In English, program.
Zeitgeist.
what is German?
Chapter 2, "The Good Launch" asserts that are six habits to cultivate now. Name two of them. Paraphrasing acceptable.
What are "Ask first, and ask nicely," "Don't Sneak (much)," "Eliminate surprises," "Keep it professional" and "Say Yes."
Accordion
What is correct?
Vertebra
What is vertebrae?
What is colour?
ad nauseum
What is Latin?
Saller writes "We mark corrections and queries as we go, using the tracking feature of our word processors" as an example of waht virtue?
What is transparency?
Sophmore
What is incorrect? sophomore?
What is bases?
In English, maneuver
What is maneouvre?
Cappuccino
What is Italian?
Identify one thing you learned from reading the first three chapters of The Subversive Copy Editor.
What is ______.