The August Q&A is up . . .

. . . at Chicago Manual of Style Online:

Q. “The telltale sign of a right-winger: they can’t write in English to save their lives.” Is “they/their” used incorrectly?

Q. Based on CMOS 10.4, Los Angeles should appear as LA, but this can create confusion between the city and the state of Louisiana. How then do you treat Los Angeles when you need to abbreviate it?

Q. If a person has two last names, but they are not hyphenated, like Harriet Beecher Stowe, how do you alphabetize them—by Beecher or Stowe?

More questions (and answers) at the Chicago Manual of Style Online. It's free!

Posted by Carol Fisher Saller on 08/02/2012 at 12:04 PM | Permalink

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