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ADKbrown	Post subject: A change underway? Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2003 7:52 am
Joined: Tue Apr 09, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 1286 Location: Saranac Lake, N.Y.	From NYT: Mr. Bush said: "We are now fighting the most desperate units of the dictator's army. The fierce fighting underway will demand further courage and further sacrifice, yet we know the outcome of this battle."<p>*Is "under way" one word now? Or is this just a peculiarity of Times style? *
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SusanV	Post subject: Re: A change underway? Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2003 11:10 am
Joined: Thu Apr 18, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 1399 Location: In the newsroom	<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by ADKbrown: From NYT: Mr. Bush said: "We are now fighting the most desperate units of the dictator's army. The fierce fighting underway will demand further courage and further sacrifice, yet we know the outcome of this battle."<p>*Is "under way" one word now? Or is this just a peculiarity of Times style? *<hr></blockquote> For pubs that use NW as their dictionary of choice, which the Times does, it's been one word since at least the third edition (we're up to the fourth now). Ugly, IMO.<p>I also notice, though, that the Times and other pubs don't seem to pay a whole lot of attention to what's in NW 4. One of its more notable changes--which we absolutely detest but have not been able to persuade the boss to overrule--is turning cellphone into one word as well.
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Phillip Blanchard	Post subject: Re: A change underway? Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2003 4:08 pm
Joined: Sun Apr 07, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 8342 Location: Bethesda, Md.	<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by SusanV: One of its more notable changes--which we absolutely detest but have not been able to persuade the boss to overrule--is turning cellphone into one word as well.<hr></blockquote><p>In a bold move, the Post stylebook says:<p>cell phone<p>Not cellphone. *Exception to Webster's New World College Dictionary, Fourth Edition.
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SusanV	Post subject: Re: A change underway? Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2003 5:46 pm
Joined: Thu Apr 18, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 1399 Location: In the newsroom	<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by blanp: <p>In a bold move, the Post stylebook says:<p>[b]cell phone<p>Not cellphone. *Exception to Webster's New World College Dictionary, Fourth Edition.[/b]<hr></blockquote>Good on you! I'm jealous.
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