What's a noun that means a correction/amendment/addition made to a text after the text has been &quot;finalised&quot;  JK Rowling's many ______s posted on twitter
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A clarification of a European building code has been issued, therefore a separate correction for the book is released. What would this correction be called?  I have had the words amendment and addendum suggested from different sources.
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When reading some work of a friend, I noticed the sentence "When in doubt ask me". Instead of simply pointing out that it could use a comma after doubt, I read the sentence aloud with no gaps or punctuation, as it is written.  When I was corrected that there should be a pause, I smiled and remarked that there was no punctuation to indicate this and my friend realised their own mistake.  When asked why I didn't just say that, I remarked that I was just being __ for the sake of amusement.  I used "spurious", but having re-read its definition, that is not the correct word to describe the way I acted, because it means: Not being what it purports to be; false or fake: "spurious claims".  I don't think "sarcastic" covers what I did either and I'm at a loss for the word to use.
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I was reading this today:  We look forward to following your progress.  Am I correct in thinking that it is missing a be or that -ing should be removed?  So  We look forward to be following your progress.  or  We look forward to follow your progress.  Interestingly I get the same jarring feeling when reading the examples here
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What is the correct word to describe the people who have not finished their work after the deadline?   For the antonym, there is finisher, but I can't find *unfinisher in the dictionary.
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Are these merely stylistic conventions (whether italicized or non-italicized), or are there substantive differences in the meanings of these notations?  Are there other notations meaning "the probability of" that should be considered in this question?
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I edit people's posts occasionally on ServerFault when the grammar/punctuation/coherence goes below a threshold that my OCD can handle. However, on some of the thornier posts I would like to be able to compare my edits to the original text, especially when doing a final proof-reading of my edits.  At the moment, my only options are to either copy the original text into a text editor or copy a duplicate of the text into the editing field. From there I can compare my edits to the original text and make sure I'm preserving the original meaning as I attempt to untangle less than optimal communication.  This request is somewhat similar to this Meta post: ""
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I would like to write "In "[article name]," [author] states such and such." However, in this particular instance, [article name] ends in a question mark. How should I punctuate this?   "In "Can Pigs Fly," Bacon states..." "In "Can Pigs Fly?" Bacon states..." "In "Can Pigs Fly?," Bacon states..."   Or something else?  Thank you!
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What I mean is to change mistakes/typos other than the proposed changes your reviewers pointed out to you.  As this article is based on a previous thesis (which had a very similar focus, only it was oriented towards a different cultural context) I've noticed a few paragraphs that could use a clean up (for example it would help to clarify that I use a certain term because it is related to the administrative divisions in my country,etc.).  I also noticed a typo on one of the results on the table that got carried over to the abstract. It doesn't change the results or findings or anything, basically it's just a decimal that should be lower.  My question is, would it be OK to change them now? And in case it was should I let the reviewers know I cleaned it up or go through each change, besides the ones they asked me to do, obviously.
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English, having originated as a germanic language, uses premodifier noun adjuncts (is this the right terminology?) to form compound nouns like "science fiction writer". However, English also says "table of contents", where "of contents" is a prepositional phrase I would think. Now, I write texts or translate and get corrected by reviewers and proof-readers, who are English and serious people, while I am not. For example, recently I wrote "density of water" and was corrected to "water density". It gets worse, I feel, when there are several premodifiers e.g. I wrote "plant of the Cimenterie Nationale d'Haïti" and was corrected to "Cimenterie Nationale d'Haïti plant".  What is the rule? Is there a recommended limit to the number of premodifiers? Perhaps not more than two? Science fiction writer sounds OK. What is the correct terminology talking about this issue?  With many thanks!
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Example: A character owns a pair of Sophia Loren sunglasses. Before going out for the afternoon, "She drew on her Sophia Loren’s, flipped her long mane back, and tossed him a cheeky grin."  If I'm not mistaken, this is an example of a "proprietary eponym". Is the apostrophe correct here, or should it be "Sophia Lorens"—i.e. since the thing referred to is a plurale tantum, should the proprietary eponym also take the form of a plurale tantum?
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Why does "edited" have one "t" and  and "emitted" has two? "Edit" and "emit" are so similar in spelling and pronunciation.  I keep wanting to type "editted" for some reason.
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I edit a lot of posts every day. I often run across posts with 'Hi' and 'Thanks' on the top and the bottom of the post respectively. I also run across things like:     --User   Should these items be removed during the editing of the post by an editor?
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I am trying to find the right words for the sentences.     (1) The book ____ "Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching".      (2) Charles Dickens writes/wrote in his book: "Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching".   Questions:  (1) The quote is just an example; I want to know how to refer to exact words written in the book, and I need to explicitly quote them as above.  Obviously, "says" fits here. But I am looking for a word whose meaning is closer to "write".  (2) I am curious whether to use the present or the past tense. Does it matter whether the author is still alive?
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I've come across a fellow that is apparently trawling SO looking for the common "calender" misspelling and correcting instances to "calendar."  He often does only that... leaving things like "Thanks" and "Regards, JoeBob" in the questions.  Should edits such as his be rejected as too minor in review?  See also a proposed spelling edit on a  that was closed as NARQ hours ago.
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I'm looking at , which was closed as off-topic a few days ago. Just a few minutes ago, the OP radically revised it; it doesn't even resemble the original question anymore. In fact, the two versions only share about seven words and some punctuation. Here's a screenshot of the most recent revision:    So, the question for the community is this: Is this proper, or should it be rolled back?  Edit: I went ahead and rolled it back because it has a couple of answers already (responding to the old version). But I would still like to know the community consensus on this.
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"whitened", "blackened", and "reddened"; but "yellowed", "grayed", and "blued".  Is there some rule or is it just one of those things?  "Greened" makes sense; no one is going to say "greenened".  "Pinked" or "pinkened"?  "Purpled" or "empurpled"?  First person to not make an Arrested Development joke gets a +1 from me.
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The vast majority of the time when I see the word "myriad" it is in a sentence like "He had a myriad of things."  However I don't like the extraneous words so I normally use it like "He had myriad things." My boss corrected the latter usage while editing something I wrote.  I averted an argument by simply changing the sentence to "He had various things." but was I incorrect?