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Fake AP Style Book

2009-10-24 00:07:04.605917+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Twitter feed: FakeAPStylebook. Too many for a simple excerpt, but I'll try:

@FakeAPStylebook is it preferable to refer to the country as "Burma" or as "Myanmar"?

.@kpich If accuracy / Is what you crave / Then you should call it / Myanmar Shave

And

While it's tempting to call them "baristi," because of the Italian roots, plural of "barista" is "journalism majors.

Via MeFi.

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