The Wednesday Word Wise Roundup

I’ve received e-mail from readers wondering why I haven’t posted a Wednesday Roundup in several weeks and I have no excuse but slothfulness, lethargy, and too much time taken up stressing out over the fight between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Now that the primary battle seems to be winding down – especially with you-know-who’s poor showing last night in North Carolina and Indiana – I’ll try to be more regular with these roundups.

· Princeton University Press is recalling all copies of a book from its spring catalog because  it had more than 90 spelling and grammar errors. As this story from the Chronicle of Higher Education notes, “The errors came to light when the author’s friends and family members began sending him lists of the numerous spelling and grammatical mistakes they had noticed.”

· The American Copy Editors Society named the winners of its 2007 headline contest, with the “Division 1” winner being “The Way of No Flesh,” which topped a review of a book in The New York Times called The Bloodless Revolution: A Cultural History of Vegetarianism. The headline is a play on words related to the novel The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler.

· Last month Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat profiled the “grammar vigilante,” whose goal is to “make the U.S. "’a safer place for spelling.’" The 28-year-old grammar vigilante himself has a blog in which he chronicles his adventures (if you can call traveling across the country trying to stamp out spelling mistakes and other abuses wherever and whenever he sees them “adventures”). It's more fun than you might expect.

Have you read an interesting, funny, or instructive article or blog post about writing, language or grammar you think I should post here? Let me know.