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This week and next I’m gadding about and not thinking about my blog. I will of course be thinking about copyediting—in between crab cakes—while I attend Ruth Thaler-Carter’s excellent Communication Central conference in Baltimore with a crowd of like-minded writers and editors.
After that, I’ll be off to Daytona International Speedway, where I have a “4-Day Super Infield” ticket to camp at the track and watch my brother Tom race his vintage motorcycle.
In the meantime, don’t go away empty-handed! Here’s a vintage offering of my own: “Still Learning: Fun Language Words.”

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.]

(Ahem.) That will be me at Dellani’s Tea Time at Blog Talk Radio. I’ll be talking about my new children’s novel Eddie’s War in conversation with host Dellani Oakes and writer Daniel Ferry. Please join us! 4 PM Eastern Time.…