{"id":1823,"date":"2019-11-17T19:10:52","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T01:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookofdreams.us\/?page_id=1823"},"modified":"2019-12-01T21:57:37","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T03:57:37","slug":"tcmos-spelling-words-and-compounds-chapter-7","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bookofdreams.us\/writing\/my-blogs-on-chicago-manual-of-style\/tcmos-spelling-words-and-compounds-chapter-7\/","title":{"rendered":"TCMOS – Spelling, Words, and Compounds – Chapter 7"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Sunday, November 17th, 2019 Spellings<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lesson #1 – Choose Consistency over Accurancy<\/p>\n\n\n\n English is a language with multiple spellings for the same words \u2014 archaeology vs archeology; color vs colour; (and may I add toward vs. towards; a hospital vs an hospital). Whether writing for the UK or US audiences, do not mix the rules within the same book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Plurals<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lesson #2 – Avoid situations that make rules complicated<\/p>\n\n\n\n General Rules:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Possessives<\/p>\n\n\n\n My protagonist’s name ends in s<\/em>. Jason Barnes, my hero. Jason’s possessive comma works without a doubt, but when I talk about the Barneses’s debt, I follow plural rules written in The Chicago Manual of Style’s<\/em> (TCMOS) section 7.17 and 7.18 for proper nouns ending in s<\/em> and italics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Use ‘s to show possession of singular words and plural as follows: cat’s meow. cats’ meows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Exception to the rule:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Lesson #3 – It matters how it sounds instead of how it is written<\/p>\n\n\n\n An honest doctor at a hospital is a result of how different honest and hospital sound. Accents matter too. British accent that doesn’t sound out the “h” will use an hotel instead of a hotel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I want to publish a MS soon on an MS topic. First MS is manuscript starting with M <\/em>sound, but the second is abbreviation for multiple Sclerosis, sounding as em es.<\/em>, hence “an” is used there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n How we break a sentence at the end of a sentence is also determined by the sound of the word after breaking. Examples:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Other Rules of Divisions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Use of Italics<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lesson #4 – Use Italics sparsely<\/p>\n\n\n\n Use italics for emphasis (\u201cHe was<\/em> the murderer!\u201d is correct) but highlighting an entire sentence for emphasis loses the impact of emphasis. In normal roman font, place the important clause at the end of the sentence (that will work better than italics for emphasis).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Other ways to emphasize is by capitalizing the first letter like a heading. Ex: “I am a Bad Mother!” Other Syntax Rules:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Hyphenation Rules<\/p>\n\n\n\n General Rules:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Lesson #5: TCMOS goes into greater detail and has a table for hyphenation. Its a great resource to have for editing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n My Takeaways<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Sometimes, it is possible to be right in over one way. It\u2019s better to remain consistent. While Chapter 7 felt easy and following common sense, the devil is in the details, and don\u2019t overlook this chapter as trivial. Rules are countless. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \n\nSource: The Chicago Manual of Style<\/em>, SEVENTEEN EDITION.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sunday, November 17th, 2019Blog #2 of my learning from #TheChicagoManualOfStyle. Spellings Lesson #1 – Choose Consistency over Accurancy English is a language with multiple spellings for the same words \u2014 archaeology vs archeology; color vs colour; (and may I add toward vs. towards; a hospital vs an hospital). Whether writing for the UK or US […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1809,"parent":1807,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P6kaFb-tp","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookofdreams.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1823"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookofdreams.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookofdreams.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookofdreams.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookofdreams.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1823"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bookofdreams.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1833,"href":"https:\/\/bookofdreams.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1823\/revisions\/1833"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookofdreams.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookofdreams.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookofdreams.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Blog #2 of my learning from #TheChicagoManualOfStyle.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Same rule is applied for mottoes and signs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n