One of my authors was kind enough to explain this to me.
The [French] accent circonflex is indicative of a hidden “s” which applies with Davoût =Davoust or the archhaic d’Avoust as some would have it.
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1950 origin convinces me that this is a bogus marketing word. I would argue that the only example where the use of “cremains” is more appropriate than the use of “remains” is the final example. In all other cases, “remains” is simpler and more dignified.
General guidance for editing Nimble Books manuscripts Please use the 15th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style. I highly recommend a $30 subscription to the online version. Mechanical issues
For my style philosophies and idiosyncrasies see the Nimble Books Style Guide and my regular #usage posts on Twitter. The following sections provide tips on issues to watch for with particular types of manuscripts. Edited collections
Military, political, and naval books
I’m going with no: “health care,” please. #usage MM for millions is 1) usu. unnecessary 2) non-standard 3) illogical (why not MN?) In the process of editing the ten volume history of torpedo boats by Joe Hinds, I realized that I made life difficult for myself by introducing a variety of inconsistencies. The solutions: No hyphens in ship numbers: the US Navy’s official standard is no hyphen, e.g. CV 77, PT 109. So, henceforth: MAS 451, S 12, TKA 123, PQ 17. No italics in ship numbers: PT 109, not PT 109. Italicizing ship numbers may be Chicago style, but it is a pain to select and highlight those little words, so henceforth, no italics. LFF is an ancient publishing acronym that stands for “Let the Fucker Fly!” That is to say, an acknowledged flaw or typo must be allowed to publication because the cost of change, usually at a late date, is too high. In project management and product management there is a concept called “change control“, which essentially says that after specific milestones no further changes to a set of requirements or to code will be accepted without a thorough review of the cost and schedule implications of the change. This is a good concept for authors to remember as they volunteer “one more” change or “one last change.”
My super-literate author J P Cross (THE CALL OF NEPAL) dropped “shramming” into his manuscript — which was a new word to me!
Scientific notation “for the win” (teenage acronym my daughter used on me today). After years of trying to remember how many 0s there are in a teragram (12) or a petagram (15), I am imposing a Nimble Books Style Guide rule: in all Nimble Books, we use scientific notation for any number larger than a trillion, i.e. we write 818 Pg as 818 x 1015. |
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