Lapsing Into a Comma T A B L E   O F   C O N T E N T S

CHAPTER 1
Beyond Search and Replace
Using Your Head as Well as Your Stylebook

CHAPTER 2
You Could Look It Up!
How to Use a Dictionary With Style

CHAPTER 3
Holding The (Virtual) Fort
Disturbing Trends in the Information Age

	Arbitrary Capitalization: After playing Chess, let's have a Turkey Sandwich
	Call It UNINATI: The United Nations' initial assault on the language

CHAPTER 4
Literally Speaking
Write What You Mean, Mean What You Write

CHAPTER 5
Giving 110 Percent
Why You Needed Those Math Classes After All

CHAPTER 6
Matters of Sensitivity
Correctness, Political and Otherwise

Dirty Mind, Clean Copy: Why every copy desk could use a 13-year-old boy

CHAPTER 7
He Said, She Said
Quotations in the News

"It Is I," Said the Fullback: "Correcting" Quotes Is Incorrect

CHAPTER 8
The Big Type
Headlines and Captions

CHAPTER 9
Dash It All, Period
The Finer Points of Punctuation

CHAPTER 10
The Curmudgeon's Stylebook
Details, Details

	"The 5" Habits of Highly Hollywood People: Interstate highways carry an intrastate regionalism
	Infinitives: Split away!
	Sloppy Similes: Why does Paul McCartney want me to live on his piano?
	Moniker Lewinsky: Middle initials sometimes get in the way of common sense
	The "The": Put That Down! Know an article's rightful owner before you decide whether to capitalize
	I'm a Member of the Media, but I'm Not a Medium: "Media" isn't always plural, no matter what you've been taught
	Retronyms, or Sometimes a Muffin Is Just a Muffin: Technology's march adds clarifying adjectives to formerly clear terms
	Passive Aggression: The active voice is overrated

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