Semicolons:
1. The length of the text near it has nothing to do with whether a semicolon should appear.
2. Unless it's a proper noun, the word following a semicolon should not be capitalized.
Corporate personhood: So, is this phrasing now correct? IBM, who began operations . . .
Flat Earth society: Please don't write, "across the globe."
Both: I once received a manuscript from a university press in which the managing editor had skillfully stripped every unnecessary instance of "both," which was most of them. I find that I can usually do the same.
Words that drive me crazy: bespoke, quotidian, salience.
Citations: You can't have Spring 2012 and n.d. in the same listing.
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