Jonathon Owen
Editor • Writer • Linguist • Ironic meta-pedant • Villain • Cat person
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@apstylebook.com
The AP Stylebook is widely used as a writing and editing reference in newsrooms, classrooms and corporate offices worldwide. We offer a full suite of products to help you stay in style, whether on your desktop, laptop, smartphone or tablet.
@purplepenning.bsky.social
Former copyeditor/writer for many fine folks and publications, current bookseller/social media editor for Hartfield Book Co., around the web as PurplePenning
@jeopardyofficial.bsky.social
📺 Jeopardy! - Weeknights - Check your listings 🍿 Pop Culture Jeopardy! - Stream on Prime Video 🦉 Jeopardy! Masters - Wednesdays at 9/8c on ABC
@apastyle.bsky.social
This official profile is maintained by experts at the American Psychological Association. We share tips about how to format a paper, create APA Style references in seventh edition (#APA7), write with concise and bias-free language, and more. apastyle.org
@logophilius.bsky.social
Editor (Saturday Evening Post), musician (Indiana Wind Symphony), writer (The Body Politic), list-maker (look around), parentheses enthusiast (obviously), Oxford comma user (see next), and lapsed peevologist (though I still hate "impactful").
@chicagomanual.bsky.social
The venerable, time-tested guide to style, usage, and grammar. An indispensable reference, informing the editorial canon with sound, definitive advice at cmos.style/ONLINE. We answer your “Chicago Style” questions at cmos.style/QandA.
@levostregc.bsky.social
Geoffrey Chaucer (Le Vostre GC): Servaunt of the Kynge. Blogger. Wryter of verse. Wearer of litel woolen hatte. Deputy Forestere of North Petherton. He/hym/hys.
@modernlanguage.bsky.social
News and announcements from the Modern Language Association. If you have a question for MLA staff members, please visit http://mla.org/About-Us/Contact
@stefanfatsis.bsky.social
Father: No. 14 Scrabble player in North America Author: Word Freak, A Few Seconds of Panic, Wild & Outside Ex: Slate's Hang Up and Listen, WSJ, NPR, AP, Daily Pennsylvanian, Pel Mel Coming in 2025: UNABRIDGED from Grove Atlantic
@the-ciep.bsky.social
The CIEP is an international membership organisation that offers training and a community for editorial professionals. https://www.ciep.uk/directory.html
@preetbharara.bsky.social
Patriotic American. Former US Attorney, SDNY. Banned by Putin. Fired by Trump.
@steinbeigle.bsky.social
Nevertheless she persisted in posting literary hot takes, knitting, and cats
@jonathanhoefler.bsky.social
Man of letters. 🔤 Hoefler&Co Founder & Director Emeritus 🎬 Netflix “Abstract,” S02 E06 jonathanhoefler.com
@lingsocam.bsky.social
The Linguistic Society of America supports the scientific study of language and shares interesting linguistic stories. Join the LSA today!
@americandialect.org
The American Dialect Society is dedicated to the study of language in North America. Linguists, lexicographers, educators, students, enthusiasts, and more. https://americandialect.org/
@e-briannica.bsky.social
technical editor, historical linguist, 2D cartoon person http://www.encyclopediabriannica.com/ https://bit.ly/briannica
@mashedradish.bsky.social
I get to the bottom of words on the top of our minds. Mashedradish.com is etymology at the intersection of news, life, and everyday language. Previously headed up content at Dictionary.com.
@merriam-webster.com
noun | a reference source containing words alphabetically arranged along with information about their forms, pronunciations, functions, and etymologies
@efafreelancers.bsky.social
EFA freelancers include editors, writers, indexers, proofreaders, researchers, desktop publishers, translators. Free job listing service. Courses & webinars for members & guests. https://linktr.ee/efa_editors
@babelzine.bsky.social
📚 The quarterly linguistics magazine for all language lovers 📖 Available in print and digital 🖥️ 🔗 babelzine.co.uk
@byagoda.bsky.social
Author "Gobsmacked!”; “About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made"; "Will Rogers: A Biography"; "How To Not Write Bad" etc.
@kconnormartin.bsky.social
Former lexicographer and Brooklynite. Current product director and UK-based USian.
@mgrammar.bsky.social
Gabe Doyle, Associate Professor of Linguistics at SDSU. Erstwhile blogger: https://motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com I'm a computational psycholinguist, so I have lots of thoughts on AI & LLMs. Catch those at: https://hallucinatingparrots.wordpress.com
@kokedit.bsky.social
“Let the warning ride forth once more: Tyranny is at our door.” Medical editor 🧪✍️ helping nonfluent English writers in 20+ nations get published in 60+ medical journals. Member of ACES, AMWA, BELS, CSE, EFA. She/her. https://www.kokedit.com/
@eviljoemcveigh.bsky.social
I'm a linguist & sr lecturer at Metropolia Uni. I'm writing my PhD in marketing and linguistics at the University of Helsinki. I like #language & #linguistics, hockey, baseball and comic books - but maybe not in that order :) https://eviljoemcveigh.com
@janfreeman.bsky.social
Mostly retired editor/writer/Boston Globe language columnist; author of centenary edition of Ambrose Bierce's "Write It Right" (Walker, 2009), whose subtitle is too long for this space. Not the Massachusetts poet who shares my name.
@danziger.bsky.social
OED researcher. Professor, film and American Studies. Writer. I expect to die without seeing the Jets win the Super Bowl.
@shadycharacters.co.uk
Keith Houston's blog about unusual marks of punctuation. Author of SHADY CHARACTERS, THE BOOK, and now EMPIRE OF THE SUM: THE RISE AND REIGN OF THE POCKET CALCULATOR (https://shadycharacters.co.uk/books/).
@tjordans.bsky.social
Assistant professor of English (concentration in Writing, Editing, and Publishing) at the University of Northern Colorado.
@mikepope.com
Tech writing & editing (update: now retired), language & words, occasional cats. Friday words when the mood strikes me (and when it's Friday): https://mikepopewords.com/
@acesediting.bsky.social
We are the nation’s leading organization of editing professionals, educators, and students. Follow us for #editing news, events, & training. https://linktr.ee/aceseditors
@stronglang.bsky.social
Sweary stuff about swearing from a group of linguists, lexicographers, and language lovers. https://stronglang.wordpress.com Skeets by @sesquiotic.bsky.social
@jennifermcdaniel.bsky.social
Former @BYU_FacultyEdit on the bird app. ADHD. Tired. Elder millennial. Both Gerald and Piggie, somehow. Hoping to be brave enough to join the conversation. she/her
@haggardhawks.bsky.social
The bird with the words. // Obscure words, etymology & language facts // New book A WINTER DICTIONARY, a collection of obscure words for the festive season, is OUT NOW! // New look website haggardhawks.com launching soon...
@waywordradio.org
Public radio's lively language show! On-air in US, free podcast worldwide. https://waywordradio.org words@waywordradio.org. Toll-free US/Canada 24/7 1-877-929-9673 or https://wa.me/16198004443 #linguistics #etymology #podcast #books #language
@focusfronting.bsky.social
opinions are not my own and represent those of noam chomsky if he were in law school. she/her.
@thegrammargeek.bsky.social
Copy editor, proofreader, deputy editorial manager at Dragonfly Editorial. Oxford comma agnostic. What you learned in ninth-grade English might be wrong. He/him.