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Does SEO spell ‘doom’?

The crimes against language committed in the name of SEO continue unabated. At this rate, the English language will be extinct inside a year.
A deeper circle of hell is even now being fired for so-called editors who commit SEO crimes. Thus does a certain editing site – winner of (and, one suspects, sole contestant for) [...]

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Recent projects

Over the last six months I have done freelance work for academics at institutions below. Please contact me to discuss your work, speculative equiries very welcome:
International Christian University, Tokyo
Sophia University, Tokyo
Institute of Education, University of London, UK
School of Oriental and African Studies, UK (publication: Making Sense of the Global)
University of Edinburgh, UK
University of Kent, UK
University [...]

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Revealing ellipses

The Chicago ‘rigorous’ method for handling ellipses in quotations (XV 11.57) is the only one that should be acceptable in scholarship.
Chicago’s ‘three-or-four-dot method’ permits an incomplete sentence to be presented as a complete one. Thus, as an example, Chicago says that this passage:
[A] The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless: it [...]

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Preloved Babies

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Alt-X hexadecimal character entry

To enter Unicode characters by their hexadecimal value (without having to trawl through Word’s fair-weather-friend symbol-entry interface): Enter the hexadecimal value for the Unicode symbol, position cursor at the end of the string, and press alt-X. This toggles between the character and the unicode value.

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