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 [...]

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 [...]

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: [...]

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.