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sweettea | 3 months ago

Already addressed: "While the family spells its last name with a B, the New York Times stylebook spells Hapsburg with a P, which brought no shortage of scolding emails upon publication."

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snthpy|3 months ago

How can the New Iork Tymes just choose how they spell things? That's messed up.

renewiltord|3 months ago

These idiosyncrasies are amusing but they do have a habit of dominating the conversation. E.g. the New Yorker (I think) uses diaeresis to represent distinct syllables resulting in words like “Cooperate” being decorated.

Or that chap here who insists on using 5 digit years.

But some go missed. My personal favourite is that I prefer to fully close clauses within quotations.

> The President said, “I will never bomb the moon!”.

monerozcash|3 months ago

The same way they just choose to anglicize Владимир Путин and בִּנְיָמִין נְתַנְיָהוּ, although there are certainly a plenty of much better examples.

steve1977|3 months ago

Addressed, but not fixed.

monerozcash|3 months ago

It's not at all unusual for English-language press to anglicize names.