stet

[uncronopio]

Stet A proofreader’s mark, written in the margin, signifying that copy marked for corrections should remain as it was.

As I mentioned before, I have spent the last couple of days reviewing manuscripts for a journal. By some strange coincidence I came across Thomas Sowell's web site, which includes a nice essay entitled Some thoughts about writing, where the word stet is used. The section on editing is quite funny.

[tcward]

uncronopio, thanks for the link... I needed the laugh today.

-Tim

[Stargzer]

Ditto, Luis. I saved this one:

If there is anything that could survive a nuclear attack, it is probably typographical errors.

Tougher than cockroaches!