Style sheet teaser

Courtesy of my excellent copyeditor, and with assistance from the Chicago Manual of Style and Webster, The Magic Circle in a nutshell...

Words and spelling if alternatives exist or CMS or Webster differs from text:

Absolut

Asian American

backstory

Benthamite

Berber

boiler room (Webster)

brick red

Brobdingnagian

bûche de noel

catty-corner (variation)

cover-up

crèche

crisscrossing

Dickens, Charles

dog-eared

dreidl (alternative spelling)

earbud

e-mail

exposé

Foucauldian

frisson

game master (CMS)

hauntology

inhering; inhere

Internet

larping

late-afternoon

Livejournal

living room

low carb

ludic

madhouse

maquillage

MFA (per Webster)

mica

multisided

namaste

nitpicky

outwards (secondary)

PhD

photoshopped

pocketknife

postdoctoral (per CMS 7.85)

present-day (adj.)

prorated

reemerged

Renaissance Fayre

ringleading

ringleted

Sanning eller konsekvens

sauteed (alternative spelling)

schist

scuff mark

self-contained

self-possessed

self-sustaining

setup

shape-shifters

spin the bottle

stained glass

stalkery

sugar-free

super glad

temper-stricken

Thebes

through line

towards (secondary)

trebuchet

tricorder

Twister

villanelle

vinyasa

V-neck

Yggdrasil

Aerial running

Ptarmigans on ptreadmills (via Marginal Revolution).

Two by Perec

The first image is from Portrait(s) de Georges Perec; the second is from Ian Monk's translation of "The Exeter Text" in Three by Perec.

Oed to a Nietingael

Margalit Fox's obituary for spelling reformer Edward Rondthaler (via Paul Collins). Lots of charming details:

At 5, Edward received a toy printing press as a gift and began publishing his own newspaper. (It was a very small newspaper, about the size of a postcard, his son said.)