Retired court reporter Santo (Joe) Aurelio, FAPR, RDR (Ret.), Arlington, Mass., is one of the presenters who will be leading sessions during the new NCRA…
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Current events seem to play a big role in this year’s decisions by dictionary makers for a word of the year. Merriam-Webster Merriam-Webster chose justice…
To celebrate National Grammar Day on March 4, the JCR polled the Proofreading Advisory Council on words that surprised them. These are the words that…
The JCR recently reached out to NCRA’s Proofreading Advisory Council members asking their opinion on spelling and capitalization on a variety of technology terms. Council…
USA Today posted an article on Dec. 21 listing the 10 most mispronounced words of 2017. Among them, are bokeh, coulrophobia, and dotard. The words…
It’s December, which means lighting candles, singing carols, and eagerly awaiting the dictionaries’ choices for the Word of the Year. Dictionary.com chose complicit as the…
The differences between written and spoken language were explored in a blog post by Cleveland Reporting Partners, with examples from Seinfeld and My Cousin Vinny.…
The JCR recently reached out to NCRA’s Proofreading Advisory Council for recommendations on references for spelling, grammar, and language. Council members shared their favorite print…
Court reporters and captioners understand the value of continuing education and always improving one’s skills, but it can be challenging to attend in-person events. With…
In honor of National Punctuation Day, which was on Sept. 24, the JCR hosted a discussion with NCRA’s Proofreading Advisory Council about punctuation marks. Members…
By Brenda Rogers-Fiscus, Deborah Smolinske, and Beverly Thomas Proofreading is the last step in the finalization of your transcript. The proofreader’s eyes are the last…
Santo “Joe” Aurelio, FAPR, RDR (Ret.), has always had an attraction to the English language, first as a court reporter and later as a professor…
By Dom Tursi All Things English By Margie Wakeman Wells Margie Holds Court Publishing, 2016 Since I turned the first page of All Things English,…
Oxford Dictionaries came out with their word of the year in mid-November, choosing post-truth for 2016. Oxford Dictionaries has noticed “an expansion in the meaning…
Oxford Dictionaries posted a video in September explaining why adjectives appear in a certain order before a noun. Read more.
By Santo J. Aurelio Punctuation is extremely important. Without it, sentences cannot be understood. The job of a reporter is basically twofold: to capture all…
A June 23 post by the Oxford English Dictionary shares the “more than 1,000 new words and senses and nearly 2,000 fully revised or partially…
In an Aug. 7 post on Quartz, linguist Gretchen McCulloch talks about how young women are the ones who change English the most. Among other…
By Caitlin Pyle Reporters, scopists, proofreaders… anyone who touches a transcript knows: Proofreading is never easy! Some errors are so common, proofreading eyes can see…
Inc. recently published an article on 20 idioms that are commonly misspelled even on reputable websites. The article compares the actual spelling with the most…