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The New Yorker (not NYT) has used diaeresis in their style guide since they started and have stuck with it ever since. """ Basically, we have three options for

The New Yorker (not NYT) has used diaeresis in their style guide since they started and have stuck with it ever since. """ Basically, we have three options for these kinds of words: “cooperate,” “co-operate,” and “coöperate.” Back when the magazine was just getting started, someone decided that the first misread and the second was ridiculous, and adopted the diaeresis as the most elegant solution with the broadest application. The diaeresis is the single thing that readers of the letter-writing variety complain about most. """ https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-the-diaeresis https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-...

tkgally 3y ago
Some other New Yorker typographic peculiarities: (1) Putting a semicolon before a closing quotation mark: ... did not hide their sympathy for Eichmann or their regret that he had not “finished the job;” a broadcast from Cairo ... https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1963/02/16/eichmann-in-jerusalem-i https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1963/02/16/eichmann-in-je... But Clyde is not the urban sharpster of “The Public Enemy;” he is the hick as bank robber ... https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1967/10/21/bonnie-and-clyde https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1967/10/21/bonnie-and-cly... (2) Including commas for nonrestrictive apposition, even when there is no possibility of a restrictive interpretation: When he died, in 2004, his books and exhibitions were too numerous to count, and his magazine work had been published all over the world in the best publications. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/when-in-berlin-part-i https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/when-in-berlin... The copyeditors seem to think that writing “When he died in 2004” would imply that he had died not only in 2004 but also in another year. In general, the New Yorker uses a lot more commas than most other publications. (3) Adopting American spelling overall but using the double-ell “travelling,” “unravelling,” etc., which are more common in British spelling.
- MrVandemar 3y ago
  Fascinating! Thank you!

tkgally 3y ago

Some other New Yorker typographic peculiarities: (1) Putting a semicolon before a closing quotation mark: ... did not hide their sympathy for Eichmann or their regret that he had not “finished the job;” a broadcast from Cairo ... https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1963/02/16/eichmann-in-jerusalem-i https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1963/02/16/eichmann-in-je... But Clyde is not the urban sharpster of “The Public Enemy;” he is the hick as bank robber ... https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1967/10/21/bonnie-and-clyde https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1967/10/21/bonnie-and-cly... (2) Including commas for nonrestrictive apposition, even when there is no possibility of a restrictive interpretation: When he died, in 2004, his books and exhibitions were too numerous to count, and his magazine work had been published all over the world in the best publications. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/when-in-berlin-part-i https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/when-in-berlin... The copyeditors seem to think that writing “When he died in 2004” would imply that he had died not only in 2004 but also in another year. In general, the New Yorker uses a lot more commas than most other publications. (3) Adopting American spelling overall but using the double-ell “travelling,” “unravelling,” etc., which are more common in British spelling.

MrVandemar 3y ago
Fascinating! Thank you!