Google says tomato … | footnoted.org
Footnoted—which usually offers color commentary on corporate SEC filings and other documents—calls out Google for adopting the revised AP style for ‘website’ in their legalese. (I’m the in purple of a Venn diagram of this joke.)
Despite living in the brave new world of the blogosphere, we can be sticklers for tradition. And nowhere does tradition lodge more firmly in an inky wretch’s heart than in the matter of style. Even as newsrooms shrink, debates rage over the that/which rule, the Oxford comma (or should that be Harvard?), begging the question (get the T-shirt!), and (for a few brave souls) even the Sisyphean struggle to expunge from the English language the clumsy over-use of “such as.”
So it was bad enough that the Associated Press came to the same conclusion last month, but we’ve long come to terms with the fact that the old blue book isn’t entirely infallible. (Why else would you need the Fake AP Stylebook?) Once we saw that Google had made the switch, however, we knew the gig was up.
