The Word Tweet Shall Not Appear in the New York Times; Jargon is For the Birds
“Some social-media fans may disagree, but outside of ornithological contexts, ‘tweet’ has not yet achieved the status of standard English,” wrote Phil Corbett, New York Times standards editor, in a memo to the paper’s staff yesterday, according to Choire Sicha. “And standard English is what we should use in news articles.”
Mr. Corbett notes that Read More
