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Steven Womack's avatar

Many years ago, I had a discussion on this very issue with my good friend and wonderful writer Sharyn McCrumb. She told me she got so mad at one copy editor that she had two rubber stamps made. One read: "STET"

And the other read: "STET, DAMMIT!"

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Liz Gauffreau's avatar

What a shame. It sounds as though the copyeditor didn't know what he was doing.

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