July 11, 2011
#923: Strunk and White explain
[Hairbun, with glasses, sits behind a desk typing on a computer. A line goes from the keyboard indicating that the text above is the one she types. Behind her stand Cueball with a book in his hand, and a man with male-pattern baldness holding up a smoking pipe.]
Dear Internet,
We, the current editors of
Strunk & White’s The Elements of
Style, must—with great reluctance—
clarify a point of orthography:
“Strunk & White” should be
used for the style manual and
“Strunk/White” for the erotic
fan fiction pairing.