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July 11, 2011

#923: Strunk and White explain

Strunk and White

[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.