We claim to hate selfies, but almost all of us have taken at least one.
See?
Selfies may be just a fad, but the Associated Press isn’t taking any chances on journalists using the term incorrectly while the concept lasts.
The Associated Press added selfie to its stylebook.
AP Style tip: New to the Stylebook: selfie – a self-portrait photo taken with a phone or webcam and shared over a social network. #ACES2014
— AP Stylebook (@APStylebook) March 20, 2014
The addition was announced during the American Copy Editors Society’s 18th annual conference this week in Las Vegas. You can follow other announcements and news related to the conference using #ACES14 on Twitter.
Regardless of whether you like this type of addition to the Stylebook, it’s helpful for professional writers to have consistent standards of word usage. I, for one, don’t mind them adding “selfie” to the manual as much as I hate another change announced today.
AP Style tip: New to the Stylebook: over, as well as more than, is acceptable to indicate greater numerical value. #ACES2014
— AP Stylebook (@APStylebook) March 20, 2014
This is a change I don’t think I can bring myself to embrace. Over and under are states of being. That’s the end of this discussion for me.
Let’s talk nerdy!
What do you think of the AP Style changes? Will you use them?
Maybe the stylebook people are like me. After years of fighting the over/more than battle, the futility of the effort has made me give up the fight.
That would disappoint me greatly. I want to keep this fight alive!
I will be keep using “more than” instead of “over.”
I agree 100%