I have never heard of the baby boom happening in 1974! It happened in 1945 - WWII, and 1965 - Viet Nam! Here are 2 definitions, 1 from Random House, the...
... That definition, from the OED, probably uses the dates as a mark of when the term came into popular usage, not the dates of the Baby Boom itself. The term,...
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That makes a lot of sense! I find it fascinating how a term coined by the news media evolves into a commonly used term such as this one has. Although I do...
... Some authors use quote marks to indicate irony, in place of the expression "so-called." You might want to check and see if the author is doing that before...
OED dates are not a definition, and do not "mark ... when the term came into popular usage". They are just citations of usages found in print. First oral...
... Terms that describe an event sometimes come into being long after the event, and I believe a dictionary normally reflects when the term started being used,...
... Thanks for your comments and explanation. I did some further research and found that U.S. birthrates started to climb in 1940, thus the term's usage in...
An apology is embedded below. ... I see now that my original message gave only the OED dates, and I didn't include the OED definition and the 1941 quotation...
Hello all, My name is Sheila Ryan and I'm introducing myself to the list, having just enrolled in the UC Berkeley online indexing course. I've been lurking on ...
... As one born about nine months after the end of WW II, I had always heard that I and my contemporaries were on the leading edge of the baby boom. Now, with...
... Ed, technically our baby boom started in 1940! This surprised me as well (and I assume most people). The 1941 quote was from an edition of _Life_ magazine,...
I've stayed out of this fray, but now I have to get my two cents in. While the term "baby boom" or "baby boomer" was coined around 1941 to refer to a...
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I recently had an author express concern that the index I wrote for his book was posted on my website. Per our agreement the full rights will transfer to the...
... Perhaps you could post just the first page; that might fall under "fair use." You'd have to read up on "fair use." I wonder how much you'd have to edit an...
... It's hard to imagine that a publisher would deny permission to put a copy of a published index on your web page, so my first inclination would be simply to...
Carol wrote: <snip> I use links to Amazon, which (as you point out) bypasses copyright issues. When you do that, you have to check periodically to make sure ...
I need to know if I need to change the sorting on these 2 entries: vitamin B2 (riboflavin), 48-50 vitamin B1 (thiamine hydrochloride), 46-48 Cindex ignored the...
... I'd sort them the other way, B1 first. In the "Sort" window, if you check the "evaluate numbers" box, Cindex should switch those two lines. But of course...
That's what I thought would look better in the index, with the 2 entries switched, but since I haven't had this come up before, I thought I had better ask....
... You're welcome. It's too bad I no longer have a copy of Laurel's Kitchen, which contains a lot of info on vitamins. I wanted to see how that index handled...
... From: "Bobbi Swanson" <bobbiswanson@...> ... I agree with what's been said about sorting, but want to point out that you can consider leaving out...
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Dec 8, 2005 4:51 pm
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There was once a site devoted to Dragon Naturally Speaking and it's use in indexing. On one of the other indexing yahoo groups this topic has come up again so...
Applying the principal of indexing what the author writes, I find myself with dozens of instances where the Spanish title of a book is followed by an English...
... I prefer one set of parens, so I do it this way: title (translation; author's last name) Cheers, Carol Roberts, indexer and copy editor indexer@... ...
Carol's suggestion is good but here is second option as well: title (translation) [author's last name] Sylvia Coates ... From: "Carol" <indexer@...> To:...
Some indexers have found my Timekeep for Windows(c) utility useful in tracking indexing statistics and estimating costs of potential jobs. The software...
I'm doing my first index of a religious text and I am wondering how to index Paul. He is just referred to as Paul and my thought is to index him as Paul. ...
One thought I have is that because it is a religious text, apparently about the Bible/New Testament (is that the case?) you would not have to have any...
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