Re: Washington Post style guide from 1970s?

Subject: Re: Washington Post style guide from 1970s?
From: Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>
To: TECHWR-L Writing <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 09:36:27 -0800

Oh yeah, very hard. It took me two seconds.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1978/01/26/you-win-some-you-lose-some/f930d1e5-e131-4806-8f73-cd78f266f989/

On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 4:16 PM, <mbaker -at- analecta -dot- com> wrote:
> That's the sort of question it is very hard to Google for. Google is much
> better at finding information than documents.
>
> The first thing I would try is to ask on the English Language and Usage
> Stack Exchange: http://english.stackexchange.com/
>
> ark
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> To all:
>
> I'm looking to document trivia I know to be true because I lived through it.
>
> In the mid-1970s, the Washington Post revised its style manual to mandate
> the dropping of the second "e" in words like "employee" and "trustee." For
> a time, "employe" and "truste" were used in all Washington Post news
> articles and features. The Post's ombudsman wrote a column decrying the
> silliness of the change. After a time (months? a couple of years?) the
> style manual was revised again to once again allow words ending in "ee" to
> be so spelled in the newspaper.
>
> Question: how best to find the documents? I've done Google searches and, as
> yet, have been unable to find archived copies of the style guide. I'll go
> looking for the ombudsman's column, but I can't remember his name. Ideas?
>
> Thanks!
>
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