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Here’s another one for all of the typography geeks who read this blog. Last week in the Ottawa Citizen, a typo in the headline about the University of Ottawa inadvertently called the school “U of Zero” insted of “U of O”. ...

[ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/u-of-zero.jpg) To me, that looks like “U of Zero” rather than “U of O”. What do you think? Could be an honest typo, of course – the 0 and O are close together on the keyboard. (From an article on the front page of today’s Ottawa Citizen. ...

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Next week, the Ottawa Citizen will stop using honorifics – the use of “Mr.”, “Mrs.”, “Dr.”, etc. According to writer Tom Spears on the Dark Matter Science blog : In 10 days we will stop using honorifics. Citizen management has decided that after a dozen years, all references to Mr. ...

Funny post today from Derek Puddicombe on the Ottaw Sun’s “Sun and The City” blog. An excerpt: ** ** Never in my almost dozen or so years of doing this job have I ever had a reaction to a word or phrase I've used in a story. ...