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Yes, absolutely no English speaker on earth has ever used a singular verb with "rugelach," thanks for joining in, however utterly irrelevantly.
The best black-and-whites I ever tasted were from Glaser's on the UES, and even they didn't go beyond the mission of a black-and-white, which is to be good, not excellent. The essence of a black-and-white, I think, is its happy matter-of-factness.
#CopyeditingProTip
In quoting someone else's writing, there's no reason to introduce ellipses at either the beginning or the end of the quoted matter.
In the middle, to signify deletion, absolutely. But not at the start or the finish.
In quoting someone else's writing, there's no reason to introduce ellipses at either the beginning or the end of the quoted matter.
In the middle, to signify deletion, absolutely. But not at the start or the finish.
Also, to make the quoted matter contextual with your writing, you may change an opening capital letter to a lowercase one, or vicey versey, without resorting to brackets,* but you knew that.
*Exceptions are allowed for lawyers or scholars aiming for extreme punctiliousness, but otherwise nah.
#CopyeditingProTip
Unless you're an attorney or a particularly scholarly scholar, you may, in quoting published material, capitalize a lowercase letter or lowercase a capital letter at the beginning of a quoted bit, as it serves your own text, without the use of brackets.
Unless you're an attorney or a particularly scholarly scholar, you may, in quoting published material, capitalize a lowercase letter or lowercase a capital letter at the beginning of a quoted bit, as it serves your own text, without the use of brackets.
In other words, don't do this:
Dreyer says that "[u]nless you're an attorney or a particularly scholarly scholar"...
Dreyer says that "[u]nless you're an attorney or a particularly scholarly scholar"...
Also, though all intratext deletions must be called out with ellipses, no quote needs to begin or end with them.
