Glenn Coleman, the editor of Financial Week, a Crain’s publication, got into a headline battle recently with his copy editors.
Here is how Coleman tells the story: “Thought I’d send this 2/11 front page because of our headline ‘Bristol-Myers squibbed by auction-rate bonds.’
“It got a strong love/hate reaction from the wordsmithies, internally and externally. My copy desk still wants to strangle me with the unabridged Webster’s Third New International (its ‘squibbed’ entry includes the somewhat-ironic definition 1b: ‘to utter in an offhand manner’!!)
“Of course, the fact that it’s one of our most viewed and emailed stories of the young year only pisses ’em off more.”
See below. I showed it to one Old School copy editor friend of mine, and he said he wanted to gag.
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If you wsnt to use the pun Squibbed then the S should be capitalized. Lower case does not give you the wink wink you were probably looking for.