Greetings and salutations, communicators!
Are you going to game day Saturday? Do you have your Ducks game-day gear? Maybe you’re watching ESPN College GameDay instead?
And just how many versions of “game day” are there, anyway?
Get clarity on this and more in November’s University of Oregon Editorial Style Guide quick tips, which helps ensure your communications follow UO editorial style.
faculty
Faculty refers to a group of faculty members and multiple faculty members. Either is acceptable: The faculty is present. The faculty are present.
Faculty member is the singular form: The faculty member finished a research project.
well-being
With cold and flu season upon us, note that use of “wellbeing” will make your editor ill.
New in the style guide:
game day
Two words as a noun: Please check the Autzen Stadium website for information about where to park for game day.
Hyphenate as an adjective: Be sure to share photos of your game-day experience.
Can be modified as a proper noun: ESPN’s College GameDay is a popular pregame show.
Merriam-Webster—a good one to bookmark, it’s the official dictionary for UO editorial style—doesn’t recognize “gameday” as a noun (or adjective, for that matter). When using the term as an adjective or modifier, note that according to the Chicago Manual of Style—also good to bookmark—“it is never incorrect to hyphenate adjectival compounds before a noun.” Thus, “game-day experience.” Proper nouns are the exception—follow constructions such as ESPN College GameDay.
Latinx or Latino/a or Latine or . . . ?
The short answer: ask your subject what they prefer. Merriam-Webster recognizes Latinx as a gender-neutral alternative to Latina or Latino. But the term is by no means universally accepted; the Patos Alumni Network, for example, prefers Latine, while the university is also home to the Center for Latino/a & Latin American Studies.
Questions? Email editor Matt Cooper, University Communications.