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Bill Walsh, copy editor and witty authority on language, dies at 55
Bill Walsh, a Washington Post copy editor who wrote three irreverent books about his craft, noting evolutions and devolutions of language, the indispensability of hyphens and his hostility toward semicolons, and distinctions - for the sake of clarity - between Playboy Playmates and Playboy Bunnies, died March 15 at a hospice center in Arlington, Virginia. He was 55.
The cause was complications from bile-duct cancer, said his wife, Jacqueline Dupree, a Post informational technology specialist.
In the hurly-burly of a newsroom, where even the best reporters have widely varying degrees of grammatical competence, copy editors are the often unheralded guardians of language and...
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