Grandma Girl here, I'm Nion Fog Fog

Fog, and today I'm here with Russell Harper and Mary

Lauer from the Chicago Manual of Style.

They were editors for the new update that just came out, the 18th edition of this massively

important style book, and it only happens every seven years I believe so we are going to

nerd out about the Chicago manual style words and language today Russell and Mary

welcome to the Grammar Girl podcast.

Thank you.

So did I get that right?

Is it every seven years that there's an update?

Yeah, that's pretty much the schedule working on.

Seven years, the last few editions, right, Mary. I mean, it's been as long as 20 years, I think, like, from the 11th

addition to the 12th, 1949 to 1969, and in the early years, there is an addition, like every other year

practically. So it's varied but

recently about seven. So with such a long update schedule before we get into the

nitty gritty can you give me a big picture of how that goes? I mean are you already

starting on the next edition or do you have you know a couple years off before you

have to think about it again? How does it how does it all work work well I'm the editor at the press who

oversees the whole process so I can tell you that we do start working on the new

edition even before the old one is out. So it's not really a surprise. Russell and I already have a

CMOS 19 folder started. So we're constantly collecting suggestions from users via the Q&A and that's one of the things that Russell does in his role.

So he's seeing constantly what people are asking about and what they're interested in seeing more of.

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