{"id":1982,"date":"2004-04-23T08:23:34","date_gmt":"2004-04-23T15:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2004\/04\/23\/1982.html"},"modified":"2004-04-23T08:23:34","modified_gmt":"2004-04-23T15:23:34","slug":"fantasy-dictionary-and-style-g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2004\/04\/23\/fantasy-dictionary-and-style-g\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantasy dictionary and style guide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I've come to the conclusion that what the field needs is a dictionary, or at least a spelling guide, for common fantasy terms.  Words like <span class=\"word-as-word\">scry<\/span> and <span class=\"word-as-word\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceantar.org\/Dicts\/MB2\/mb20.html\">geas<\/a><\/span> and <span class=\"word-as-word\">sword fighting<\/span> and <span class=\"word-as-word\">spellcaster<\/span> and so on.  Some of them appear only in unabridged dictionaries (I just subscribed to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.m-w.com\/cgi-bin\/unabridged_sub.pl\">Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged<\/a>, and discovered by accident that if you say you want the free 14-day trial, they offer you two free months if you switch to a year's subscription, so it comes to 14 months for $30); others appear only in foreign-language dictionaries; others are compound words that don't show up in the dictionaries at all (which I usually assume means they're open compounds, to be spelled with a space in the middle, but I'm always a little hesitant about that).<\/p>\n<p>I imagine the publishing companies that produce lots of high fantasy and\/or lots of D&amp;D tie-ins probably have style guides that list preferred spellings (and sometimes usage) for all such words; I wonder if such a company could be imposed upon to post such a guide online for public use.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve come to the conclusion that what the field needs is a dictionary, or at least a spelling guide, for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speculative-fiction"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}