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Now basically rather “edited” ∞
My low back pain book is now the third in my inventory to be professionally edited (at considerable expense). The changes are only obvious to grammar Nazis and punctuation nitpickers — Oxford commas now standard! Most readers will just experience a richer, creamier read without knowing exactly why. But to make this interesting, I’ll humiliate myself …
- unnecessary scare quotes
- virtually
- pretty (much)
- bear in mind
- there is little doubt
- single best
- ultimately
- basically
- rather
- actually
- simply
- very
- bit of a
There is little doubt this is “basically” rather embarrassing! But that’s pretty much why I simply hired the single best editor I could find.
In addition to the professional editing, I’ve also now logged about eighty noteworthy updates to my low back pain book since 2009, plus at least another hundred unlogged tweaks and touch-ups.
