On What It's Really Like To Be A Copy Editor
I heard once (and it could be a post-explanation that isn't real anyway) that many AP style rules went to the side of transmitting fewer characters. Hence the lack of serial comma. That doesn't explain the awful, awkward, recently departed "Web site" over "website," though.
Posted on July 21, 2010 at 4:27 pm
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On What It's Really Like To Be A Copy Editor
Someone nearly quit at my last job over this very thing.