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Copyediting Quiz: The Year-End Fake News Roundup Edition

<p>The following are five fake news stories from 2017. The answers below follow the <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/emmyf/buzzfeed-style-guide">BuzzFeed Style Guide</a>.</p>

President is capitalized when it comes before a name; BF style is to take the periods out of _US_; and "embassy" is capitalized when paired with a nation, but lowercased without (the _Norwegian Embassy_, the _US Embassy_, but _the embassy_); and "Chuck E. Cheese's" is styled like so.

Trump officially recognized a different locale as Israel's capital city, and now the embassy will be relocated.  


In titles, lowercase the prepositions shorter than four letters (by, of, to, at). Movie titles are italicized, and "postproduction" is closed up. In other answers, some names and words are misspelled and/or duplicated.

Some last-minute changes were made to Armie Hammer's new movie, which may change everything.

Dr. Seuss needs the apostrophe + s after it; our rule is that any name that ends with an _S_ sound has _'s_, while the names that end with a _Z_ sound just get the apostrophe. "Tell all" does not take the hyphen as a verb (but it is hyphenated as a noun). Papadopoulos = Papa + Do + Poul + Os.

The newest revelation in the Russia–Trump investigation implicated one of the all-time greatest author-illustrators.

A plural phrase like "attorneys general" should never follow the phrase "there is." \*_grinds teeth_\\* "People magazine" is styled like so, as BuzzFeed styles magazine titles without italics, and generally a publication is referred to as a single entity (_has_, not _have_). The formal title of the decree is "Sexiest Man Alive," which takes capital letters unless it's paraphrased. Also: The title isn't _sexist_ man alive.

This year's most important accolade was revoked and provided to its rightful recipient.

"Eurodance" is one word. Lowercase "the" before any band name. Capitalize "pope" before a name, but lowercase "the pope" when on its own. Song titles come packaged in quotes, but when they're already within a quote, they take single quote marks. Bless this mess!

Pope Francis suggested that the translation of the Lord's Prayer needs to be updated.

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Copyediting Quiz: The Year-End Fake News Roundup Edition

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Copyediting Quiz: The Year-End Fake News Roundup Edition

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