AP removes distinction between ‘over’ and ‘more than’ | Poynter.

AP removes distinction between ‘over’ and ‘more than’ | Poynter..

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Poynter’s Vicki Krueger shares some news from the American Copy Editors Society conference that will rock copy editors to their very cores: AP Stylebook editors said at a session Thursday that “Over” is fine when referring to a quantity; you don’t have to change it to “more than.”

The news elicited a gasp, Krueger reports.

[Editor’s note: Unlike the Onion article, this one is true.]

Related article at: http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/244265/more-than-my-dead-body-journalists-react-to-aps-overmore-than-change/