•March 30, 2022•
By Jim Baumann
NP Guest Writer

For those of you who think journalists give little thought to the words we choose, I say we certainly do — and we even have long conversations debating the spaces between them.
No, I’m not talking about reading between the lines but rather whether there should be a space between “a” and “while.”
I started out this morning as always checking my overnight email.
Neil Holdway, who runs our night operation, had come up with a design for a weekend front page. Over a Burt Constable column was the headline “Yes, masks will be around awhile.”
Hmmm, I thought. Is it “awhile” or “a while”?     Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.