What was done with new phrases?
Take 9/11. Perhaps because FA style spelled out numbers under 10, I felt that 9/11 looked strange and informal. Thus the magazine refers to that date as September 11. In the first year after the terrorist attacks, we frequently referred to the attacks just with that date, but as time passed we moved more and more toward referring to them as “the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.” I can envision college students 25 years from now using back issues of FA for research, and to them the reference “9/11” may have no meaning whatsoever—just as 11/4/79 (the date that the U.S. embassy in Tehran was seized by Iranian students) may not have meaning for today’s college student. Another publication I was reading yesterday referred to “7/7,” which I thought was some new variant of 24/7 until I realized that it was a reference to the bombings in London in July this year. Or take Timor-Leste. I would guess that many of the readers of Copy Editor (and of Foreign Affairs) would not recognize that
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