Miss Read: All Comments

(Please read this as a JOKE, or at least a half-joke, from another freak copy editor.)

"It was Friday afternoon and we were ready to celebrate." --arguably these clauses are not short enough to omit the necessary comma between them.

fielding queries, yes.
fielding comments? hmm.
fielding changes? grr.

dust-covered=no hyphen unless placed before a noun

(why hyphenate copy-edit but not proofread?)

wash cloth=washcloth

"connect words to each other"--s/b connect words to one another

why put 'pure' in quotes when the word is not being used figuratively?