Why? Was TC taken?
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> Why? Was TC taken? <
Yes. Remember we’re talking about mainstream journalism here. They use TC to mean later replace with Total Crap.
(Just kidding, of course. I don’t know why they use TK and not TC.)
I looked on Wikidpedia:
“To come” is a printing and journalism reference, commonly abbreviated to “TK”. The abbreviation is used to mark where additional material will be added to a manuscript before publication.[1][2] It is used without periods.[3]
The use of the abbreviation is to prevent the phrase “to come” from being mistaken as a deliberate part of the text.
Since very few English words feature the letter combination TK, it is more easily searchable than TC. The abbreviation TK, as well as the repeated TKTK, is a “unique and visually arresting” string that is both easily seen in running text.[1] Therefore, TK is conducive to effective copyediting and proofing.
^^^^^^
I learn something every day because of FR. Yay!😀