"(Both editions of Eagle of the Ninth have 'Luguvallium', though, so maybe FSG meant to make it consistent and chose the wrong spelling.)"
Awesome reasoning!
Here's a relevant anecdote: Back in the late 1980s, my father used, in a manuscript of his, the 1943-era state abbreviations, which were still being used at that time by those of us who were old-fashioned.
The OUP copy editor took a look at the press's style manual, which said that two-letter capitalized abbreviations are printed without punctuation. Whereupon she did this:
D. C. > DC
N. H. > NH
N. J. > NJ
And so forth. However, she didn't change abbreviations like this:
Ala.
Ariz.
Ark.
In vain did my father point out that she was mixing up 1943-era abbreviations (which used periods) with 1963-era abbreviations (which didn't). The copy editor insisted that this was what the style manual said, so she was going by the style manual.
My point being that copy editors can be dumb like that. (I say this as a former copy editor.)
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Date: 2022-10-05 03:28 pm (UTC)"(Both editions of Eagle of the Ninth have 'Luguvallium', though, so maybe FSG meant to make it consistent and chose the wrong spelling.)"
Awesome reasoning!
Here's a relevant anecdote: Back in the late 1980s, my father used, in a manuscript of his, the 1943-era state abbreviations, which were still being used at that time by those of us who were old-fashioned.
The OUP copy editor took a look at the press's style manual, which said that two-letter capitalized abbreviations are printed without punctuation. Whereupon she did this:
And so forth. However, she didn't change abbreviations like this:
In vain did my father point out that she was mixing up 1943-era abbreviations (which used periods) with 1963-era abbreviations (which didn't). The copy editor insisted that this was what the style manual said, so she was going by the style manual.
My point being that copy editors can be dumb like that. (I say this as a former copy editor.)