You have your crotchets, and I have mine

We all have opinions, and many of them are about words or constructions that we dislike intensely.* But I, as a professional editor, must keep my idiosyncratic preferences under restraint. Thus it becomes necessary to rationalize my crotchets to give them some color of authority. Take, for example, ongoing . To you it's likely innocuous; to me it is irritating because the context is almost always…