08/24/2025
CAUTION: Swim at your own risk — typos are rampant.
1. How to treat a header is a style choice: You can have AP or CMS style, sentence style, all caps, title case, etc.
Yet depending on the style, a few rules may apply.
A) Cap all verbs, no matter how small
B) Cap every word, including prepositions
C) Cap just the first word (proper nouns excluded)
What you can't do is pick and choose among styles, and that's what happened below. Solution: Either cap "is" or lowercase "covering."
2. The running text is just plain out of control. Is filamentous algae singular or plural? Is the text referring specifically to filamentous algae or the type of algae that grows in long, thread-like strands? And, again, is that latter type of algae singular or plural? It or they; is or are? Ugh!
For the record:
You use a singular verb when referring to algae as a mass or collective substance; you use a plural verb when referring to multiple types or individual organisms of algae. This sign is toggling between filamentous algae as singular and plural, making consistency all but impossible.
3. And if you're going to use the series comma, use it throughout.
4. I'd also write "… [a] food source for… ," but I forgot to mark it. 🤣
Any thoughts, TypoSuckers?
p.s. Yes, this is what I do when out in nature. Don't judge me.
