Gotta love this ad for an editor ... wow. Talk about someone having issues, one of them being professionalism.

Well I haven't been posting much of late. I really do want to get back to it, but being a mom, working, and looking for a home are taking all my time. I've had less freelance work in the past month as well, which allows me to clean up around here but does worry me. I assume it's a product of the economy, more freelancers, less work to send out, etc. But it's troublesome. I keep thinking about where I could look for work if needed. In the meantime I'll try to make more of this blog ...

I am working on a book this afternoon, and I see TK in the front matter, and finally I decide I am going to look and see if I can find where TK comes from, its history, and so on.



So I find these when searching around:



"Ask mb" on Mediabistro: "TK: A place marker used in drafts of an article to indicate missing information. It's short for tokum, which is the intentional misspelling of 'to come,' as in 'more info to come.'"



A comment from pkimelma on the Freakonomics NYT blog: "Many years ago, when I was doing typesetting (for fun), I was told that TK comes from Taceo Kal (Kal short for Kalendarium of course) or perhaps Tacite Kal. This reads as “Pass over 1st time” (or “Be silent 1st time”) if my memory of Latin is any good.The guy that told me this said that it was used in manuscripts going back 100s of years, and sometimes is still found in very old Religious tracts."


I see this a good deal in the books that I work on, so it is still prevalent as far as I can tell. Just wish I had a more definitive answer to who started using it and why it is a K ...