atw: Friday: "Better to look wrong than to be wrong"

This is from The Chicago Manual of Style Q & A page
(http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/cmosfaq.html):

Q. I am editing an article in which two organizations are named.
Each has the word "roundtable" in its name, but one is Round Table
and the other is Roundtable. Should I leave the spellings as they
are (and risk looking like I have made a mistake) or "nudge" the
one into a single word?

A. Alas, copy editors don't have the authority to change the
names of organizations. In this case, as is often true in life,
it's better to look wrong than to be wrong.

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