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by Anna Jo Bratton, AP Stylebook Editor on April 27, 2026
It’s been a big week for the AP Stylebook! On Friday, we announced changes including healthcare, which the AP now advises writing as one word. The decision was a long time in the making, and the response was great – gasps, applause (some groans, I’m sure) in the ballroom at ACES: The Society for Editing’s conference in Atlanta, and across the style and language community.

Other changes include: a new, separate entry for Native Americans, Indigenous people/peoples, outside of the race-related coverage entry; updates to sports terms such as ping-pong, long shot, offside; and guidance on the term “accident,” specifically adding language around gun incidents. 

This isn’t the end of our news for the upcoming AP Stylebook, 58th Edition, which is coming on May 27. We’ll have a new set of announcements in the week leading up to the new book’s launch. I’m also going to be a guest on Mignon Fogarty’s Grammar Girl podcast, airing May 7. And you can catch Grammar Girl, along with members of our Stylebook Committee, in our AP Stylebook Workshop, starting May 6.

Thanks to our ACES audience for a conference full of language lovers, and to all of our AP Stylebook subscribers, whose questions and input constantly keep us on our toes. We appreciate you!

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