Stet

Stet is an obelism, used by proofreaders and editors to instruct the typesetter or writer to disregard a change the editor or proofreader had previously marked. It is a form of the Latin verb sto, stare, steti, statum[1]. This usage of the verb, known as the "jussive subjunctive",[2] derives from the active-voiced third-person subjunctive singular present and is typically translated as "Let it stand"[3] or "As you were".

For other uses, see Stet (disambiguation).

Conventionally, the content that included the edit to be disregarded was underlined using dashes or dots with a blue pencil and stet written and circled above or beside it.[3] Alternatively, a circled tick or checkmark could be placed beside the content in a margin.[4]

Other uses

Stet is sometimes also used imperatively, as in, for example:

  • "Stet that colon",[3]
  • "Stet Nick Allen's paragraph that was deleted."
gollark: And?
gollark: The effectiveness in general scales with how many people have it and how good the vaccines are individually. We want to maximize that. So... it's sensible to reduce one factor because the other is lower?!
gollark: This is a... very bizarre argument?
gollark: Like removing unwanted mountains.
gollark: You could repurpose it for a ton of useful tasks.

See also

References
  1. Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles. "A Latin Dictionary". Retrieved 5 June 2020.
  2. Heuchan, Valerie. "Latin Grammar Review Pages" (PDF). Retrieved 5 June 2020.
  3. "stet". Dictionary.com. Random House. 1 October 2007. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
  4. "Copy preparation and proof correction. Specification for typographic requirements, marks for copy preparation and proof correction, proofing procedure", BS 5261-2:2005, British Standards Institution, 2005
  • The dictionary definition of stet at Wiktionary
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