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[GWL]: Country Living Magazine

Jerry said: <I still look at a
newspaper article as so many words, while my editors now refer to it as so
many "graphs".>
 
I have not heard "graphs" in my magazine and newspaper writing (mostly Canadian); editors are still asking me for so many words, even the very young ones (and they are all getting younger, I've noticed!)  Can you share with us who uses that term, "graphs", and what they mean by it?  Are graphs and words interchangeable terms or does a graph mean a certain sized block of text, i.e., a certain number of words?
 
A lot of editors I work with use the term "images" for pictures; some say pictures; some say art.  Alla same.
 
Here (in Canada) I hear both captions and cutlines.  We know what they mean, anyway.
 
The term which had me scrambling for a reference book a few years ago was "header".  The editor in question ( a young one ) used it to mean a further description of an article's title - for example - Title: Sex in the Spice Garden;  Header: A garden variety Spice Girl reveals the secrets of making more plants in the herb garden. She wanted a longer description.
 
We've gotten a long way away from Country Living Magazine! :-)
 
Darlene White
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