Question

Why did editors originally use a blue pencil to mark up copy? (1 point) Responses A red pen would make people feel bad. A red pen would make people feel bad. The pencil marks wouldn’t show up on photocopies of the story. The pencil marks wouldn’t show up on photocopies of the story. Regular pencils made a mess. Regular pencils made a mess. Blue is the signature color of editors.

Answer 1

The correct response is: The pencil marks wouldn’t show up on photocopies of the story. Editors originally used blue pencils because the marks made by blue pencil would not be picked up by photocopy machines, allowing for clean copies of the text during the editing process.