pameladean

I have certainly found that there's a lot of editorial madness going around with copyeditors attempting to change mountains of things that aren't incorrect, down to frequently changing them into things that are either incorrect themselves or things that are not incorrect but inappropriate. One oddity was an editor who, whenever there were multiple accepted usages, always changed mine, and al;ways changed it from the usage that appears first in the dictionary to one that appears second or third. And I just dealt with one who thought that the preliminary scenes of a story, which told of events twenty-five or so years before the rest, should therefore all be in past perfect. Also that the story must be from the point of view of the protagonist, and so therefore everything my omniscient narrator said that the protagonist didn't know had to be excised. And so on.

But mostly it's things like changing "got a break" to "caught a break." Both are correct: why change it?