Your Beloved U.S. Is Now A Noun

It appears we were a bit hasty (blogs? hasty? what?) in yesterday’s announcement of AP form changes for the upcoming year. It turns out there are a host of changes:

• A new entry on child care, noting AP style is two words.
  
  
• A new entry on touch-screen, noting it is hyphenated.
  
  
• New entries on video game and voice mail, noting AP style is
  two words in each case.
  
  
  
• A changed entry on backyard, making it one word in all cases.