The Times Style Guide: An authoritative guide to English usage

by The Times

Uncover the rules, conventions and policies on spelling, grammar and usage followed by the journalists, contributors and editors working on the Times newspaper.


Royal Family or royal family? Frontrunner or front-runner? Assure or ensure? Affect or effect? Even the most accomplished writer will run up against these and many similar problems in the quest for clear, elegant and grammatical writing.


The Times editors answer these and hundreds of other usage conundrums with a comprehensive collection of entries covering the quirky minefield of the English language.


Although no literary straitjacket, this authoritative guide is the foundation of correct English usage for all Times journalists and contributors and provides a benchmark style, the essential ingredient of all well-written English.

272 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2016

About the author

The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register, adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times (founded in 1821) are published by Times Newspapers, since 1981 a subsidiary of News UK, in turn wholly owned by News Corp. The Times and The Sunday Times do not share editorial staff, were founded independently, and have only had common ownership since 1967.

See also:
The Sunday Times
The New York Times
The Times of India
The Tampa Bay Times
The Los Angeles Times
The Economic Times
The Seattle Times
The Irish Times
The Straits Times

Reviews

[Mark · Rating 3 out of 5]

I don't write professionally as much as I used to, but even so I like a good style guide. This has much that is very sensible and even if I disagree with the occasional stylistic choice (e.g. I don't like "eg"), it would make a good ready-made basis for a team to use.