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The Times Style Guide: A practical guide to English usage
The official style guide followed by The Times and The Sunday Times.Uncover the rules, conventions and policies on spelling, grammar and usage followed by the journalists, contributors and editors working on the Times and Sunday Times newspapers. Now updated with all the latest policy decisions.
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 and Sunday 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 and Sunday Times journalists and contributors and provides a benchmark style, the essential ingredient of all well-written English.
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 and Sunday 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 and Sunday Times journalists and contributors and provides a benchmark style, the essential ingredient of all well-written English.
402 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 12, 2022
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June 19, 2022
An interesting and informative read. It was also funny:
“Decimate by strict etymology might mean to kill one in ten: it is now more widely used (to the annoyance of zealots) as a non-specific indication of heavy casualties or damage. Opportunities to write about the killing of precisely one in ten being fairly rare, there is no compelling reason to resist the more general use.”
“Decimate by strict etymology might mean to kill one in ten: it is now more widely used (to the annoyance of zealots) as a non-specific indication of heavy casualties or damage. Opportunities to write about the killing of precisely one in ten being fairly rare, there is no compelling reason to resist the more general use.”
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