Guardian style guide @guardianstyle
The Guardian style guide editors on language usage and abusage, and lots more theguardian.com/styleguide London Joined April 2010-
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It's OK to say it! But pounds is probably better. x.com/richardosman/s…
It's OK to say it! But pounds is probably better. x.com/richardosman/s…
Goat's cheese. As our former style ed @davidrmarsh put it: "Phrases such as butcher's hook, collector's item, cow's milk, goat's cheese and writer's cramp are best treated as singular. We either don't know or don't care whether one goat, or many, are involved." x.com/briteeyedviole…
Goat's cheese. As our former style ed @davidrmarsh put it: "Phrases such as butcher's hook, collector's item, cow's milk, goat's cheese and writer's cramp are best treated as singular. We either don't know or don't care whether one goat, or many, are involved." x.com/briteeyedviole…
We do! One space after a full stop. Two is … brave, but not right. x.com/stecopywriting…
We do! One space after a full stop. Two is … brave, but not right. x.com/stecopywriting…
Unbelievable sign on the way out of the game and on the way to buses back into Pasadena. #WalesAway #Whales
Our style for "anniversary": first anniversary, 10th anniversary etc; not one-year anniversary, 10-year anniversary. There is no such thing as a six-month anniversary. theguardian.com/guardian-obser…
Best - and simultaneously most disappointing - @guardian correction of the day
We hope so, Jim! IMHO: "in my humble opinion". "Honest" is good, but it's not right. x.com/jimwaterson/st…
"Hard-on" with a hyphen, we reckon. And "hard-ons" as the plural, even if "hards-on" does have a certain poetry to it. x.com/lottelydia/sta…
"Hard-on" with a hyphen, we reckon. And "hard-ons" as the plural, even if "hards-on" does have a certain poetry to it. x.com/lottelydia/sta…
Fascinating piece from @holpuch on @lynneguist's new book on British and American English. Plus a fun language quiz! theguardian.com/science/2018/a…
Yes, you're right: bands, like football teams, take a plural verb. Iron Maiden know how to rock, Coldplay are inexplicably popular, Liverpool haven't won the league for 28 years, and so on. x.com/paulie/status/…
Swear words: use when necessary to the facts of a piece, or to portray a character in an article. Thus, Rex Tillerson reportedly referred to Donald Trump as a "fucking moron". Not an "effing moron" or a "f****** moron". Asterisks are a cop-out.
Or an exclamation by Ron Manager, perhaps. x.com/davidrmarsh/st…
Or an exclamation by Ron Manager, perhaps. x.com/davidrmarsh/st…
Lovely long read on the @OED by @andydickson – can the world’s biggest dictionary survive the internet? theguardian.com/news/2018/feb/…
On death: write, for example, "Billy Graham has died aged 99". Avoid "passed away", "passed on" or any other euphemism. "Died" is simpler, clearer and better.
Upcoming: a jargon word to be avoided. An editor – Bernard Kilgore, reputedly – once told his staff: “If I read upcoming in the Wall Street Journal again, I shall be downcoming and somebody will be outgoing.” theguardian.com/guardian-obser…
How language duped us into austerity | Zoe Williams d.gu.com/QGd97J
Kraft cheese slices, Nigel Slater, and the parliamentary constituency of Hove – all described in the Guardian as "iconic" in a heady fortnight in 2010 x.com/alex_vanvliet/…
Kraft cheese slices, Nigel Slater, and the parliamentary constituency of Hove – all described in the Guardian as "iconic" in a heady fortnight in 2010 x.com/alex_vanvliet/…
A good day to consider how we write about stock markets and the economy. 'Plunge', 'slump', 'turmoil', 'shockwave', 'volatile' and so on: cliches to avoid or useful terms to help tell the story?
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Goat's cheese. As our former style ed @davidrmarsh put it: "Phrases such as butcher's hook, collector's item, cow's milk, goat's cheese and writer's cramp are best treated as singular. We either don't know or don't care whether one goat, or many, are involved." x.com/briteeyedviole…
@guardianstyle I’m not worthy madam, sir, bot. :-) All hail @guardianstyle
What about Norwegia? x.com/guardianstyle/…
@muchobenny Atriums. Also stadiums, not stadia.
I wrote an article with Bob Anderson 25 years ago where we used ‘atriums’. The editors of @JACCJournals changed to atria. We protested and they finally conceded, but with a footnote pointing out “the authors’ idiosyncrasy”! x.com/guardianstyle/…
@muchobenny Atriums. Also stadiums, not stadia.
@guardianstyle Sanguine means optimistic. The other contenders would not be phlegmatic... in fact they would probably be choleric
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@MadsYork @guardianstyle I quite like "Markle and the prince", perhaps because it has the ring of a Dr Seuss story. I think it's the hard plosive "k".
Hi, @pgreenfielduk. Minor point - people are discharged, not released, from hospital. They’re not prisons. @guardianstyle
Just noticed this "Click image to embiggen" on an old Guardian article. Is "to embiggen" in common use, @guardianstyle, or is it a Simpson in-joke?
@guardianstyle Yep. I see. But still a Bakewell pudding? Nobody is mad enough to make them anywhere else ;-)
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@guardianstyle @Grimezsz @FourTet Agree. I used to be snobby about it and assume anyone using plural meant they didn't know eg that The Streets is actually Mike Skinner. Then I got caught out once with Roots Manuva so stopped being such a knob about it
BBC website headline today: "Heather Locklear charged with battery". Someone probably just got the cables mixed up. Easily done. @guardianstyle