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# Telegraph style book: Yy

6:57PM GMT 18 Feb 2008

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Yahoo! has an exclamation mark.

years: 2006-07, not 2006/7.

Yes, Minister

yesterday: use sparingly in news stories. It is rarely necessary, and
confusing for internet readers.

yogurt. Not yoghurt.

YouGov: thus.

youngster is tabloid.

youth: a useful word to describe males aged 16-18.

Yushchenko, Viktor: President of Ukraine

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