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about-us
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style-book
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1435329
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# Telegraph style book: Ww
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1:03AM BST 12 Apr 2008
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**[A][1]** | **[B][2]** | **[C][3]** | **[D][4]** | **[E][5]** | **[F][6]** |
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**[G][7]** | **[H][8]** | **[I][9]** | **[J][10]** | **[K][11]** | **[L][12]**
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**[R][18]** | **[S][19]** | **[T][20]** | **[U][21]** | **[V][22]** |
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**[W][23]** | **[X][24]** | **[Y][25]** | **[Z][26]**
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* [Telegraph style book: introduction][27]
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Wal-Mart
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Walesa, Lech
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Wallace and Gromit
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Wanamaker, Zoe
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## Related Articles
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* [Introduction][27]
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10 Jan 2008
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-ward, wards. "Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward" is how
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the King James Bible has it. Contemporary usage, however, suggests that when
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it is an adjective a word like upward, downward, backward or forward should
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not end in s, but when it is an adverb it should. For example: "homeward
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bound", "the upward and the downward slope", "forward planning", but "spread
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outwards", "peer downwards", "move forwards".
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wars: caps when there is a recognised title; the Vietnam War, First World War
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(or 1914-18 War), the Second World War (or 1939-45) War. But not World War 2
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or other variations. The term the Great War to describe the First World War is
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not incorrect, but should be confined to feature writing. Where war is not
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declared use lc w or find another term, e.g. Falklands war or Falklands
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conflict. We should also refer to the first Iraq war (1991) and the second
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Iraq war (2003).
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warn: "He warned that... " is wrong. The speaker must warn somebody or "give a
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warning that."
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Waterstone's
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wealthy: use rich.
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weather is enough: we do not need to say weather conditions.
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website and webmaster, but web page and web server.
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weekend.
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Weight Watchers
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welfare state
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Wellcome Trust, the world's leading medical research charity: not Welcome.
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West is capped for recognised regions and in political contexts but not as a
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point of the compass.
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whether: [see if.][28]
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whisky for Scotch whisky, whiskey for others. Do not refer to whisky as
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Scotch, always Scotch whisky.
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which and that: which informs that defines. This is the house that Jack built,
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but: This house, which Jack built is now falling down.
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Whitaker's Almanack
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Whiteread, Rachel
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White's club
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Whizkid
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who, whom: choice is dictated by the word's function within a clause. Do not
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be misled by the intrusion of phrases such as "he said" between the pronoun
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and the verb. "The reporter, who the editor said was mad, smiled" is correct.
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"Who" is the subject in the clause with the verb "was". "The reporter, whom
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the editor described as mad, smiled" is also correct. "Whom" is the object of
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the verb "described".
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Widdecombe, Ann
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Widow Twankey
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Wi-Fi is a tradename, with caps.
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wills: do not be misled by the gross total. The net figure is the one to use
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in heads like "MP leaves £250,000".
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wines: when writing about wine regions, do not use caps. So, write white
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burgundy, red bordeaux, pink champagne, cognac. However, when writing about
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geographical regions or places, then use caps as for all other proper names.
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Therefore write a visit to Burgundy, a hotel in Bordeaux, the villages of
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Champagne and the mayor of Cognac. Grape varieties are all lower case.
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Winslet, Kate
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Wirral: no the
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Wisden Cricketers' Almanack
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Woolf, Virginia and Leonard
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Woolworths
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world: avoid tired usages such as the fashion world, the theatre world.
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World Heritage Site
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World Trade Center
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World Wide Fund for Nature
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worth: millions of pounds' worth.
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Wreaked/wrought: the past tense of wreak is wreaked. Iron may be wrought (old
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past tense of work) or prose finely wrought, but havoc is wreaked.
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## [Style Book][34]
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* ### [News »][35]
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Composer, musician, poet and author whose writing provided a vivid commentary
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on the black American experience.
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