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# Telegraph style book: Tt
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![Telegraph Style Book][1]
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Telegraph Style Book
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Telegraph Style Book
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10:32AM BST 12 Apr 2008
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**[A][2]** | **[B][3]** | **[C][4]** | **[D][5]** | **[E][6]** | **[F][7]** |
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**[G][8]** | **[H][9]** | **[I][10]** | **[J][11]** | **[K][12]** |
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**[L][13]** | **[M][14]** | **[N][15]** | **[O][16]** | **[P][17]** |
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**[Q][18]** | **[R][19]** | **[S][20]** | **[T][21]** | **[U][22]** |
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**[V][23]** | **[W][24]** | **[X][25]** | **[Y][26]** | **[Z][27]**
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* [Telegraph style book: introduction][28]
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T: have something down to a T.
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T-shirts
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tablespoonful(s)
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tad is banned.
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## Related Articles
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* [Introduction][28]
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10 Jan 2008
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Taittinger
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Taliban
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take, as in " a new take on…." is hackneyed.
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Taki Theodoracopulos
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target is not a verb.
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task is not a verb.
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taste: good manners rather than political correctness dictate that we should
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be sensitive in using certain words to describe afflictions. Words such as
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cripple, spastic or dumb must never be used. It is one thing to describe a
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public figure who does something idiotic as a nutter, quite another to use
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that term to describe someone who is mentally ill. Exercise your discretion at
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all times.
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Tautology: like pointless prepositions (qv) there are many examples, such as
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"potential risk" (all risk is) and "could potentially" (the adverb is
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redundant) and "pre-planned " and "pre-booked" (which speak for themselves).
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Always ponder whether your adverb is really necessary. A frequent mistake is
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"relatively small compared with" in which relatively is unnecessary.
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Tchaikovsky, Pyotr
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tea-bags
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teams: England have lost the Ashes is now the accepted idiomatic use; as it is
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that West Ham have been relegated. When talking about the single entity of a
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sports club, however, use the singular, as in "the club has today announced
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the appointment of its new chairman".
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Teasmade
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Technicolor
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teenage, teenager, not teenaged and never teen.
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Teesside
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Tehran
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telecoms is acceptable for headlines and in the business section; elsewhere it
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should be telecommunications
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Telegraph.co.uk
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telephone: thus, as a noun or a verb, though mobile phone is acceptable.
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telephone numbers: when giving a British telephone number follow this formula:
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(020) 7931 2000 and (01234) 123456.
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temperatures: give Fahrenheit figure followed by Celsius (now preferred to
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centigrade) in this style: 60F (16C). No point. No degree sign. Temperatures
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rise by 15 degrees; they do not get warmer by 15 degrees.
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Tennents: lager.
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tenses: avoid confusing these. Avoid captions such as "the Queen arrives at
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Heathrow yesterday".
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Teresa, Mother
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terrace: terrace house, not terraced.
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Terrence Higgins Trust
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terrestrial: not terrestial (no such word).
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terror is not a synonym for terrorism. The latter arouses the former
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Terry-Thomas had a hyphen.
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that: after verbs like "said" and "thought" the conjunction can be omitted
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unless "and that" is required in the second half of a sentence, in which case
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two "thats" are needed (The reporter said that the sub-editor was mad and
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that, if he cut his copy again, he would beat him).
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that/which: use which in clauses that add incidental, but not essential
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information; prefer that in restrictive or defining clauses. Note the
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difference between "the dog that I saw was black" and "the dog, which I saw,
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was black". The first refers specifically to a dog that I saw - distinct from
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a dog anyone else saw - being black. The second emphasises the fact that I saw
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a dog.
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the then: this usage as in "Lady Thatcher, the then prime minister" is to be
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avoided. Prefer "the prime minister at the time".
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The Times - two cap T's.
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think tank: often misused for research group, advisers or pressure group. Not
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purged by the use of quotation marks.
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Third World
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Thompson, Emma
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Tiananmen Square
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Tiffany's
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till is to be avoided except in quotations. Prefer until.
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toddler: aptly describes children from the age of about 15 months to three
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years.
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toilet: use only to describe the personal cleansing regime. The object is a
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lavatory.
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Toksvig, Sandi
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Tolkien, J R R
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ton is imperial; tonne is metric. Use the former, given our preference for
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imperial measurements, except in specific scientific stories. The two sizes
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are sufficiently close to avoid confusion.
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top: avoid using as an adjective in phrases such as "top judges" or "top
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jockeys".
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Topshop
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total is not a verb.
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Trade Descriptions Act
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trade names require caps and should be avoided as much as possible. Watch
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particularly for words that are not obviously trade names. This list contains
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only a few of the hundreds of trade names in regular use: Autogiro, Biro
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(ballpoint pen), Cashpoint, Caterpillar tractor (tracked tractor), Catseye
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(reflecting stud), Cellophane (transparent wrapping), Dictaphone (dictating
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machine), Formica (plastic top), Granary (bread), Hoover (vacuum cleaner),
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iPod, iPhone, Jeep (crosscountry vehicle, but jeep is used in references to
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the wartime vehicle). Perspex (acrylic sheet), Photostat (photo-copy),
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Plasticine (modelling material), Sellotape, Tabloid (for tablets; tabloid for
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a newspaper is acceptable), Tannoy (loudspeaker), Thermos (vacuum flask),
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Valium, Vaseline (petroleum jelly), Yale lock (cylinder-rim locks for other
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makes). Many words starting with tele- (but not telex) are trade names in
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communications. The Oxford dictionaries identify many words with the warning
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"P". There is also a government search engine for UK registered trade marks at
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[http://www.ipo.gov.uk/tm/t-find/t-find-text/][29]
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trade union, trade unions but Trades Union Congress.
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tragedy: grotesquely and inappropriately overused. If it is deployed to
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describe the unfortunate death of a person in a car crash, what word is to be
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used to describe a holocaust?
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train: comprises the locomotive and carriages or wagons.
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tranquillity: (double L) is our style.
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treasure trove: a coroner's court may declare that a find is treasure trove if
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it is held that the gold or silver was originally hidden with a view to being
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recovered later. In this case the finder may be compensated. If the treasure
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is deemed to have been lost accidentally, the finder can keep it.
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Tricolor is the French flag.
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Trooping the Colour (no of). It means parading the colour before the troops.
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Also Beating Retreat (no the).
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"trouble in paradise": a cliche that should never be used in stories or
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headlines about exotic places, Caribbean islands etc.
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try and is wrong: it is try to.
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tsar: not czar.
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Tutu, Archbishop Desmond
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Tussaud's, Madame
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TV: Only in headlines.
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Twentieth Century Fox
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twin-set
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twitchers/bird-watchers: "twitchers" are enthusiasts whose main interest is
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seeing as many rare species as possible. More traditional bird-watchers tend
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to be sedate and observe the birds and their habits.
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Tymoshenko, Yulia - Prime Minister of Ukraine
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* [Tweet][34]
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