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