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about-us
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style-book
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# Telegraph style book: Nn
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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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| **[M][13]** | **[N][14]** | **[O][15]** | **[P][16]** | **[Q][17]** |
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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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Nafta: North American Free Trade Agreement.
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Nasa
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national anthems: lower case for the expression but caps for the titles of
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principal words in the title (The British national anthem is God Save the
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Queen).
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national curriculum: lc
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## Related Articles
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* [Introduction][27]
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10 Jan 2008
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National Farmers' Union
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National Lottery is now Lotto.
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National Trust: a gift to the NT is not strictly a gift a to the nation, so
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should not be described as such.
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nationalists: cap only in references to parties which use the word in their
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titles and to their members. The Scottish National party has nationalist views
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and Scottish Nationalist candidates. Lower-case loyalists and republicans.
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natives (for inhabitants) can offend.
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nativity for the birth of Jesus.
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Nato
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NatWest: main bank or subsidiary (National Westminster Bank at first mention).
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nearby in all uses.
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negro, negress: do not use except in a clearly-explained historical context.
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Neil, Andrew
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Neo-con is becoming rather tired. Use it only if you are going to show what it
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means.
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Neptune/Pluto: Neptune is temporarily the Sun's most distant planet. Pluto's
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eccentric orbit has brought it closer than Neptune. Pluto will return to its
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usual, more distant orbit in the year 2113.
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nerve-racking.
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Network Rail: owns and operates all Britain's rail infrastructure.
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nevertheless
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new: appears more frequently than it should. It is needed sometimes but most
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readers would like to think that the plans, policies, inquiries we are telling
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them about are by definition new.
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Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle-under-Lyme
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New College, Oxford: do not omit college.
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newspaper: always thus, never just "paper".
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newspaper proprietors: all references MUST be cleared with the editor or
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acting editor before appearing in the paper.
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Newspaper Publishers Association: No apostrophe.
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newspaper quotations: when reporting what foreign publications say, always
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indicate their political affiliations and how much authority they carry.
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newspaper titles: are italicised and take the article if it is in their own
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masthead: i.e. _The Guardian_, _The Times_, _The Daily Telegraph_, _The
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Express_ etc but... _Daily Mail_, _Evening Standard_. Cap the "L" in the
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definite article in French titles (_Le Monde_); do not use "the" before the
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titles of foreign newspapers that include an article in their name (_Die
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Welt_). The suffixes -et or -en in Scandinavian titles are equivalent to
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"the".
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New Year: caps for the festival (New Year's Day, New Year's Eve) but lower
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case for new year meaning the period about to begin.
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Nicholson, Jack, but Nicolson, Harold, Nigel, Adam and Rebecca.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four: the novel.
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nitrobenzene: not -ine.
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No: No 10 Downing Street, No 10: avoid elsewhere.
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nom de plume is bad French. They would say nom de guerre.
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none must be followed by a singular verb and singular pronoun: none of them
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was admitted to the room. None of them concede that they made mistakes is
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wrong, but such forms are used to avoid the clumsy "he or she". It can also be
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avoided by writing "none of them concedes that mistakes were made".
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none the less
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no one
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notwithstanding
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now: use only to draw the distinction between past/future and present,
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otherwise the word is redundant.
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number is always plural, despite being a singular noun: one would not say "a
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number of us is going to the pub". The same logic applies to other nouns
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describing a plurality, such as majority and minority: "a minority of doctors
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are alcoholics".
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numbers: Except in the Business pages, the numbers one to nine are spelt out,
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after that they are given as numerals.
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numskull: no b
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## [Style Book][33]
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