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# Telegraph style book: Mm
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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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Maasai, not Masai
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Maastricht treaty, thus.
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mad cow disease: all l/c. (See legionnaires' disease).
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Madama Butterfly is what Puccini wrote.
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## Related Articles
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* [Introduction][28]
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10 Jan 2008
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Madison Square Garden, singular.
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madrassah.
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Magna Carta was sealed, not signed.
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maharaja.
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Magdalen College Oxford: Magdalene College Cambridge.
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maitre d', maitres d': note accent.
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major: usually means no more than "big".
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majority/minority take a plural verb. See number.
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Malkovich, John
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Maltesers
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Man Booker Prize for Fiction, the
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mansion: tabloid. Its use by us can only be satirical.
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mantel (shelf). Mantle is a cape.
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Marks & Spencer
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marry: do not use wed.
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marshal always has one l, whether a verb, noun or a title.
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Martini & Rossi is a trade name. References specifically to their vermouth
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should be capped, the cocktail, which they did not invent, is simply a martini
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(three parts gin or vodka to one part dry vermouth, olive and a twist of
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lemon).
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Martin?, Bohuslav:
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Mary Celeste
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Mass (cap "M") but high Mass etc etc.
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massacre requires many dead, not merely a handful.
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masterful (overwhelming), masterly (skilled).
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Mathews, Meg
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MaxMara
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May balls happen in June, at Cambridge.
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mayor: John Smith, Mayor of Somevill but later the mayor (lower case).
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Mbeki, Thabo
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Macaulay, Sarah: Mrs Gordon Brown.
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Macavity
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Macbeth
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MacKenzie, Kelvin
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Mackintosh, Sir Cameron
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MacLaine, Shirley
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Maclean, Donald
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Maclean, Alistair
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Macleod, Iain
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Macmillan, Harold
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Macpherson, Elle
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Macpherson Report on Stephen Lawrence.
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McCain, John
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McCartney, Sir Paul. His second wife is never "Lady Heather".
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McDonald's
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McDonald, Sir Trevor
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McGregor, Ewan
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McGuinness, Martin
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McKellen, Sir Ian
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McLaren, racing team.
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McQueen, Alexander
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Meat Loaf
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Mecca: given this is Mohammed's birthplace, to describe somewhere like a
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nightclub as "a mecca for young people" risks causing grave offence to our
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Muslim readers.
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medals: The Victoria Cross is the highest military honour for bravery. The
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civilian equivalent is the George Cross, which is followed by the George
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Medal.
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media is a plural word which should be used only when newspapers, radio,
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television, press, broadcasting organisations and other precise terms are
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inaccurate or consume too much space in, say, an intro.
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Medicins Sans Frontieres
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medieval.
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Medvedev, Dmitry
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meet with is an abomination. See pointless prepositions.
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Merchant Navy is capped in titles only, otherwise lower case.
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merge with something, not into it.
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Merkel, Angela
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Messiah: Handel's oratorio does not take the handle "the".
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meteoric rise: As well as being over-used, this is a bit silly when you
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consider what meteors do, i.e. hurtle towards Earth.
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metrication: not metrification.
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Michaeljohn: smart hairdresser.
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Michelangelo
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Mickey Mouse
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micro light: not microlite.
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Middle East: Mideast only in headlines (See Places and Peoples). Middle West
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or Midwest.
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mileage
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militate is not to be confused with mitigate: the former means actively to
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counter something, the latter to moderate or make something less severe.
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Millennium
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million: In the business pages abbreviate to m, elsewhere in the paper always
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write out in full.
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minuscule is to be spelt correctly on the rare occasions when we need to refer
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to an early cursive script or small type, and on the rarer occasions when it
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can properly be used instead of small, tiny or minute.
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Milosevic, Slobodan
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miracles: biblical use only.
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miss: the plural of this honorific is misses. So it is the Misses Smith, not
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the Miss Smiths.
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Mitterrand, François
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mixed metaphors: be alert for these, such as "fuelling a backlash".
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Mobutu, Sese Seko
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moderator (of a church) takes a capital in titles but later is lower case.
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mogul for Indian and other (e.g. film) references, otherwise Mongol. money:
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see Numbers file. For decimal denominations, place the point at the bottom,
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i.e. £14.95.
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Moet et Chandon
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Mohammed is the Prophet, and use in all other contexts unless a variant is
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established in a personal name.
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Mongol, in references to children suffering from Down's syndrome, offends.
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Monroe, Marilyn
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Moorfields
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more than: much preferred to "over", so avoid "over 60 people".
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morphed: never except in a strictly technical sense as a computer-generated
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special effect. Use "metamorphosed" in all other contexts.
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Morrissey, Neil
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mortgagee is the institution from which a mortgage is obtained: the person who
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takes it out is the mortgagor.
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Mosimann, Anton
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mother of parliaments: never use to describe the parliament at Westminster.
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The phrase from which this much-misquoted line is taken is "England is the
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mother of parliaments".
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motorcycle, motorcyclist.
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MRSA: if this has to be written out in full it is methicillin resistant
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Staphylococcus aureus.
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MS and MSS for manuscript and manuscripts.
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Mubarak, Hosni: President of Egypt
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Muhammad Ali
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Mujahideen
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multiculturalism
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multiples: say "three times as many", not "three times more than". Never say
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"three times less than": you mean "one third of".
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mum and dad are banned: mother and father is the right tone.
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Murdoch, Elisabeth
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Musharraf, Pervez, is now a President, not a General.
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Muslim, not Moslem.
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mutual, meaning common to two or more parties (Our Mutual Friend) should not
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be used unless the word common would be misleading or ambiguous.
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Myriad, originally the Greek word for 10,000, requires no of: i.e., there are
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myriad people.
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[What are these?][30]
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* Share: [Share][29] [ ][31] [ ][32]
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[Tweet][33]
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## [Style Book][34]
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* ### [News »][35]
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[What are these?][30]
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Share:
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* [ ][29]
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* [ ][32]
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* [Tweet][33]
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* Advertisement
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[EDITOR'S CHOICE »][37]
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### [Gil Scott-Heron: 'A voice for Shakespeare'][38]
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[![Gil Scott-Heron][39]][38]
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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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### [Beekeeping diary: the new colonies arrive][40]
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### [Spectacular light show dazzles Sydney][41]
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### [WS Gilbert: a knight for our times][42]
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### [The Telegraph's Matt is Hay Festival star][43]
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Advertisement
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Classified Advertising
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