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# Telegraph style book: Ll
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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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Labour for the party, but labour movement, organised labour: however New
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Labour, old Labour.
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Ladies' Day at Royal Ascot.
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lady: use "woman" for most references to a female. But see [Names and
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Titles][28] for use of Lady.
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Lafite, claret.
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## Related Articles
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* [Introduction][27]
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10 Jan 2008
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lamp post
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landmark: do not use in the sense of a decision that marks an important change
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or precedent. All right for a prominent object on the horizon.
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Land Rover.
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lang, k d (thus)
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Langtry, Lillie
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last: the last edition of The Daily Telegraph implies we have closed. Use
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"most recent" or "latest". Also prefer "the past two years" to "the last two
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years".
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last night: tabloid, over used in news stories and to be avoided. Use only
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where absolutely literal: for example, "Big Ben struck thirteen at midnight
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last night because of a mechanical error" is fine. "It was disclosed last
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night that the Government is planning to slay the first born" is not, since
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the event probably happened during office hours. When something actually does
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happen just before edition time, that too may be acceptable in the interests
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of conveying urgency.
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Last Post (not the Last Post).
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late: phrases like "the late John Smith" are to be avoided. The context
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usually makes it plain that he is dead; if it does not, say when he died.
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Never "widow of the late John Smith". An exception is where a living person
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may be confused with the deceased, hence "the late Queen Elizabeth".
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Latin tags: use sparingly, and where there is no better English equivalent and
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where there is a reasonable chance the reader will know the sense: thus de
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jure and de facto are acceptable, de minimis non curat lex probably not.
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Always italicise.
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latitude and longitude: 48N, 17W or 48 deg north, 17 deg 12 min west.
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latter is the second of two. For the final of more than two, last.
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Laurence, Vice-Adml Tim, is the husband of the Princess Royal.
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lavatory is the correct term, never toilet.
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Law Lord: Lord of Appeal or other member of the House of Lords qualified to
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perform its legal work. Lord Justice of Appeal: usually a knight, does not sit
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in the House of Lords.
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lay, lie: "lay", meaning to deposit, arrange, beat down, and its past tense
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"laid" are transitive verbs needing an object (We decided to lay a floor; the
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hen laid an egg). Lie, meaning to recline or remain, and its derivatives lay
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and lain are intransitive (lie in the bed, the ship lay at anchor, the grass
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where she had lain was flattened). To use lie transitively to mean lay (lie
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her on the bed) is incorrect. To use lay intransitively to mean lie (it was
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laying on the floor) is also wrong.
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leakage is the amount lost by a leak. Do not put quotation marks round the
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word leak in references to news released unofficially.
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le Carre, John
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learnt is what one did with a lesson: learned describes an erudite person.
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lease of life: if you must use this cliche please use the correct English form
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and not the American "lease on life"
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Left, Right in politics. Left wing, Left-wingers. Such terminology is however
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becoming increasingly meaningless, so use sparingly and with explanation.
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left-field: done to death.
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legendary: unless you really are writing about King Arthur, avoid.
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Legge-Bourke, Tiggy
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legionnaires' disease: as in Black's Medical Dictionary.
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Lego
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Leibovitz, Annie
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Le Manoir aux Quat' Saisons
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Leonardo, never "da Vinci".
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less is not the comparative of few or small. Use fewer or smaller.
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Letters page style: all letters to the Editor should start Sir. Counties
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should not be abbreviated in addresses. Months should not be abbreviated in
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reference to previous correspondents. Titles should not be abbreviated.
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Levi's
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Liberal takes a capital letter only for political parties using the name and
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their members. Use lower case when explaining the attitudes of foreign parties
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of the relative position of people within them (The liberal Free Democrats...
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A liberal Democrat won his party's nomination). But there is a small Liberal
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Party in the United States.
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Liberal Democrats: use Lib Dems in heads, use in full on first mention in
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text, Lib Dems as a subsequent use is acceptable. Do not confuse with the
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Liberal Party, which still exists as a small and separate entity.
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_Liberation_, French newspaper: note accent.
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Licence: noun.
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License: verb.
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lifeboat, but Royal National Life-boat Institution.
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lifestyle: avoid. Use "way of life".
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like is used only to introduce a noun not followed by a verb (He drinks like a
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fish. He swims as a fish swims). When giving named examples of people or
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objects we should use "such as" as in: He said that he admired players such as
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Jones, Smith and Brown. The sense is that he admires those players
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specifically. If we used "like" it would mean that he admired players with
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qualities similar to those of Jones, Smith and Brown.
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likeable.
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Lili Marlene
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Lilliput
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limousine, limo are tabloid: write "car".
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linage for number of lines; lineage for ancestry.
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linchpin: person or thing essential to a plan or organisation. Not lynchpin.
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literally is nearly always redundant or ridiculous (Botham literally carried
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the rest of the England team).
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Lloyds TSB, Lloyd's (insurance). Lloyd's Register. Lloyd's is not an insurance
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company. It does not write insurance itself but provides a market in which its
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members do so.
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Lloyd Webber. The family name is unhyphenated, the peerage - Lloyd-Webber -
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is.
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loathe (hate) but loath (disinclined, unwilling).
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London postal districts are not preceded by a comma, hence "London SW1".
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Lords Lieutenant: not Lord Lieutenants. Certain reference books have this
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wrong, so beware.
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Lords Justices
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Lord's (cricket).
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lorry: prefer it to "truck". But if a motor company refers officially to a
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"trucks division" we should conform.
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lounges are found in hotels and pubs. In houses they are sitting rooms or
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drawing rooms.
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Lubyanka
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lunch not luncheon except in formal social contexts.
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Lurex
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Lutine bell
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luxury: as an adjective it is becoming tabloid, as in luxury flats. Avoid.
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Lycra
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Lyttelton Theatre.
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