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# Telegraph style book: Ii
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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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ICBM: intercontinental ballistic missile. Always be precise in describing the
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nature of particular missiles. Long-range and similar terms are not enough.
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ice cream (no hyphen).
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Ideal Home show: not Homes.
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ideologue.
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## Related Articles
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* [Introduction][27]
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10 Jan 2008
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i.e.: Use, with points, only when it cannot be avoided. It means "that is" and
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often introduces a long description of something that should have been
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explained properly in the first case.
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if and whether: use the latter if or clause makes sense with "or not" on the
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end of it. So one would write "he will celebrate if he passes his exams" but
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"he doesn't know whether he will pass his exams", not "if he will pass".
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ilk: only in Scottish titles.
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Immaculate Conception requires caps, and must only be used in the accurate
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context: to describe the belief that the Virgin Mary was from her conception
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without taint of sin.
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impact: effect is nearly always better. Use impact in a physical sense. Impact
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is a noun and not a verb. Avoid constructions such as "it impacted upon" and
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say instead "it made an impact upon".
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imply/infer: he implied that I was lazy; I inferred that he thought that I was
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lazy.
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impostor.
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impractical is a relatively modern usage. It is better to say unpractical, or
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impracticable.
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impresario
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imprisoned: say jailed.
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inamorata is a woman: a male lover is an inamorato.
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incomparable adjectives: think of the logic before making a comparative or
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superlative of any adjective (see full above). Such words describing absolute
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conditions as empty, dead, lost and absolute cannot logically compare.
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indexes not indices (except in mathematics or science).
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Indian place names: by the same token that we do not write about Firenze, Wien
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or Munchen - but Florence, Vienna and Munich - so we write Bombay, Madras and
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Calcutta rather than Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkota.
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industrial action: prefer strike, overtime ban, work-to-rule. If such
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precision is impossible, use disruptive action or protest action.
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inevitable should not be used when you mean customary: avoid such usages as
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"Mr Smith smoked his inevitable cigar".
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infamous: avoid.
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ingrained, not engrained
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initials: full points to be used in by-lines where the writer uses initials
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rather than a first name (J. D. Smith)
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inquire/enquire: our style is inquire, inquiry.
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insofar as
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instill
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institute/institution: always check which word is used in the title of an
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organisation with which you are not familiar.
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interaction of, not between.
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Inter Governmental Conference: caps no hyphens.
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internet (lc "i").
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intifada
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into: "in" is not an acceptable substitute (He fell into the river and swam in
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it). Never use "into" for an enthusiasm as in "he is into rock music".
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-ise, -isation not -ize, -ization.
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iPod, iPhone: thus, see [trade names][28].
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IRA: do not, outside quotes, use the term "active service unit" for a group of
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terrorists from this organisation or any other with a similar modus operandi.
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Islamophobia
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italics: use sparingly. Italicise titles of films, books, television shows,
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plays and paintings, and foreign words that are not current in English where
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sense demands they are used. Poems should be in quotation marks but
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collections of poems, being books, should be italicised. Songs should be
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italicised; the names of symphonies should be in Roman except where the
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symphony has a subsidiary title: for example, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, but
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Vaughan Williams's Second Symphony (the London). The titles of all
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publications, including The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph, should
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be italicised. Websites should not be italicised but their status as websites
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made clear by the use of their domain name: Telegraph.co.uk, Google.com.
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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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Share:
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* [ ][32]
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* [Tweet][33]
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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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