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# Telegraph style book: Hh
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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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* [Telegraph style book: introduction][27]
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hang: people are hanged but pictures are hung.
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H-bomb: but nuclear weapon is often the better term. Habsburg not Hapsburg.
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Hague, Ffion
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Haider, Jorg
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## Related Articles
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* [Introduction][27]
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10 Jan 2008
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hairdryer, not drier.
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Hallowe'en: with the apostrophe.
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Hallyday, Johnny: French chanteur.
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Hamleys: no apostrophe
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Hammarskjold, Dag
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Hamnett, Katharine
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handout is not a synonym for benefit. It is also tabloid. Use with extreme
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care.
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handover: no hyphen.
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Hannah, Daryl
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harass
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hardliner: be very selective in its use.
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hard-pressed is becoming cliched and ubiquitous. Use only if all else fails.
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hare-brained, not hair
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Harley-Davidson
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Harman, Harriet: Miss. Her married name is Mrs Dromey.
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HarperCollins: one word.
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Harper's Bazaar
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Harpers & Queen
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Harrods: no apostrophe.
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Harvey Nichols
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hawks and doves: this is becoming a cliche, so use sparingly in descriptions
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of the relative levels of aggression or conciliation between two factions. Do
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not use when referring to terrorist groups to try to distinguish between
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different degrees of ruthlessness.
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head-butt: tautological. Use butt.
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headmaster, headmistress: lower case; some schools (such as St Paul's) have
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high masters. Eton has a Head Master. Radley has a Warden and Wellington a
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Master. Never call the headmaster of a boys' public school the head teacher:
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this term should only be used about mixed-sex schools that might be as likely
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to appoint a headmistress as a headmaster.
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health care, not healthcare.
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heartbreak: tabloid, avoid.
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heart failure, heart condition: every heart has some condition and heart
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failure is often a sign of death, not its cause.
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heart-rending, not heart-wrenching.
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Heathcliff
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Hello! magazine
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Helmand
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hero: should not be used except in cases where it is demonstrably correct, as
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with winners of the VC or GC. Its use in lesser contexts debases it.
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hiccup: not hiccough.
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Hi-De-Hi!
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High Church
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High Commissions, High Commissioners: the equivalent of embassies and
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ambassadors within the Commonwealth. They are capitalised according to the
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same rules.
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high street as an adjective is often redundant: shops, banks and other emporia
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to which it is applied are rarely found in the middle of fields.
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hijack: the seizure of any vehicle - land, sea or air - without lawful reason.
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The original meaning of criminals stealing from criminals is too restrictive.
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Skyjacking may still be used.
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hike: a long walk, not a rise in prices.
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Hindi (language), Hindu (religion), Hindustani was a pidgin Hindi used by
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British soldiers in India.
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Hinkley Point: no "c".
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history: phrases such as "history was made last night" are to be avoided,
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because in one sense history is being made every night, and in others it is
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hardly ever being made at all.
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hi-tech
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Hizbollah: not Hezbollah.
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hoard is a store of food or treasure: horde is a multitude.
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Hobson's Choice is not the lesser of two evils. It is not a choice at all.
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hoi polloi: the people. Hoi is the definite article, so don't say "the"
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hold-up for delays or crimes, but hold up as verb.
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Holiday, Billie
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Holocaust: cap up when used to describe the Nazi genocide. Lower case in other
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uses, but ensure you use it legitimately to describe mass destruction.
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Holy Communion takes caps.
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home owner, not homeowner.
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homoeopathy, thus. Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital, but Homeopathic Trust
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and Faculty of Homeopathy.
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homogeneous: having the same constituent elements throughout, used for people,
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communities etc that have homogeneity. Do not confuse with: homogenous, which
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is a form of milk.
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homophobic: avoid unless you are talking about those who fear something that
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is the same as them.
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homosexual is an adjective, not a noun.
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Hooray Henrys
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hopefully: another ignorant Americanism. Do not misuse for "it is hoped that".
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Its correct use in English is as an adverb: "to travel hopefully".
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horrify: use only literally, and therefore sparingly.
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Horse Guards Parade
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horse riding: just say "riding".
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horsy
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hosepipe
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hospitalised is a vile Americanism: use "taken (or admitted) to hospital".
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hospital trust names: at first use cap up as follows - St George's Healthcare
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NHS Trust, then subsequently the trust. St Bartholomew's Hospital and The
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Royal London Hospital are both run by Barts and The London NHS Trust: the The
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must be capped.
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hosting: see staging
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Howards End
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Howerd, Frankie
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HRH/HM as the abbreviations for His/Her Royal Highness and His/Her Majesty are
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styles, not titles. Of living British royalty, only the Queen is HM.
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huge is banned.
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humble: do not use it in coy phrases such as "the humble sixpence". If an
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object is so mundane or prosaic as to call the concept to mind, the adjective
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is redundant. It's perfectly all right when properly describing a person's
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demeanour.
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hummus
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Humphrys, John
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huntsman: each hunt has one, usually a paid hunt servant. Other people who
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hunt with the aid of hounds (never dogs) are members of the hunt or the field.
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Shooting is not classed as hunting. Use wildfowling, rough shooting, game
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shooting, stalking, etc as appropriate.
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Hyannisport
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hyperthermia: condition of having body-temperature much above normal.
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hypothermia: condition of having body-temperature much below normal.
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hyphens. Compound words increasingly lose their hyphens as they are accepted
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as normal usage, and reference to a newly edited dictionary is often
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necessary. With most prefixes and suffixes the compound is written as a single
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word, but ex-, neo-, non-, pro- and self- usually need hyphens, but note
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selfsame and unselfconscious. Co- meaning fellow, as in co-driver, takes the
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hyphen.
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Hyphens are also used to mark the difference between similar words (reform,
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re-form), to separate identical vowels (pre-empt, co-operate, but
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uncooperative), before stems beginning with a capital letter (pro-British) and
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with -like when it follows words ending in -l (eel-like) or words of more than
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one syllable (reporter-like). The suffix -less needs the hyphen after stems
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ending with - ll (hill-less).
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Hyphens are normally used in compound adjectives formed from a noun and a
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participle (cloud-filled sky) or from an adverb and a verb (well-written
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prose). But do not use the hyphen after adverbs ending in -ly (newly married
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couple), and note that adverbs and verbs used after nouns remain separate (a
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well-oiled machine, but the machine was well oiled). Note that a man earns
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£17,000 a year and so has a £17,000-a-year job. Hyphens are to be avoided in
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sporting terms: wicketkeeper, scrum half etc.
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Use hyphens with care to avoid confusion or unwanted hilarity. Use "small-
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business men" to make it clear that they are not diminutive traders.
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Note motor-cycle, motorcyclist, machinegun, sub-machinegun.
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Avoid dangling hyphens (his two- and four- year-old children).
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Fractions are not hyphenated: e.g. two thirds of all acrobats, three quarters
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etc; except when adjectival, as in a two-thirds majority.
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No hyphens in Latin: in vitro fertilisation, post mortem examination (Oxford
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dictionary for writers and editors is inconsistent on this, so ignore).
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