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# March 23 2009
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4:23PM GMT 23 Mar 2009
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Our presumption is against using caps. centre court, special forces and grand
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slam are a small selection of the phrases that have fallen foul of this rule
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recently. **Geographical features**, including man-made ones - bay, quay,
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bridge, harbour, river, delta - conform to this rule when part of something
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that may be a proper noun eg. Sydney harbour bridge
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**cliche** takes an accent
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AD1066. There should be a thin space between AD and the number.
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**The West Lothian question** is: why should the Member for West Lothian have
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a say in parliament in matters that affect only those in constituencies
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outside Scotland, when those in constituencies outside Scotland no longer have
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a say in matters that affect West Lothian?
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**Medvedev, Dmitrii**
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**Prone** means on your front, **supine** on your back.
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**Lembit Opik **does not get his umlaut, should the question arise.
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A **crest** is something above a shield on a coat of arms, not the coat of
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arms itself.
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**file sharing**, file-sharing software
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**nosey** takes an e
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police community support officer (**PCSO**) needs to be spelt out at first
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mention.
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**Army cadet troops**
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**virtually**. Be cautious with this word, especially in stories about
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technology.
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**East End**, **West End** of London.
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**young Turks** take a capital, even when those involved are not Turkish
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If someone is titled (Sir, Baroness etc) and their name begins a news story,
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there is no need also to cap up the name itself.
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**Falun Gong** is a spiritual movement emphasizing truthfulness, compassion
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and forbearance. It is not a religion - whatever the Chinese government calls
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it - and we should not refer to it as such.
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**Protestant** takes a cap even adjectivally.
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**Silk Road**
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**Mahdi army**
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**red list of threatened species** - a UN endeavour
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**dalek** is lower case
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**Sats** does not need to be followed by "tests" since it can mean either
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standard assessment tests, standard attainment tests or scholastic
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aptitude/assessment tests. The latter are the tests for college admission in
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the US. See Pin
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**Pin** can be short for Personal Identification Number. When this is the case
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it is not therefore followed by "number". If this fails to make sense of the
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sentence, write it out in full in square brackets.
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**Bishop's Stortford** takes an apostrophe.
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**Pilates** takes a capital, since it is named after Joseph Pilates, who
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developed it to improve the rehabilitation of soldiers during the First World
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War.
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a **Uyghur** (pronounced wee-ger) is someone most likely to be from the
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Xinjiang province of China, in the north-west of the country.
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**Frisbee** is a trademark
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**roll out**. This is jargon unless used literally. Use "introduce", "supply",
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or anything else appropriate instead.
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North **Ossetia** is a republic within the Russian Federation. South Ossetia
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is a breakaway republic in Georgia. Always distinguish between them, as you
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should between the North and South Ossetians.
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"**both**" is redundant in a news story nine times out of ten.
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**astronaut** is the American name for a person whom the Russians would call a
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cosmonaut and the Chinese a taikonaut.
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**Highlands** (of Scotland).
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the **Province**. Northern Ireland. The provinces can mean outside London; but
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"provincial" is faintly derogatory and should be used advisedly.
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**military** is an adjective, not a noun. Use Army, Navy or Royal Airforce
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wherever possible, referring to the British version of these. Lower case for
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foreign versions of the same.
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**slow food movement**
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**rendition** and extraordinary rendition, in the sense that a person has been
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whisked away secretly by the US, has fallen into common usage and does not
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need quotation marks.
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**culs-de-sac** is the preferred plural of cul-de-sac
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**Sevastopol** is in the Ukraine. There are five other places - two each in
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the US and Australia, one in Wales - that call themselves Sebastopol.
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**The Berkeley** hotel. **The Dorchester** hotel. Each is more commonly
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referred to only as The Berkeley or The Dorchester.
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**Dead Sea scrolls**
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the **Rose revolution**, the Orange revolution, the Russian revolution
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**bonfire night**, November the 5th.
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**earmarked**. Use designated instead.
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**Kiwi**, meaning New Zealander, takes a capital
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Admiral Lord **Nelson** at first mention; Nelson thereafter.
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_**The New York Times**_. Note the definite article.
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**Down's syndrome**, after John LH Down who first described it.
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**Jean Charles de Menezes** at first mention, de Menezes thereafter.
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**Axum** is in northern Ethiopia
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"**fuel poverty**" is the condition of having to spend ten per cent or more of
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one's income on fuel. It is therefore inevitably linked to the price of fuel
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and not to be used unless the claim is attributable.
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**Exhibition titles** should be italicised.
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"mother of two" "father of one" etc. This is often too much information in a
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news piece. Use without hyphens and only if relevant to the main thrust of the
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story.
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**University College London**. No comma.
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Terminals 1, 2 etc at Heathrow.
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**et cetera** is two words, if it needs to be written out.
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**cathedral**
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**Higgs boson particle**
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"**Ground Zero**" in reference to the former site of the twin towers of the
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World Trade Center in New York. Needs quotation marks as it has not been the
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only one of its kind.
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**Sir Tim Berners-Lee** did not invent the internet, and we should not say
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that he did. He invented hypertext, which made the world wide web possible in
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its present form. The internet has evolved as a result of the work of many
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people over many years.
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