Economist Style Guide - Redress Information & Analysis
Economist Style Guide - Redress Information & Analysis
Economist Style Guide - Redress Information & Analysis
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part 1: the essence of style<br />
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cannon (gun), canon<br />
(standard, criterion,<br />
clergyman)<br />
cappuccino<br />
carcass<br />
chancy<br />
channelling, channelled<br />
checking account (spell it<br />
thus when explaining<br />
to Americans a current<br />
account, which is to be<br />
preferred)<br />
choosy<br />
cipher<br />
clubable (coined, and spelled<br />
thus, by Dr Johnson)<br />
colour, colouring, colourist<br />
combating, combated<br />
commemorate<br />
connection<br />
consensus<br />
cooled, cooler, coolly<br />
coruscate<br />
cosseted, cosseting<br />
council, counsel (two<br />
different things; check<br />
sense)<br />
defendant<br />
dependant (person),<br />
dependent (adj)<br />
depository (unless referring<br />
to American depositary<br />
receipts)<br />
desiccate, desiccation<br />
detente (not détente)<br />
dexterous (not dextrous)<br />
disk (in a computer context),<br />
otherwise disc (including<br />
compact disc)<br />
dispatch (not despatch)<br />
dispel, dispelling<br />
distil, distiller<br />
divergences<br />
douse<br />
doveish<br />
dowse<br />
dryer, dryly<br />
dwelt<br />
dyeing (colour)<br />
dyke<br />
ecstasy<br />
embarrass (but harass)<br />
encyclopedia<br />
enroll, enrolment<br />
ensure (make certain), insure<br />
(against risks)<br />
enthrall<br />
extrovert<br />
farther (distance), further<br />
(additional)<br />
favour, favourable<br />
ferreted<br />
fetus (not foetus, misformed<br />
from the Latin fetus)<br />
fi eld-marshal (soldier),<br />
Marshall Field’s (Chicago<br />
department store)<br />
Filipino, Filipina (person),<br />
Philippine (adj of the<br />
Philippines)<br />
fi lleting, fi lleted<br />
focused, focusing<br />
forbear (abstain), forebear<br />
(ancestor)<br />
forbid, forbade<br />
foreboding<br />
foreclose<br />
forefather<br />
forestall<br />
forewarn<br />
forgather<br />
forgo (do without), forego<br />
(precede)<br />
forsake