Economist Style Guide - Redress Information & Analysis
Economist Style Guide - Redress Information & Analysis
Economist Style Guide - Redress Information & Analysis
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forswear, forsworn<br />
fuelled<br />
-ful, not -full (thus armful,<br />
bathful, handful, etc)<br />
fulfi l, fulfi lling<br />
fullness<br />
fulsome<br />
funnelling, funnelled<br />
furore<br />
gelatine<br />
glamour, glamorous<br />
gram (not gramme)<br />
guerrilla<br />
Gurkha<br />
gypsy<br />
haj<br />
hallo (not hello)<br />
harass (but embarrass)<br />
hiccup (not hiccough)<br />
honour, honourable<br />
hotch-potch<br />
humour, humorist,<br />
humorous<br />
hurrah (not hooray)<br />
idiosyncrasy<br />
impostor<br />
incur, incurring<br />
inquire, inquiry (not enquire,<br />
enquiry)<br />
install, instalment,<br />
installation<br />
instil, instilling<br />
intransigent<br />
jail (not gaol)<br />
jewellery (not jewelry)<br />
jihad<br />
judgment<br />
kilogram or kilo (not<br />
kilogramme)<br />
labelling, labelled<br />
laissez-faire<br />
lama (priest), llama (beast)<br />
spelling<br />
lambast (not lambaste)<br />
leukaemia<br />
levelled<br />
libelling, libelled<br />
licence (noun), license (verb)<br />
linchpin, lynch law<br />
liquefy<br />
literal<br />
littoral (shore)<br />
loth (reluctant), loathe (hate),<br />
loathsome<br />
low-tech<br />
manilla envelope, but<br />
Manila, capital of the<br />
Philippines<br />
manoeuvre, manoeuvring<br />
marshal (noun and verb),<br />
marshalled<br />
medieval<br />
mêlée<br />
meter (a measuring tool),<br />
metre (metric measure,<br />
meter in American)<br />
mileage<br />
millennium, but millenarian<br />
minuscule<br />
modelling, modelled<br />
mould<br />
Muslim (not Moslem)<br />
naivety<br />
’Ndrangheta<br />
nonplussed<br />
nought (for numerals),<br />
otherwise naught<br />
obbligato<br />
optics (optician,<br />
etc) ophthalmic<br />
(ophthalmology, etc)<br />
paediatric, paediatrician<br />
panel, panelled<br />
parallel, paralleled<br />
pastime<br />
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