Economist Style Guide - Redress Information & Analysis

effectively, in effect Effectively means with effect; if you mean in effect,
say it. The matter was effectively dealt with on Friday means it was
done well on Friday. The matter was, in effect, dealt with on Friday
means it was more or less attended to on Friday. Effectively leaderless
would do as a description of the demonstrators in East Germany
in 1989 but not those in Tiananmen Square, also in 1989. The
devaluation of the Slovak currency in 1993, described by some as
an effective 8%, turned out to be a rather ineffective 8%.
either … or see none.
elections see grammar and syntax.
effectively, in effect > eponymous
enclave, exclave An enclave is a piece of territory or territorial water
entirely surrounded by foreign territory (Ceuta, Kaliningrad,
Melilla, Nagorno-Karabakh, Nakhichevan). An exclave is the same
thing, viewed differently, if, and only if, it belongs to another
country (so Andorra and San Marino are not exclaves).
enormity means a crime, sin or monstrous wickedness. It does not
mean immensity.
environment is often unavoidable, but it’s not a pretty word.
Avoid the business environment, the school environment, the work
environment, etc. Try to rephrase the sentence – conditions for
business, at school, at work, etc. Surroundings can sometimes do the
job.
epicentre means that point on the earth’s surface above the centre of an
earthquake. To say that Mr Putin was at the epicentre of the dispute
suggests that the argument took place underground.
The hypocentre, incidentally, is the place on the surface of the
earth below an explosion (which at Hiroshima in 1945, for example,
was 580 metres above the ground). It is the same as ground zero.
eponymous is the adjective of eponym, which is the person or thing
after which something is named. So George Canning was the
eponymous hero of the Canning Club, Hellen was the eponymous
ancestor of the Hellenes (Greeks), Ninus was the eponymous
founder of Nineveh. Do not say John Sainsbury, the founder of the
eponymous supermarket. Rather he was the eponymous founder of
J. Sainsbury’s.
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