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Russia With Love”, “The Man Who Planted Trees”, “Up Close and Personal” and “The Way of the Warrior”. Also employed are “the Iceman Cometh”, “Measure for Measure”, “The Tyger” and “War and Peace” – to say nothing of the old stalwart, “Howard’s Way”. Is this a competition, or do your sub-editors need to get out more? Tom Braithwaite, London See also clichés, journalese and slang. health care The American system of health care (adjective, health-care) for the poor is Medicaid, and for the elderly is Medicare. Canada’s national health-care system is also called Medicare. healthy If you think something is desirable or good, say so. Do not call it healthy. heresy see apostasy. headings and captions > homosexual hoards, hordes Few secreted treasures (hoards) are multitudes on the move (hordes). Hobson’s choice is not the lesser of two evils; it is no choice at all. holistic properly refers to a theory developed by Jan Smuts, who argued that, through creative evolution, nature tended to form wholes greater than the sum of the parts. homeland Although it is now used as a synonym for your domestic territory, your homeland is your native land, your motherland or even your fatherland. homogeneous, homogenous Homogeneous means of the same kind or nature. Homogenous means similar because of common descent. homosexual Since this word comes from the Greek word homos (same), not the Latin word homo (man), it applies as much to women as to men. It is therefore as daft to write homosexuals and lesbians as to write people and women. 69
part 1: the essence of style hopefully By all means begin an article hopefully, but never write: Hopefully, it will be fi nished by Wednesday. Try with luck, if all goes well, it is hoped that... horrible words Words that are horrible to one writer may not be horrible to another, but if you are a writer for whom no words are horrible, you would do well to take up some other activity. No words or phrases should be banned outright from appearing in print, but if you use any of the following you should be aware that they may have an emetic effect on some of your readers. See also clichés. hyphens There is no fi rm rule to help you decide which words are run together, hyphenated or left separate. If in doubt, consult a dictionary. Do not overdo the literary device of hyphenating words that are not usually linked: the stringing-together-of-lots-and-lots-ofwords-and-ideas tendency can be tiresome. 70 carer – and most caring expressions chattering classes facilitate famously governance grow the business guesstimate informed (as in his love of language informed his memos) likely (meaning probably, rather than probable) 1 Words with common or short prefi xes In general, try to avoid putting hyphens into words formed of one word and a short prefi x. asexual biplane declassify disfranchise geopolitical neoclassicism neoconservative but neo-cons neoliberal neolithic neologism neonatal overdone overeducated precondition predate looking to (meaning intending to) matériel ongoing poster child prestigious proactive rack up (profi ts, etc) savvy segue source (meaning obtain) stakeholder preoccupied preordained prepay realign rearm rearrange reborn redirect
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Contents Preface vi Introduction 1
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part 1 the essence of style
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short words Use them. They are ofte
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part 2 American and British English
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punctuation commas in lists The use
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1990 Chemistry Elias James Corey Ec
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Physics Zhores I. Alferov, Jack S.
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organisations OPEC Organization of
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proofreading illustrations, the pro
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INSTRUCTION TEXTUAL MARK MARGINAL M
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sources for references 186-8 spacec
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