Bryson•s Dictionary for Writers and Editors

Shake ’N Bake. American grocery product.
Shake ’N Bake / Shatt al-Arab � 309
Shakespearean, Shakespearian. The first is the usual spelling in America
and the second is the usual spelling in Britain, but, interestingly,
don’t look to The Oxford English Dictionary for guidance
on any spellings concerning England’s greatest poet. Perversely
and charmingly, but entirely unhelpfully, the OED insists on
spelling the name Shakspere, a decision it based on one of the six
spellings Shakespeare himself used. It does, however, acknowledge
that Shakespeare is “perhaps” the commonest spelling now
used.
shaky (not -ey), shakiness.
shallot. A plant related to the onion.
“Shalott, The Lady of.” Not Shallot. 1832 poem by Tennyson.
Shamir, Yitzhak. (1915–) Prime minister of Israel (1983–1984, 1988–
1992); born Yitzhak Jazernicki.
Shandong. Chinese province; capital Jinan. Formerly spelled Shantung.
Shangri-La, not -la, for the Himalayan paradise created by James
Hilton in the 1933 novel Lost Horizon.
Shankill Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Not -hill.
shank’s mare or pony. To travel on foot.
Shanxi. Chinese province; capital Taiyuan.
SHAPE. Abbreviation of Supreme Headquarters, Allied Powers, Europe.
Sharapova, Maria. (1987–) Russian tennis player.
Shariah (or Shari’ah). Koranic law.
shar-pei. Breed of dog.
Sharpeville Massacre. Fatal shooting of sixty-seven black South
African demonstrators by police at black township of Sharpeville,
near Johannesburg, on March 21, 1960.
Shatt al-Arab. River that forms section of border between Iran and
Iraq.