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The Economist Style Guide by The Economist

d6y's review

5.0

Useful. This is mostly a reference-style guide to specific word usage. The text is also available on the economist web site for free.

nwhyte's review

http://nhw.livejournal.com/681975.html[return][return]Mandatory reading for those of us doing editing for a living, of course. Full of useful snippets and helpful hints, though I dare to disagree on a few points:[return][return]Dominicans Take care. Do they come from Dominica? Or the Dominican Republic? Or are they friars?[return][return]*Snerk!*[return][return]federalist in Britain, someone who believes in centralising the powers of associated states; in the United States and Europe, someone who believes in decentralising them.[return][return]Perhaps that one was a bit more tongue-in-cheek.[return][return][return]Abbreviations that can be pronounced and are composed of bits of words rather than just initials should be spelt out in upper and lower case[return][return]Agreed, but their examples include "Kfor" and "Sfor" which I would always spell KFOR and SFOR, since that is and was the capitalisation preferred by the peacekeepers themselves.[return][return][return]Put the accents and cedillas on French names and words, umlauts on German ones, accents and tildes on Spanish ones, and accents, cedillas and tildes on Portuguese ones: Fran

alexiconic's review

funny informative

4.0