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The Times Style Guide

A Practical Guide to English Usage

Ian Brunskill
While making clear that it is possible to accept changes in spoken and written English but still use it ‘at its best, clearest and most concise’, this volume sets out The Times’ preferences regarding elements including capitalization, hyphenation and variant spelling. Compiled as an A–Z, it also advises on terms that should be treated with caution and defines words that are easily confused.
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Product information:
  • Publisher: Times
  • Year: 2022
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288pp
  • Illustrated: No
  • Dimensions: 198x129mm
  • ISBN: 9780008412883
  • Condition: New
  • Weight: 0.2kg
Product code:
535370
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The official style guide followed by The Times and The Sunday Times.
Uncover the rules, conventions and policies on spelling, grammar and usage followed by the journalists, contributors and editors working on the Times and Sunday Times newspapers. Now updated with all the latest policy decisions.


Royal Family or royal family? Frontrunner or front-runner? Assure or ensure? Affect or effect? Even the most accomplished writer will run up against these and many similar problems in the quest for clear, elegant and grammatical writing.


The Times and Sunday Times editors answer these and hundreds of other usage conundrums with a comprehensive collection of entries covering the quirky minefield of the English language.


Although no literary straitjacket, this authoritative guide is the foundation of correct English usage for all Times and Sunday Times journalists and contributors and provides a benchmark style, the essential ingredient of all well-written English.
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