The New York Times Manual of Style and UsageIs the deejay a wannabe? Or does the D.J. just want to be? When is heaven capitalized? Do you stand in line or on line? For anyone who writes—short stories or business plans, book reports or news articles—knotty choices of spelling, grammar, punctuation, and meaning lurk in every line: Lay or lie? Who or whom? None is or none are? Is Touch-Tone a trademark? How about Day-Glo? It’s enough to send you in search of a Martini. (Or is that a martini?) Now everyone can find answers to these and thousands of other questions in the handy alphabetical guide used by the writers and editors of the world’s most authoritative newspaper. The guidelines to hyphenation, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling are crisp and compact, created for instant reference in the rush of daily deadlines. This revised and expanded edition is updated with solutions to the tantalizing problems that plague writers in the new century: * How to express the equality of the sexes without using self-conscious devices like “he or she.” * How to choose thoughtfully between African-American and black; Hispanic and Latino; American Indian and Native American. * How to translate the vocabulary of e-mail and cyberspace and cope with the eccentricities of Internet company names and website addresses. With wry wit, the authors, who have more than seventy-five years of combined newsroom experience at the New York Times, have created an essential and entertaining reference tool. |
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Contents
Section 1 | 3 |
Section 2 | 35 |
Section 3 | 55 |
Section 4 | 95 |
Section 5 | 114 |
Section 6 | 127 |
Section 7 | 141 |
Section 8 | 152 |
Section 12 | 219 |
Section 13 | 241 |
Section 14 | 250 |
Section 15 | 276 |
Section 16 | 280 |
Section 17 | 296 |
Section 18 | 325 |
Section 19 | 342 |
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The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage Allan M. Siegal,William G. Connolly No preview available - 1999 |
Common terms and phrases
abbreviation acceptable adjective Air Force American appear apply Association avoid base begins bishop building called Capitalize century charts chief Church City clear College comma Company compounds formed contexts copy Corporation County Court dateline designations direct quotations editor equal example exception expression federal figures first first reference follow foreign given head headlines hyphenated Island known Lamb later references less letters listed Lowercase major means military million modifier never Note noun numbers officer omit ordinarily organization party period person phrase plural police precedes president proper quotation marks readers region reporting Roman round sense sentence separate sergeant Service singular space specific spelling stand Street style tables term towns trademark Union United University unless usually verb West women word World write York
Bibliographic information
| Title | The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage |
| Editors | Allan M. Siegal, William G. Connolly |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Three Rivers Press, 1999 |
| ISBN | 081296389X, 9780812963892 |
| Length | 368 pages |
| Subjects | › Language Arts & Disciplines / Composition & Creative Writing Language Arts & Disciplines / Editing & Proofreading Reference / Handbooks & Manuals Reference / Writing Skills |
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