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India, and so forth. People in those places just buy the British ones (often not printed in the UK; they're reprinted in India, etc., under contract, to avoid the shipping expense). In formal writing, there is no difference between Barbadian, Hong Kong, Singaporean, or Ghanan English; they're all British English, aside from some loanwords borrowed from local languages (just as in Welsh, Scottish, Cornish, and Northern Irish English within the UK itself). Some English varieties, like those of Liberia, the Philippines, and Okinawa, are based on (and in formal writing follow the norms of) American English, not British.
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for what that entity's own subjective preferences are for its internal memos and external marketing. Be careful when doing style research; it is easy to mistake something like the "University of Foobar Style Guide" for a work intended as public advice when it is really nothing but the opinion of the
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Our articles, like our MoS, should steer well clear of subjective pronouncements about what is "proper", "incorrect", "standard", etc. – even when some of our sources wander into that territory. Beware also claims about "American English", "British English", etc. made by style guide authors who are
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Monographs (and two-author variants of the format) range from primary to tertiary sources, and must be used carefully and accordingly; by default, treat them as primary. The writing-advice volumes are almost entirely primary, while usage dictionaries are mostly tertiary but frequently peppered with
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A similar case is the submission requirements style sheets of individual journals and particular journal publishers. These reflect a single company or organization's viewpoint (or simply expediently made decisions), not an industry- or discipline-wide norm. They, too, are primary sources. They may
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High-quality grammars of English are, however, very good sources for use in articles on the English language. They are mostly secondary and to an extent tertiary sources, written by actual language experts. They should take precedence over individual monographs and other prescriptive matter. For
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The Australian government style guide, while intended for public not just governmental use, is generally excoriated; some of its recommendations have caused minor political disputes, and even "most public servants ignore it". A new edition has been in the planning stages for years, but even if it
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for a particular field, often scientific. While these mostly consist of highly compressed encyclopedic entries, they may offer reliable style advice on particular things, such as the proper capitalization of a symbol for a unit of measure, how to abbreviate "subspecies" in zoology versus botany,
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News style guides are mostly tertiary; the bulk of their content is in the form of usage dictionaries built up from the experience and input of many professional news editors. They can sometimes be primary, however, when making "do/don't write it this way" advice that conflicts with other style
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Aside from single-entity house style manuals (internal documents for university departments, companies, particular newspapers, specific ministries/agencies), or self-published one-author websites, real style guides do not appear to exists for the Englishes of Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa,
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There are specialized style guides for legal writing, for business letters and memos, for effective marketing, etc., but they don't have any real impact on general writing. Some of these have field-specific details drawn from them (especially in law) for MoS, but otherwise have no detectable
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behind our MoS – are those for mainstream book publishing. Those of journalism also influence less formal usage (e.g. news reporting, marketing, and business style), but very little from them directly affects Knowledge (XXG) style, because it's a markedly different kind of writing. Most
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influence on Knowledge (XXG) style. In particular, many of them are "punctuation-hostile", and like to drop hyphens, commas and other marks that don't seem absolutely necessary when professionals are communicating with other professionals in the same field, in compressed and highly
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are the primary style guides of non-fiction book publishers in North America and the Commonwealth, respectively, and also have a significant impact on journals. Well-educated people who write much will often have a copy of one or the other (though not always a current edition).
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to its students, for example; nor are these works relied upon by book, news, or academic publishers, except for limited, specialized purposes. Governmentese is a quirky style, full of excessive capitalization and a hatred of hyphens, commas, and much other punctuation.
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Government style guides should always be treated as primary sources; their sole purpose is to "lay down the law", advocating a strong stance about the writing under their authority (e.g. that of government workers, or those submitting government paperwork).
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when writing articles here (and sometimes why), without editorializing on propriety or legitimacy. We always keep our broad readership in mind – surely the most general audience in human history, in an era of unprecedented increase in (and reliance upon)
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Style guides issued by government agencies/ministries are usually specific to that particular legal entity. There are exceptions, intended to normalize style across an entire government, with highly variable success rates; examples include the
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example, no amount of punditry against split infinitives and sentence-terminating prepositions can evade the well-studied linguistic fact that there are features of the language; their deployment or condemnation is primarily a matter of
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article structure of journalism is typically only found at Knowledge (XXG) in simple articles; for more complex topics, our pages are arranged more like an academic paper, with a number of subtopical sections, especially if
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in general, then this probably tells us something about Canadian usage, while the result from the University of Toronto's arts department, taken in isolation, tells us nothing but what that department likes. This sort of
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for general English-language matters. The legal ones are often tertiary in large part, collecting mandatory formatting requirements imposed by various court systems, not just promulgating their authors' own style ideas.
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provides research-based analysis for a claim, it is secondary. Where it repeats the averaged advice of "language authorities", it is tertiary. Where it expresses the author's opinion, it is necessarily primary.
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Two sorts of things that Knowledge (XXG) has adopted from journalism stylebooks are how to write about the transgendered, and which US cities are well-known enough to not need to be identified by state unless
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writing principles comes from these works, though they inform several discipline-specific line items in some of MoS's sub-guidelines, and provide supporting authority for some decisions in MoS adopted from
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for medical, science, and other technical topics; e.g., it's where most of our advice on units of measure comes from. This is put together by a multi-disciplinary body of science writers from all over the
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about what is "correct". Textbooks below the university/collegiate level are not reliable sources; this also goes for remedial textbooks, any books written for children, and works written for the
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Not all style guides are created equal; Knowledge (XXG)'s Manual of Style is only based on a few of them, aside from particular topical details. Use of them as sources in our articles must follow
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The style manuals in English that have the strongest effect on general public writing (in the kinds of secondary sources Knowledge (XXG) cares about) – and which most directly inform the
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We have editors from all those parts of the world, and would love to hear from them if they know of "native English" style guides produced in their countries. Please see the talk page.
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is mostly tertiary, and generally provides consistent advice with that of more discipline-specific manuals from professional bodies in chemistry, medicine, and other scientific fields
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came out tomorrow, it would be too soon for it to have any effect on Australian usage any time soon, much less on Knowledge (XXG). The Cambridge book has an Australian edition,
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In a few cases, editors with a bee in their bonnet about the "legitimacy" or "wrongness" of some particular style nit-pick (especially along nationalistic lines) have been
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Canada's style is in flux, even aside from being a commingling of British and American influences plus Canadian innovations. There are several competing style guides, like
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be useful for providing (attributed) quotable definitions of particular terms to compare with other definitions in articles on punctuation and other usage matters.
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says so" isn't a valid rationale). They are also typically written by educators and writers who specialize in writing for that market, not by language experts.
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within anglophone countries. A standard English is an estimation of usage acceptability within a population and does not imply the existence of a
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appear to be the most influential; they're all inconsistent with each other on many points, but converge on an overall British news style). The
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style manuals. Our MoS generally does not deal with grammatical matters, strictly speaking. Knowledge (XXG) trusts that our editors already
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When they offer general writing advice, aside from citations and field-specific stuff, the topical academic guides are mostly in line with
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It contains the advice or opinions of one or more Knowledge (XXG) contributors. This page is not an encyclopedia article, nor is it one of
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Innumerable organizations produce a "house style" guide for internal use. These are not reliable sources for English usage, and are just
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There is no official body for issuing "standards" about the English language. Some reliable sources on English use the term
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discipline-specific academic style manuals are focused on citation formats and the preparation of papers for publication in
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in the sense of published specifications being issued. When referring to a standard English in an article, please link to
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from editing about that peccadillo, or even banned from MoS-related discussion as a whole, especially if their non-neutral
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purposes. Fairly often, you can even find conflicting style guides from different departments at the same legal entity.
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There's also a never-ending stream of over-priced undergraduate textbooks that are almost entirely rather regurgitative
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for British English, and Commonwealth English more broadly. They are not necessarily the most factually correct on all
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The four most frequently used style guides for English are also those that are the main bases of our own MoS. These are
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In newswriting, the most influential manual, by both number of compliant publishers and number of news readers, is the
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Beyond the above, there are few style guides of note, other than for specific fields. Some major examples include the
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Basic learner materials are not reliable sources, for the same reason that secondary-school text books are not.
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English has no global or national language authority; there is no equivalent of the French language's
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policy considers them reliable as a general class (at the university level and higher), they are not
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common in low-end journalism, sportswriting, and entertainment coverage. Our encyclopedia articles'
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One distinction between Knowledge (XXG) style and that of many news and academic publishers is the "
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for short, on which most American government department manuals are actually closely based); the UK
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shows that 17 of the top 20 results in Canadian institutional house stylesheets exclusively prefer
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matters they address, but they are by far the best-selling and thus the most influential on usage.
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head of the school's marketing department for how to style university brochures and webpages for
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guides even in the same field. It's just organizational opinion – a stance – in that case.
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For citations in articles: Highly reputable, organizationally published style guides, like
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Assume that everyone's assuming good faith, assuming that you are assuming good faith
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These are the style guides with the most direct impact on formal written English.
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patently primary opinion; little in either type is secondary. Where a work like
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In this sense, "a grammar" means 'a published study of grammar; a grammar book'.
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sources, and (being tertiary) they cannot be used for any claims that involve
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Don't accuse someone of a personal attack for accusing of a personal attack
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Various other types of works are sometimes referred to as style guides.
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and must not be written like one, but for a general audience. As with
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Knowledge (XXG):You are probably not a lexicologist or a lexicographer
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manuals for specific organizational purposes, e.g. UN directorates.
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of English, which sometimes cover a few style matters, but they're
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sometimes useful, but only in the aggregate. E.g., if a search on
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A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations
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This is just one example. Another is that Knowledge (XXG) uses "
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for Knowledge (XXG), a work that relies on quotation precision.
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Governmental style guides determine (or attempt to determine)
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terminology (depending on the publication in question) – not
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for English writing, both as informative of our own internal
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Not every single thing Donald Trump does deserves an article
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Most people who disagree with you on content are not vandals
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Knowledge (XXG) is not being written in an organized fashion
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For determining what MoS should advise, such "house organs"
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When working on articles, it is important to remember that
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What to do if your article gets tagged for speedy deletion
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Knowledge (XXG)'s Manual of Style also relies heavily on
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How many Wikipedians does it take to change a lightbulb?
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How to put up a straight pole by pushing it at an angle
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No amount of editing can overcome a lack of notability
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at first occurrence so that readers are not mislead.
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journals
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The Chicago Manual of Style
Garner's Modern English Usage
New Hart's Rules
Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage
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Scientific Style and Format
anglosphere
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