The Times Style Guide: A guide to English usage. Ian Brunskill

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СКАЧАТЬ do not refer to anyone as a “the chair of” anything, unless in a direct quote. Neither must you use “chairperson”. A man must be referred to as a chairman and a woman as a chairwoman. Even if a person’s official title is “chair of …” use chairman or chairwoman (lower case). This is not sexist, it is simply a preference for calling things (and people) by their names, and a reluctance to allow ugly and unnecessary jargon to replace perfectly good words. A professor may, however, be said to hold the chair of theoretical physics, or whatever; a person can chair (used as a verb) a committee; and questions can be put through the chair (which is the office held). Similarly, write spokesman or spokeswoman. If the gender of the person is not clear, write spokesman

      chaise longue two words, no hyphen; plural chaises longues (s on both words)

      chamber (lower case) of the House of Commons

      champagne lower case, because we use it as an English common noun rather than a French proper name. Use only, however, for the product of the Champagne region of France, to which its proper application is restricted by law; otherwise write, eg Russian sparkling wine. The champagne producers protect their name rigorously. See wines

      Champions League (European football), no apostrophe

      chancellor of the exchequer lower case

       changeable

      Changing the Guard not … of the Guard

      Channel, the upper case. Generally, no need to write “the English Channel” for the body of water between England and France

      Channel tunnel lower case tunnel, unless there is some possibility of confusion; also, Channel tunnel rail link

      Chanukkah prefer this to variants such as Hanukkah etc, for the Jewish festival of lights

      chaos overused, and often hyperbole; confusion, disorder, upheaval, turmoil, disarray: say what is meant

      charge that an Americanism, never to be used as a synonym of allege that

      charisma has become a boring cliché; try to find an alternative such as presence, inspiration etc

      charters (as in John Major’s now forgotten initiative) lower case

      château plural châteaux

      Chatham House rule, the strictly speaking just the one, so don’t write Chatham House rules. It says that information disclosed at a meeting may be used or reported by those present on condition that neither the source nor anyone else attending is identified

      chat room two words, but chatline one

      chat show, game show, quiz show, talk show etc no hyphens when used as noun or when adjectival, eg chat show host; note also chatline, sexline

      cheap goods are cheap, prices are low

      check-in (noun) but check in (verb)

      checklist, checkout counter note also checkup (noun); check up (verb)

      cheerleader one word

      cheeses we tried making these all lower case. It worked, but it always seemed a triumph of consistency over common sense. Readers are used in most contexts to seeing capital letters at the start of proper nouns and adjectives, especially place names. So that is what we should do. Wensleydale, Lancashire, Red Leicester, Cheshire and their foreign equivalents simply seem more natural than the lower case alternative. This will give us a few more capital letters in the paper than we might like, but for it to become a problem, we would have to write about cheeses a lot more often than we do. Exceptions are made for cheddar and brie, which are almost universally treated as common nouns (Canadian cheddar, Irish cheddar, Somerset brie). See foodstuffs

      chequebook one word, either as noun or adjective (eg chequebook journalism)

      chi prefer to qi for the vital energy in oriental medicine, martial arts etc believed to circulate around the body in currents

      chickenpox no hyphen; similarly smallpox

      chief constable lower case, the chief constable of Lancashire or the chief constable. Do not write, eg the chief constable of West Midlands police, but simply the chief constable of the West Midlands

      chief inspector of prisons/schools also chief medical officer

      chief of the defence staff is the professional head of the British armed forces and the principal military adviser to the defence secretary and the government; the chief of the general staff is the professional head of the British army

      chief petty officer is an NCO (non-commissioned officer) in the Royal Navy, not an officer

      Chief Rabbi cap at first mention when naming the individual, then the chief rabbi or refer to as Rabbi X or Lord Y (like the Archbishop of Canterbury). See capitalisation (titles of ecclesiastical dignitaries)

      chief whip lower case

      child access, child custody do not use these terms regarding divorce unless in direct quotes and from lay people. Under the Children Act 1989 children are given residence with one parent and the other in disputed cases has contact. Put more simply, children live with one parent and the other is allowed to see them

      childcare as healthcare

      childminder one word

      child pornography/child porn never use these terms, except in direct quotes. Use instead internet child sex abuse, sex abuse images, or similar

      children’s names generally for under-18s, write eg John Jones at first mention and then simply John at second mention

      child-sex abusers/offenders use hyphen

      chilli (plural chillies) prefer to chili

      chill out two words as verb; one word as noun or adjective

      chimera prefer to chimaera

      chimpanzees are apes, not monkeys

      Chinese cap C in idioms such as Chinese whispers, Chinese walls

      Chinese names use the Pinyin rather than the traditional Wade-Giles, so write Beijing, Mao Zedong (though Chairman Mao or just Mao are acceptable), Zhou Enlai etc. Normal style is to place family name first, then given name, so that the actress Zhang Zivi, for instance, becomes Zhang at second mention. For place names, follow The Times Atlas of the World except where СКАЧАТЬ