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

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       4. Roman Catholic archbishops, at first mention: the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Liverpool, the Most Rev John X, subsequent mentions Archbishop X or the archbishop; bishops, first mention the Roman Catholic Bishop of Plymouth, the Right Rev Christopher Y, thereafter Bishop Y or the bishop, unless he has a doctorate, when he is Dr Y; Anglican and Catholic archbishoprics carefully avoid overlap, but there is no reason readers should know this, so it may be helpful to spell out in this way at first mention which church is involved

      arch-rival hyphenate in the sense of chief rival. For combinations using the prefix arch-, some will look better hyphenated while others can be a single word, eg archbishop

      Argentine is the adjective; an Argentinian is a person from Argentina (never the Argentine)

      Argyle for socks, jumpers and the Plymouth football club; Argyll for the Scottish county and its regiment, the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

      armada cap in historical reference to Drake etc, otherwise lower case; try to avoid (or at least limit) imprecise use of this word: it means a fleet of armed ships, so strictly should not be applied to just any collection of boats or ships; flotilla might sometimes be a better word for what you want

      Armageddon cap

      armchair, deckchair no hyphens

      armed forces, the lower case; also the services

      Armistice Day is not the same as Remembrance Sunday (unless November 11 falls on a Sunday)

      arm’s length as in “he was kept at arm’s length”; but hyphenate as a modifier, eg “the former partners now have an arm’s-length relationship”

      army cap the British Army, if naming in full (but otherwise and thereafter the army, eg “he joined the army”; “government efforts to reform the army”); otherwise all lower case: the Belgian army, the Swiss army, the US army; always lower case when used adjectivally, eg an army helicopter, a British army tank, a Swiss army knife

      A-road, B-road etc hyphenated

      around do not use as an alternative to about

      Arran Isle of, in the Firth of Clyde; but the Aran Islands (note one r) off Co Galway in western Ireland, and Aran Island (singular) off Co Donegal; and an Aran sweater etc

      arrest rarely necessary to add “by the police”; an arrest made by anyone else is worth explaining. If, unusually, there is a good reason for specifying a particular squad or unit, then do so: he was arrested by the anti-terrorist squad, by officers investigating phone-hacking, by detectives from South Yorkshire police who had travelled to Spain etc

      art deco artistic style/movement (see below), lower case seems fine, but use caps if needed for clarity

      artefact do not use artifact

      artiste not a word to use seriously; prefer entertainer, performer, singer, dancer etc

      artistic knights with these, use only surname in their artistic contexts (eg Rattle conducted the Berlin Philharmonic with panache), but full title in news stories with, for example, political or social contexts (eg Sir Simon Rattle visited No 10 yesterday). Similarly, McKellen played Lear, but Sir Ian McKellen led the gay rights march

      artistic movements/styles generally lower case for all period or stylistic designations — baroque, classical, neoclassical, rococo, modernist, minimalist, postmodern — except in the context of quite specific art historical discussion (of, eg an exhibition of German Expressionist painting) or where clarity is helped by a capital: the romantic movement, for instance, can usually be lower case like the rest, but there may be times when it matters that Romantic verse, as written by Byron or Keats, is not necessarily romantic verse, in which case use a cap for clarity

      Arts and Crafts movement seems to need caps for clarity

      as beware of sloppy use in sentences such as “They were moved out as the blast tore open the building”; what is meant is “after the blast …”. The sport headline “Martis makes crucial mistake as Mowbray’s men go down” wrongly suggests that the blunder by Shelton Martis, the West Bromwich Albion defender, was unconnected to his team’s relegation from the Premier League in May 2009. In fact, it was his error that led to a first Liverpool goal. After that, his team lost and went down to the Championship. Avoid having lots of headlines using “as”; ensure here as well as in copy that its precise meaning of “when” is retained. It is not a synonym for “before” or “after”

      Ascendancy for clarity cap when referring to the landowning Protestant minority in Irish historical context

      ascendant, ascendancy prefer to ascendent, ascendency

      Asian while this is obviously an adjective pertaining to Asia, or a person from that continent, note that in Britain it can have a narrower officially sanctioned, although in some quarters controversial, meaning of a person who comes from, or whose parents came from, India, Pakistan or elsewhere in south Asia; be aware that using it in this way (especially in eg crime stories) may annoy British Asians of other backgrounds. In North America Asian is more likely to refer to people from China, Japan or elsewhere in east Asia

      aside from do not use this Americanism. Write apart from

      as of (with dates) prefer on, after or from to make clear what is meant

      assassin, assassinate, assassination to be used only in the murder of a statesman or politician from a political motive; not to be used for the killing of general celebrities or others

      assizes like quarter sessions, no longer function, having been replaced by the Crown Court

      assure you assure your life; ensure means to make certain; you insure against risk

      as to avoid in the sense of the much preferred about

      asylum seeker no hyphen

      at the present time, at this time use now; but avoid the phrase “as of now”

      Atlantic (Ocean) North Atlantic, South Atlantic, but transatlantic

      attendee ghastly word that there was no need to coin; avoid

      attorney-general, solicitor-general both are hyphenated; they are law officers, not legal officers

      aubrieta prefer to aubrietia and aubretia (named after Claude Aubriet). The genus, as per standard botanical style, is Aubrieta

      auditor general lower case, no hyphen

      Auntie not aunty as antique colloquialism for the BBC

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