S - Editorial Style Guide

Feb 17 2010

S

St John Ambulance Brigade: Not St John’s

Safer Neighbourhood Team: In full and takes caps first time, then SNT thereafter e.g. Barnhill SNT

Sands End: No apostrophe

Satnav: No caps

Says: Use said, always, because we write quotes and report in the past tense. Says can only be used in ents features

Schoolchildren: One word as schoolboy, schoolteacher but school-leavers

School subjects: Are lower case, except languages: English, French, Japanese etc

Scotch: Is a drink. The people are Scots or Scottish

Seatbelt: One word

Second-hand: With hyphen

Second World War: Not WW2 or World War Two

seeAbility: The charity, note l/c s

Seize: Note spelling, not sieze, but for siege its i before e

Separate: Note spelling

A set-back: as noun, but ‘to set back’

Sewage: Contents of sewer, sewerage is the sewer system

Shepherd’s Bush: Apostrophe

Sheriff: Note spelling

Shoot-out: Hyphen

Shopkeeper: One word as shopowner, shopfront

Skydive: Is one word

Slammed: Avoid overuse

St Margarets: No apostrophe

Stansted Airport: Note spelling

Stationary: staying still. Stationery: paper, pens etc

Slang: See banned words

South east: No hyphen and all lower case: south east. See compass

South Terminal: Note caps

Spider-Man: Not Spiderman

Storey: Single-storey, three-storey also three-bedroom, not bedroomed

-st endings: Avoid whilst, amongst etc. It is while, among.

Supersede: Note spelling

Swap: Not swop

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