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Dithyrambo Posted 20 years ago
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Strunk,Chicago, Gowers, etc.
0 I've been searching for a British English equivalent to Strunk and White, and Elements of Style. So far, no dice. Is there such an animal in the UK? The nearest I can think of is Ernest Gowers's original 'Complete Plain Words', which we read for GCE O-levels in England in 1956. Then, at age 18, I was a cub reporter for a while, and we had a style manual which apparently had been compiled by our parent organization. So, as far as I can see there's no universally accepted manual, and each publication promulgates its own. 0-
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00 Most British journalists imagine that their English is already sufficiently stylish, without any help from a manual; but those that do have moments of self-doubt would probably consult a fairly limited bookshelf consisting of Fowler's Modern English Usage (the 1965 Gowers revision, most likely), Partridge's Usage and Abusage, the Times Style Guide, and
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00 Most British journalists imagine that their English is already sufficiently stylish, without any help from a manual; but those that do have moments of self-doubt would probably consult a fairly limited bookshelf consisting of Fowler's Modern English Usage (the 1965 Gowers revision, most likely), Partridge's Usage and Abusage, the Times Style Guide, and
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