6. Appendix – terminology A to Z
About
Instead of “in the order of” Use plenty or enough instead
Abundance
Adjacent
Use next to
Adverse, averse
Adverse means unfavourable Averse is having a strong dislike of or opposition to something
Advice, advise
Advice (noun) is a suggestion or counsel Advise (verb) is to give advice
Adviser
Not advisor
Affect, effect
Affect (verb) is to act upon or influence Effect (noun) is the result of an action, eg he had affected the overall effect of the programme
Afterwards
Not afterward
Ageing Agenda All right
Not aging
Plural: agendas
Not alright Not amidst Not amongst
Amid
Among
Anti
Avoid hyphenating if looks sensible without, eg antisocial, antipathy, but hyphenate otherwise
Acquire Around
Use buy or get
Use ‘about’ or ‘approximately’ instead when talking about sums of money, figures, etc
Artist
Not artiste See insure
Assure Before
Instead of ‘in advance of’ Benefited/Benefiting Both words contain only one t Biannual, biennial Biannual: twice a year Biennial: every two years
To avoid confusion, use twice a year or every two years
Brand new
Just say new
Britain
United Kingdom also acceptable. Don’t use Great Britain unless you mean to exclude Northern Ireland (GB = England, Scotland and Wales only)
Byelaw Canvas
Not bylaw or bye-law
Canvas: the cloth Canvass: seek votes or opinion
Car park
Two words
Censor, censure
Censor: prevent publication Censure: criticise severely
Century
Initial capital letter when written as ‘in the 21st Century’
Chair
Instead of chairman/chairperson
Clampdown
One word when a noun, two words when a verb (‘..will clamp down on…’)
Clichés
Avoid them …like the plague
Collective nouns
Always treat as singular, eg the government was elected,
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