Enquiry: to ask a question generally
Jail
Not gaol
Jewellery
Note spelling
Kids
Slang - don’t use. Preferred words are children or young people
Latter
Is the second of two, not the last of a series
Last
Use previous when referring to editions (previous edition) – unless it really is the last
Lawsuit
One word
Learn
Learned is past tense, learnt is the past participle: She learned, she had learnt Less means smaller in quantity, eg less money, less crime. Fewer means smaller in number, eg fewer coins, fewer crimes. Simple rule: if it is a plural, use fewer
Less, fewer
Licence, license
Licence is a noun, license is the verb
Lifelong Lifetime
One word
One word Lightning, lightening Lightning: electrical discharge from storm cloud. Lightening: getting lighter Literally
Avoid using. Means something has actually occurred – but often misused to describe something that hasn’t happened: “Bolton Wanderers literally came back from the dead.”
Long-term Massive Medieval
Hyphenated
Avoid using, major is often suitable
Not mediaeval
Media
Is plural and includes TV, radio and newspapers
Minibus, minicab, minivan
One word
Minuscule Motorway
Note spelling
Style is M6, M62. Junctions in capitals – eg M67, Junction 5
Motorcycle, motorbike Nationwide
One word
One word and no initial capital letter
Naught, nought Naught: nothing. Nought: the figure 0 New developments Where new developments have not yet been officially
named, use the following format to avoid confusion with existing Anchor properties: [New care home/assisted living development/retirement village], [name of street], [name of town/city], For example: Our new care home in New Street, New Town
New Year’s Day
Initial capital letters, but new year is lower case
No-one
One word and hyphenated
Not-for-profit
Note spelling Note spelling
Occur, occurred Offhand, offside
One word, but note: off-licence
On-site
Hyphenated Hyphenated Note spelling
One-to-one
Ordnance Survey
Anchor Language and Style Guide v20 300724
Page 20
Made with FlippingBook - PDF hosting