Dare I....

[Richard Barrett]

If you have access you might find this amusing.

Interesting that "toff" is on their list of banned words... "They don't like it up 'em, Mr Mainwaring!"

[Ein Heldenleben]

Interesting that "toff" is on their list of banned words... "They don't like it up 'em, Mr Mainwaring!"

Heffer doesn’t like slang and he hates journalese . He is however , by journalist standards , a toff...

[Ein Heldenleben]

In the interests of political balance the Guardian style guide like the Telegraph has nothing to say about curate . It does have this to say about the word iconic used every day on R3 by some one -

icons
A selection of the things described in the Guardian as “iconic” in a heady fortnight in 2010:
Archaeopteryx
bluefin tuna
Castro’s cigar
David Beckham wearing an anti-Glazer scarf
Grace Kelly in casual wear
Imperial War Museum
Nigel Slater
Mad Men
Variety
the John Hughes films Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and Weird Science
Shepard Fairey’s Obama Hope design
the parliamentary constituency of Hove
Brandenburg Gate
Bach’s St Matthew Passiona community-owned wind turbine
Kraft cheese slices
salmon farming
the blue and white stripes of Cornishware pottery
Penarth Pavilion, Cardiff
the Norwegian church and Pierhead Building in Cardiff Bay
a multimillion-pound arena in Leeds
a “rock-built engine house at Bottalack near St Just”
the Royal Albert Hallwind turbines (“iconic renewable energy technology”)
Wembley Arena
the video for Kylie Minogue’s Can’t Get You Out of My Head

[french frank]

If you have access you might find this amusing. I’ve never worked for the Telegraph . It’s only a matter of time before curate is on the list..

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/style-book/banned-words/

I think it’s written by Simon Heffer.

Ah, well, Simon Heffer … (a man who knows, however, a good deal about English music )

Most news outlets have their own style guides .

Yes, indeed. The paper I worked for insisted on 'Rumania' and 'protestor', for the more common protester. That was a matter of context: it being that organ's house style, it's what we all respected regardless of our own normal usage. And we were also provided with a list of clichés which were to be avoided. But the 'house style' normally meant 'the editor's whims': a new editor brought with him new whims.

In the interests of political balance the Guardian style guide like the Telegraph has nothing to say about curate . It does have this to say about the word iconic used every day on R3 by some one

And just why would anyone object to the use of the word 'iconic' on any and every occasion? It's language evolution in all its rich glory!

[Miles Coverdale]

railway stations became train stations....

Station stop, surely?

[cat]

Bus stops could be road stations I suppose.