My favourite style guide returns to the web
After several months of hibernation, The Economist Style Guide is finally back on-line. Most newspapers and publishing houses have style guides to help their journalists or authors stay consistent when faced with those little choices like whether to use -ise or -ize at the end of verbs like criticise, whether to eliminate the accent in a foreign name or whether to use a Latin or English plural for words like agenda. Some share their guides in book form or on the web: see my collection of style guide links on Pinboard. They serve a useful purpose but, frankly, they are rather boring. But not the Economist Style Guide, which is masterpiece of advice on how to improve your writing. Read it and marvel, or—better still—read it and improve your writing too!
My collection of style guide links on Pinboard
Old version of The Economist Style Guide, with table of contents
The Economist Style Guide