Simon Heffer, Philip Reynolds, The Telegraph Style Guide (Aurum). Whenever 
Rifftides has posted an Other Matters entry about language, our readers, a literate lot, have responded. This book, designed to keep the staff of the UK’s Telegraph newspapers on their toes, will appeal to those interested in correct usage—and in having a good chuckle. “Slammed is acceptable for a door,†it says, “but not as a metaphor for criticism.†“Very, Usually redundant.†Among the Telegraph’s banned words and phrases: huge, iconic, mission creep, scam. A caution: “Highly adjectival writing is a mainstay of tabloid journalism.†Yes, and it’s showing signs of mission creep.