{"id":2561,"date":"2011-04-22T13:10:31","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T20:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=2561"},"modified":"2011-04-22T15:12:37","modified_gmt":"2011-04-22T22:12:37","slug":"book-telegraph-style-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2011\/04\/book-telegraph-style-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Book: Telegraph Style Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Simon Heffer, Philip Reynolds<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FDaily-Telegraph-Style-Guide-Heffer%2Fdp%2F1845135717%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1303504449%26sr%3D1-1&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\n\"target=\"_blank\">The Telegraph Style Guide<\/a> (Aurum). Whenever <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Telegraph-Guide.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Telegraph-Guide.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Telegraph Guide\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Telegraph-Guide.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Telegraph-Guide-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Telegraph-Guide-110x110.jpg 110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/><\/a><em>Rifftides<\/em> has posted an <strong>Other Matters<\/strong> entry about language, our readers, a literate lot, have responded. This book, designed to keep the staff of the UK\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <i>Telegraph<\/i> newspapers on their toes, will appeal to those interested in correct usage&#151;and in having a good chuckle. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<strong>Slamme<\/strong>d is acceptable for a door,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d it says, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153but not as a metaphor for criticism.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<strong>Very<\/strong>, Usually redundant.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Among the <i>Telegraph\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s<\/i> banned words and phrases: <strong>huge<\/strong>, <strong>iconic<\/strong>, <strong>mission creep<\/strong>, <strong>scam<\/strong>.  A caution: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Highly adjectival writing is a mainstay of tabloid journalism.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Yes, and it&#8217;s showing signs of mission creep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Telegraph newspapers on their toes, will appeal to those interested in correct usage&#151;and in having a good chuckle. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Slammed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-books","7":"category-recommendations","8":"entry","9":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}