Book description
The Daily Telegraph Style Guide
Edited by Simon Heffer
The Telegraph newspapers maintain their high standards of
accuracy, literacy and grammar thanks to a comprehensive style book
used by all their journalists, covering everything from the specific
circumstances of a woman that permit the appellation dowager to the
spelling of Gorden Kaye's Christian name when writing about Allo,
Allo. In recent years the crusade against cliche, jargon, tautology
and inanity has been taken up in the hugely popular column of its
Associate Editor Simon Heffer, who writes the foreword to this, the
first edition of the Style Guide to be published for a general readership.
So, if you want to stand corrected on the acceptable usage of
the word erupt ('what volcanoes and pustules do. Rows, arguments and
disputes break out'), know which is the only nationality in the world
etymologically entitled to run amok, or if you were even thinking of
using the word underwhelming, The Telegraph Style Guide is an
indispensable and endlessly entertaining companion. A uniquely
enjoyable and frequently very funny read, it is an ideal gift.
