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Then you will not write like this: After orbiting the asteroid for more than a year, the mission scientists decided to set the probe down on its surface. 38 The definite article To write in a genuine familiar or truly English style is to write as any one would speak in common conversation. William Hazlitt | The definite article | The BBC News Styleguide Rick Thompson, the author of a previous BBC style guide, devoted a section to the because, in his words, it is clearly in danger from scores of unfeeling hacks.

It says it will be creating twenty thousand new jobs worldwide – eight thousand of them in the UK. Here’s Justin Thyme: THYME: Tesco is creating twenty thousand new jobs worldwide – twelve thousand in Central Europe and Asia and eight thousand in this country … • If repetition is bad, so is raising expectations. A cue on job losses in manufacturing which says Wales is expected to be badly affected, followed by a piece which makes no mention of Wales is doing the audience no favours. When the parents of a murdered child accused a leading politician of using their son’s death as a political football, the phrase was in the news headline, the cue and the piece, all in a matter of minutes.

The six metropolitan county councils created in 1974 (Merseyside, Greater Manchester,Tyne and Wear,West Midlands,West and South Yorkshire) no longer exist. Neither does Strathclyde regional council. Nor do Humberside, Cleveland or Avon. If in doubt, and you probably will be, check. Priests celebrate mass. If there is more than one, they are con-celebrating. People go to or attend mass. The capital of South Africa is Pretoria, not Johannesburg. There is a UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), but, oddly, no such organisation as the UN High Commission for Refugees.

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