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flyer not flier.forbear is to refrain from saying or doing something. Whereas forebear is an ancestor.foreign words (and phrases) (See also, accents, cliche and italic) Many words and phrases offoreign origin have been absorbed into English and Anglicised (ambience, cafe, delicatessen,per diem). These are treated as English words. Other words and phrases are not consideredAnglicised, or are used directly from their original language. In such cases, these words andphrases should be italicized; for example, the intifada.forms are filled in, not ‘filled out’.fractions see decimalfrontyard and backyard usually one word when they are adjectives.front bench (n) but frontbencher see backyard and frontbench (adj).full stop, full point The simplest of punctuation marks, the full point is usually relegated tosentence ending in most newspapers and this is the style in the School of Journalism andCommunication. Its other main use is to separate the initials of people’s names, as in R.F.X.Connor (note, no space after each).Full points are not used after contractions or abbreviations (Dr, Prof, Ms, St, Ave, Co, Ltd, km,g, etc, the Rev) or between the initials of organisations, states or countries (RAAF, CSIRO,CIB, NSW, PNG, the UK, the US), ships (HMAS Sydney, MV Gascoyne) or chemicals (DDT,2,4,5-T, PVC, TNT).funemployed current speak for the state of using unemployment as an excuse to have funfuneral don’t say ‘the funeral of the late…’ It is the funeral of Professor Fred Smith. Nor‘widow or widower of the late’. Dead people are succeeded by wives, husbands, brothers,and children. Outside the context of the funeral and nascent death, widower and widow can beused, but they are increasingly arcane, and not used.fungus (n) and fungous (adj).Ggaff is a large hook on a long pole used for landing big fish; gaffe is a social blunder. But ‘blowthe gaff’ means to reveal something hidden.gender The word ‘gender’ refers strictly to the grammatical form of nouns and pronouns(his, her, its, she, he, it): it does not refer to the sex of nouns and pronouns and is notinterchangeable with ‘sex’. No male or female ‘gender’ exists. ‘Female’ and ‘male’ are sexes,not genders. Discourses can be gendered.global pandemic is redundant. Do not use it. A pandemic is global. World Health Organisationdeems a pandemic is not just a disease which kills many people, it is also a highly infectiousdisease. Hence the implicit global nature of pandemic. While it may arise in one nationalpopulation, it soon spreads internationally.‘going forward’ is ‘management speak’. Instead use ‘in the future’. Though it has beenlampooned mercilessly, it persists. Best avoided, but if irresistible, use sparingly, and then,only quoting a source.gorilla and guerilla are often confused. A gorilla is a large ape. A guerilla, on the other hand,UQ SJC STYLEBOOK 2012 – PAGE 40