SJC-style-and-production-guide-2012

judgment Only one ‘e’.junta somewhat loaded term meaning small governing elite, either self-appointed or elected. Ithas negative connotations. Best use the term ‘government’.KKoran is the sacred text and book of the Islamic faith. It is capitalised and italicised. There are anumber of spellings including Qur’an. But Koran is preferred.Llady Even if the wife of a knight or peer, a woman is a woman. ‘Lady’ is used only as animperial title or part of a proper name (eg, Lady Fairfax, Methodist Ladies’ College). Thisapplies equally to sports reporting: the ‘ladies’ tee’ is the ‘women’s tee’; the ‘ladies’ hackevent’ is the ‘women’s . . . ‘lama is a buddhist priest. Llama is a South American animal.Last Post does not have the article ‘the’. It is not played but sounded.laud (v) praise, literary esp. Laudable behaviour or sentiments worthy of praise.Laudatory (adj) praiseworthy contents in, say, statements.lead/led ‘Lead’ is the present tense of the verb ‘to lead’, pronounced ‘leed’. It is also a heavymetal, pronounced ‘led’. The past tense of ‘to lead’ is ‘led’, also pronounced ‘led’. The wordused for the lead paragraph in a news story is arcane, but spelled ‘lede’ and pronounced ‘leed’.leverage as a noun and verb in the world of finance is the practice of debt financing acommercial venture.leveraged is the adjective used to describe a company financed largely through debt; it can alsobe the proportion of a company financed through debt, as against share issues or savings.lengthy Use ‘long’.lent and leant are often confused. Lent is the period in the christian calendar before Easter.Leant is the past tense of the verb ‘to lean’ against a wall.less than See fewer/less.liaise Note the extra ‘i’. See also Ukrainian.libertarian person advocating free thinking, free speech and free life style; libertine free living,especially sexually/morally. Bohemian.licence (n)/license (v) (See practice/practise.) American spellings are different.like ‘He (n) treats (v) that student like a baby’ is correct — ‘like’ is used as a preposition. ‘Hetreats that student like a mother treats a baby’ is incorrect — ‘like’ is used as a conjunction.Use of ‘like’ is also incorrect in ‘He went on talking like nothing had happened’; ‘It lookedlike he would never stop’; ‘Like the professor said . . .’ Kahn (1985: 330) points out that, asa rule of thumb, if ‘like’ can be replaced with ‘as’ (‘in the way that’/’in the same way’), ‘asif’ or ‘as though’, then ‘like’ is incorrect. Use of ‘like’ is correct only when replacement isUQ SJC STYLEBOOK 2012 – PAGE 46