The Magazine Style-Code

Part 5

Chapter 5543 wordsPublic domain

Dictionary of capital letters in detail, being alphabetically arranged, 33

Dictionary should govern, 10

Division of words, 50

Edited MSS. save money, 3

Editorial observations, 51

Employee preferred to employe, (1) under 51

Er words rather than re, Page 54

Et al., Page 52

Etc., Page 52

Ethics and similar words, (g) under 74

Farther and further, 55

Figures, how used in dates, 24

Follows and as follow, Page 52

Following named, Page 53

Foreign words and phrases, 56

Headquarters is or are, Page 52

Hours, how written, 25

Interrupted compounds, 45

Last held meeting, Page 52

Law books, how cited, 36

Magazines, how named, 54

Medieval, etc., 63

Month, how written, 26

Money, ten dollars was paid, 74

MS. and MSS., (4) under 27

Names not abbreviated, 28

Names, plural of, 65

Newspapers and magazines, 54

Night of Horrors, 34

Numbers, spell out, 24

O, Oh, Oh!, 64

On yesterday or yesterday, Page 53

Operas and plays, 52 and 58

Pages, how cited, 38

Paper, size for printers, 8

Paragraphs, how cited, 37

Parentheses and punctuation, 62

Parentheses for states, (10) under 27

Pet names, how used, (11) under 27

Plays and operas, how cited, 52

Plurals, Page 53

Plurals of names, 65

Preferred words, Page 53

Printers blamed, 5

Printers to edit reprint, 11

PS., (17) under 27

Publications, how cited, 39

Punctuation, some forms of, 61, 62

Quarto, (12) under 27

Quote-marks in general, 66 and 68

Quote-marks, use of single, 68

Reverend, the, 69

Salutations, how written, 59, 60

Saviour and savior, 70

Scriptural citations, 40

Self-confessed, Page 54

Ships and vessels, 53

Simplified spelling, 82

Singulars and plurals, 74

Single quote-marks, 68

Singulars again, (c) under 74

Smaller type, 67

Specials, 71

Spellings preferred, 72

Spoonfuls, Page 53

States, names of abbreviated, 29

Stenographers need the code, 80

Streets, how printed, (13) under 27

Style-codes to be mastered, 9

Style-codes needed, 2

Sums-two and two is four, (a) under 74

Time references, (14) under 27

Titles, how written, (7) and (15) under 27

To wit, (8) under 27

Towns and cities, (6) under 27

Unfamiliar words, 57

United States is or are, 73

Verbs, singular or plural, 74

Wave-lines, 78

Welsh rabbit, Page 53

Whereabouts is, 75

Women and husband’s titles, 76

Words, division of, 50

Words in legal papers, (16) under 27

Years, 23

* * * * *

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MANUFACTURERS OF

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* * * * *

Transcriber's Note:

Bold text is surrounded by =equals signs=, and small caps have been changed to ALL CAPS.

Punctuation has been standardised. Variations in hyphenation and obsolete or variant spelling have all been preserved.

The following changes have been made:

Page 20: twelvemo => 12mo: (12mo may be used)

Page 45: standstone => sandstone

Index: Abbreviations of names of states, 28 => 29

Index: States, names of abbreviated, 28 => 29

Index: Ethics and similar words, (9) under 74 => (g) under 74

Index: Headquarters is or are, 52 => Page 52

Index: Last held meeting, 52 => Page 52

End of Project Gutenberg's The Magazine Style-Code, by Leigh H. Irvine