Waterhouse on newspaper style /
Keith Waterhouse ; illustrations by Trog.
- Revised and expanded edition.
- 250 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Previous edition: published as Daily mirror style. London : Mirror, 1981.
Adjectives -- Alliteration -- And now -- The asthmatic comma -- Captions -- Catchwords -- Clichés (standard) -- Clichés (trade) -- Compression -- Consequences -- Crossheads -- Dead letters -- Dots and dashes -- Dramatic events drama -- Facetiousness -- Free speech -- Grammar -- Great minds -- How say you? -- Hyphens -- Illiterals -- Imaginary rules -- The incredible blob -- Inelegant variation -- The intro -- I say, I say -- Italic and bold -- Jargon -- Journalese -- Just-so stories -- Kneejerks -- Lists -- Little by little -- Metaphor and simile -- More haste -- Not only but also -- The numbers game -- Officialese -- Oh, really? -- Ooh la la -- Paragraphs -- The pay-off -- Person to person -- Polysyllables -- Possessions -- Puns and wordplay -- Quote unquote -- Ramboism -- Rank and file -- Says who? -- Screamers! -- Sexism -- Sex romps -- Stagger off -- Supernumeraries -- Tabloidese -- Tautology -- The tops -- The weather-vane -- Waht rot -- Which is that? -- What is style?
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