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European CommissionDirectorate-General for Translation
EnglishStyle Guide
 A handbook for authors and translators in the European Commission
Fifth edition: 2005
First issued 1982Revised 1983Second edition 1985Revised 1988Third edition 1993Revised 1998Fourth edition 2001This version of the English Style Guide is dated January 2005.For the latest version, seehttp://europa.eu.int/comm/translation/writing/style_guides/english/style_guide_en.pdf  
 
 
 
English Style Guide
T
ABLE OF
C
ONTENTS
 
Introduction
.....................................................................................................................1
Part I Writing English
..................................................................................................31. SPELLING..................................................................................................................5
CONVENTIONS..........................................................................................................5
 
 INTERFERENCE EFFECTS......................................................................................6 
 
CAPITAL LETTERS....................................................................................................7 
 
GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES.......................................................................................10
 
 HYPHENS AND COMPOUND WORDS..................................................................13
 2. PUNCTUATION......................................................................................................16
 FULL STOP..............................................................................................................16 
 
COLON.....................................................................................................................16 
 
SEMICOLON............................................................................................................17 
 
COMMA....................................................................................................................17 
 
 DASHES....................................................................................................................19
 
 BRACKETS...............................................................................................................20
 
QUESTION MARK...................................................................................................20
 
 EXCLAMATION MARK............................................................................................21
 
QUOTATION MARKS..............................................................................................21
 
 APOSTROPHE..........................................................................................................22
 3. NUMBERS...............................................................................................................24
WRITING OUT NUMBERS......................................................................................24
 
 FRACTIONS..............................................................................................................25
 
 RANGES....................................................................................................................26 
 
 DATES AND TIME...................................................................................................26 
 DATES............................................................................................................26TIME...............................................................................................................274. ABBREVIATIONS, ACRONYMS AND SYMBOLS............................................28
 ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS.......................................................................28
 
MATHEMATICAL SYMBOLS...................................................................................29
 
SCIENTIFIC SYMBOLS AND UNITS OF MEASUREMENT..................................30
 5. FOREIGN IMPORTS...............................................................................................32
 FOREIGN WORDS AND PHRASES IN ENGLISH TEXT........................................32
 
 ROMANISATION SYSTEMS.....................................................................................32
 
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