These are some of the questions we thought would be easy to answer when we were appointed as editors of the Guardian style guide in October. If there are style guide queries with obvious answers, we haven’t encountered one yet. The introduction to the 1960 edition of the style guide was headed “Neither pedantic nor wild”, and we try to live up to that maxim. Please email your comments or queries to the readers’ editor at guardian.readers@theguardian.com, putting “Style guide” in the subject field. Style guides play a part in the evolution of language, and we need to move with the times.

Source: The Guardian December 29, 2025 10:52 UTC