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Dartmouth Editorial Style Guide

Version 1.1.2 - July, 2008

Spelling

Webster's usually contains more than one spelling per word. Use the first spelling given. Other words frequently misspelled or common at Dartmouth are listed below.

A
  • a lot (no such word as alot)
  • accommodate
  • administration
  • African American
  • AIDS
  • All-America
  • all right
  • alumni
  • AP I, AP II (note spaces)
  • ASAP
  • audiovisual (no space, no hyphen)
B
  • biathlon
  • British Columbia (and see below)
  • bypass
C
  • campus-wide
  • Class of 1964
  • classwork
  • cochair
  • co-editor
  • Colombia (country); Columbia (University)
  • cosponsor
  • coursework
  • cross-country (adj.); cross country (adv.)
  • cum laude
D
  • decathlon
E
  • Elderhostel
  • Eleazar
F
  • fieldwork
  • First-Year Office (not Freshman Office); Office of the Dean of First-Year Students
  • freelance; freelancer
  • Fulbright scholar
  • full-time (adj.); full time (adv.)
  • fund-raiser (person - n); fund raising (act of - n); fund-raising effort (adj.)
G
  • grade-point average
  • great-granddaughter
J
  • jack-o'-lantern (a pumpkin); Jack-O-Lantern (the Dartmouth publication)
L
  • liaison
  • lieutenant
  • lifelong
  • lifetime
  • long-standing
  • long-term
  • longtime (adj.)
M
  • mid-August; but midwinter
  • mini-reunion
  • Moosilauke
N
  • nonprofit
O
  • ob-gyn
  • Occom (the man, the pond, the inn, and the ridge; not Occum)
  • off-campus (adj., as in: She is enrolled in an off-campus program.)
  • off campus (adv., as in: He is living off campus.)
  • Off-Campus Program (the department; as in: She has a meeting to attend in the Off-Campus Program office.)
  • OK or okay (but not O.K.)
  • ophthalmology
  • outperform
P
  • Palaeopitus
  • part-time (adj.); part time (adv.)
  • pastimes
  • pentathlon
  • Phi Beta Kappa
  • Philippines
  • postcard
  • Portuguese
  • pow-wow (generic use); Pow-wow (when part of a title)
  • premed; premedical
  • Procter & Gamble
  • proofread; proofreader
R
  • rappel, rappelling
  • Rhodes scholar
  • Romania
  • roommate
S
  • sizable
  • skijoring (a sport in which a skier is drawn across snow by a vehicle)
  • Smithsonian Institution; also Brookings Institution
  • stepson
  • Storrs Pond (no apostrophe)
T
  • T-shirt
  • teenage; teenager
  • tenure track (n); tenure-track (adj.)
  • non-tenure track (n); non-tenure-track (adj.)
  • theater
  • transatlantic
  • triathlon
U
  • under way (n, adj.; note space)
V
  • V-12 (a navy training program in place at Dartmouth during WWII)
  • Vice President of the United States
  • Vietnam
W
  • Winnipesaukee
  • worldwide (but World Wide Web)

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