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Watch your b*d language: guidance on how to deal with profanities
Our blog post helps you answer important questions about profanities in government content. Should you include them when writing for government? If so, should you censor those profanities? And what is the Style Manual's recommended censorship style?
25 March 2026
The subjunctive – if only it were easy!
What is the subjunctive and why is it moody? A Distinguished Editor answers these questions and decides that any report of the subjunctive’s death is merely wishful thinking.
15 December 2025
Sentence case, title case and the titles of works
Writers often refer to the titles of published and unpublished material (works) in their content. There are different rules for styling the titles of various types of works such as books, magazines and podcasts. The rules use capitalisation (sentence case and title case), punctuation, and italic or roman type to help users identify titles easily.
18 September 2025