, 3a,
3b, 4, 5.

A circle around an abbreviation or a figure indicates that the word
or number is to be spelled out. A circle around a spelled-out word
or number indicates that it is to be abbreviated or run in
figures.

Mark the end of your story, thus: # # #

=13. Don'ts:=

Don't use "Honorable" or abbreviations thereof, except in extracts
from speeches or documents, in editorials, or before foreign
names.

Don't add final s to afterward, toward, upward, downward, backward,
earthward, etc.

Don't use "signed" before the signature of a letter or document; run
signature in caps.

Don't begin a sentence or paragraph with figures; insert a word
before the figures or spell out.

Don't use commas in dates or in figures which denote the number of a
thing, as A. D. 1908, 2324 State street, Policy 33815; in other
cases use the comma, as $5,289; 1,236,400 people.

Don't forget that the following are singular and require singular
verbs: sums of money, as $23 was invested; United States; anybody,
everybody, somebody, neither, either, none; whereabouts, as "His
whereabouts is known."

Don't forget that things OCCUR by chance or accident, and that
things TAKE PLACE by arrangement.

Don't "sustain" broken legs and other injuries.

Don't "administer" punishment.

Don't confound "audiences," "spectators," and casual "witnesses."

Don't say "party" for "person."

Don't use "suicide," "loan," "scare," as verbs.

Don't use "gotten"; it is questionable; use "got."

Don't use "burglarize."

Don't use "transpire" for "occur."

Don't use "locate" for "find"; to locate a thing is to place it.

Don't use "stopped" for "stayed": He stayed at the Central Hotel.

Don't "tender" receptions nor "render" songs; use simply "give" and
"sing."

Don't "put in an appearance"; just appear.

Don't use "don't" for "doesn't."

Don't use "stated" for "said."

Don't say "per day" or "per year," but "a day," "a year"; per is a
Latin word and can be used only before a Latin noun, as "per diem"
or "per annum."

Don't say "the meeting convened"; members might convene but a single
body cannot.

Don't "claim that" anything is so; you can "claim" a thing,
however.

Don't say "Mrs. Dr. Smith," just "Mrs.