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The BSP Stylebook 2020 edition © 2020 C Divaris DS McAllister Gauteng Bsp Seminars® Gauteng South Africa — 6 — Contents Contents Click on an item to go to that page The Bsp Stylebook ............................................................................................. 3 Terms and conditions ....................................................................................... 5 Contents ........................................................................................................... 7 Preface to the fifth edition .............................................................................. 13 (Mildly updated) .......................................................................................... 13 Preface to the ninth edition ............................................................................ 17 Preface to the 2013 edition ............................................................................. 19 Preface to the 2020 edition ............................................................................. 23 Alphabetical entries .......................................................................................... 25 Alphabetical entries—‘A’ .............................................................................. 27 Alphabetical entries—‘B’ .............................................................................. 39 Alphabetical entries—‘C’ .............................................................................. 43 Alphabetical entries—‘D’ .............................................................................. 53 Alphabetical entries—‘E’............................................................................... 59 Alphabetical entries—‘F’ ............................................................................... 65 Alphabetical entries—‘G’ .............................................................................. 71 Alphabetical entries—‘H’ .............................................................................. 73 Alphabetical entries—‘I’ ................................................................................ 79 Alphabetical entries—‘J’ ............................................................................... 91 Alphabetical entries—‘K’ .............................................................................. 93 Alphabetical entries—‘L’............................................................................... 95 Alphabetical entries—‘M’ ........................................................................... 101 Alphabetical entries—‘N’ ............................................................................ 105 Alphabetical entries—‘O’ ............................................................................ 113 Alphabetical entries—‘P’ ............................................................................. 117 Alphabetical entries—‘Q’ ............................................................................ 125 Alphabetical entries—‘R’ ............................................................................ 129 Alphabetical entries—‘S’ ............................................................................. 135 Alphabetical entries—‘T’............................................................................. 147 Alphabetical entries—‘U’ ............................................................................ 155 Alphabetical entries—‘V’ ............................................................................ 159 Alphabetical entries—‘W’ ........................................................................... 161 Alphabetical entries—‘Y’ ............................................................................ 167 Alphabetical entries—‘Z’............................................................................. 169 Numbers & characters .................................................................................. 171 Great reference works .................................................................................. 173 Introduction .................................................................................................... 177 Any hope for cruddy writing? ...................................................................... 177 On professional writing in general ............................................................. 181 1. Problematic pronouns ................................................................................. 193 Types of pronouns ........................................................................................ 193 The BSP Stylebook 2020 edition © 2020 C Divaris DS McAllister Gauteng Bsp Seminars® Gauteng South Africa — 7 — Contents Too few pronouns ...................................................................................... 195 Too many pronouns ................................................................................... 199 The unrelated pronoun ............................................................................... 203 The pronoun as legalism ............................................................................ 209 Choosing between ‘who’ & ‘that’ .............................................................. 211 Choosing between ‘such’ & ‘that’ ............................................................. 215 Take that ...................................................................................................