7. Don’t advertise a particular revolver or other manufactured article by naming it in your story, except for special cause, as when this information may furnish a clew to a person’s identity. Also it is seldom desirable to give the caliber of a firearm.
8. Don’t use “amateur” when you mean “novice.” An amateur is not necessarily unskilled; he is simply not a professional. An unskilled beginner is a novice.
9. Don’t make the mistake that appeared in this published headline: “Audience of 5,000 See Aëroplane Flight.” An audience hears; spectators see.
10. Don’t spell “forward,” “backward,” “toward,” “homeward” and similar words with a final “s.”
11. Don’t use stories that are not fit for any member of any family to read. If a mob makes such a demonstration against a man accused of criminal assault that the story has to be covered for that feature, a mere hint will be sufficient to cover the revolting part.—From the St. Louis Star Style-Book.
12. Don’t use “burglarize.” The dictionary contains no such word.
13. Don’t say “he had his arm cut off.” That means literally that he got someone to perform the operation of cutting off his arm. Say, in case of accident, “his arm was cut off.”
14. Don’t say “Smith sustained an injury.” To sustain is to bear up. Say he “suffered an injury.”
15. Don’t use “over” in the sense of “more than.” Say “more than 300 persons heard the lecture.”
16. Don’t use “party” for “person.” “Party,” outside of legal documents, means a group of persons.