2.16 General. In English, proper names are capitalised but ordinary nouns are not. The titles and names of persons, bodies, programmes, legal acts, documents, etc. are therefore normally capitalised: the President of the Council, the Director-General for Agriculture the Commission, … Read More
2.14 Confusion between English words. Look out for errors involving the pairs below. dependent (adj. or noun) dependant (noun only) license (verb) licence (noun) practise (verb) practice (noun) principal (adj. or noun) principle (noun) stationary (adj.) stationery (noun) 2.15 Confusion … Read More
1 British spelling. Follow standard British usage, but remember that influences are crossing the Atlantic all the time (for example, the spellings program and disk have become normal British usage in information technology, while sulfur has replaced sulphur in scientific … Read More
Language usage. The language used should be understandable to speakers of British English (defined in the introduction to this Guide as the standard usage of Britain and Ireland). As a general rule, British English should be preferred, and Americanisms that … Read More
There are now many software programs for translating natural language, several of them online, such as: SYSTRAN, which powers Yahoo’s Babel Fish Promt, which powers online translation services at Voila.fr and Orange.fr Although no system provides the holy grail of … Read More
