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Originally Posted by montana123
...it depends on which professional style guide you follow. Most every professional publication has its writers follow one specific style guide, and for those writers, the correct answer to any spelling or style question is whatever the most recent edition of the style guide they use says it is.
In the United States, at least, The AP (Associated Press) Style Guide is far and above the most-used guide, followed by The Chicago Manual of Style. Further confusing the matter, though, is the fact that most publications also have their own in-house style guides that are generally used to compliment The AP Guide, The Chicago Manual, or whatever other professional guide they follow....
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This is somewhat off-topic, but in late-breaking news, violence continues between two rival gangs divided by their loyalties to the
The Associated Press Stylebook and
The Chicago Manual Of Style. See
4 Copy Editors Killed In Ongoing AP Style, Chicago Manual Gang Violence for details.
