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style·book

(stīl′bo͝ok′)
n.
A book giving rules and examples of usage, punctuation, and typography, used in preparing copy for publication.
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stylebook

(ˈstaɪlˌbʊk)
n
(Journalism & Publishing) a book containing rules and examples of punctuation, typography, etc, for the use of writers, editors, and printers
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style•book

(ˈstaɪlˌbʊk)

n.
1. a book containing the rules of usage in punctuation, typography, and the like, used by editors, writers, typographers, etc.
2. a book of styles and fashions.
[1700–10]
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Translations

stylebook

n (Typ) → Stilvorschriften pl; (Fashion) → Modeheft nt; (for hairstyles) → Frisurenheft nt
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Yes, it was a portmanteau of "Dempster" and "dump", but the Associated Press Stylebook editors dropped the capital in 2016 after the trademark expired.
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Let me offer just a few words about a couple of posts I've seen online regarding the Associated Press' influential stylebook and the abortion issue.
The AP Stylebook and how the abortion issue is described
Please add a note to your stylebook that antiquated terms like "spry" have no place in your excellent, forward-thinking publication.
Spry is out
The AP Stylebook recently made headlines and raised some eyebrows by deeming that we shouldn't capitalize the words Internet and Web anymore when used in an online context.
With the internet, to capitalize or not?
San Francisco, CA, June 09, 2016 --(PR.com)-- Fabusco, the online community that inspires new ways of wearing clothes, releases its new stylebook for June.
Fabusco Street Fashion Community Releases June Stylebook
For the first two weeks or so I was told to read and understand a massive tome called 'Stylebook', The Statesman's own "constitution" which was a compilation of rulings and guidelines by editors and news editors down the years on various aspects of journalism -from simple things like spellings of proper names and prefixes (all males, except those convicted by the law courts, have to have the 'Mr', so with 'Mrs' or Miss) to rules on still more serious matters.
Can the media please leave the judiciary alone?
us of how the Associated Press Stylebook defined various terms in an era before Facebook, YouTube and Google.
Technology defined (back in 2003)
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