{"id":64,"date":"2020-11-17T05:34:54","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T13:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ucomm.wsu.edu\/editorial-style-guide\/?page_id=64"},"modified":"2022-11-21T10:08:59","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T18:08:59","slug":"spelling","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ucomm.wsu.edu\/editorial-style-guide\/spelling\/","title":{"rendered":"Spelling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<header \n\tclass=\"wsu-c-article-header\" \n\t\t\t>\n\t<h1 class=\"wsu-c-article-header__title\"><\/h1>\n\t\t<div class=\"wsu-c-article-header__subtitle\">\n\t\tWSU Editorial Style Guide\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/header>\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Consult Webster\u2019s New Collegiate Dictionary or&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/\">www.merriam-webster.com<\/a>&nbsp;for spelling, hyphenation, and word breaks.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><strong>American spellings should be used (rather than British spellings).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wsu-m-list--separated\"><li>advisor, not adviser<\/li><li>alumna\/alumnae; alumnus\/alumni <ul><li>The terms \u201calum\u201d or \u201calums\u201d may be appropriate for some contexts, for instance, when used in more informal communications.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>catalog, not catalogue<\/li><li>classwork, not class work<\/li><li>course work, not coursework<\/li><li>emerita\/emeritae; emeritus\/emeriti<\/li><li>curriculum vitae (singular) and curricula vitae (plural)<\/li><li>ex-officio, with a hyphen<\/li><li>full-time, half-time, and part-time are hyphenated whether they precede or follow the noun<\/li><li>fund raising when used as a noun; fund-raising when used as an adjective<\/li><li>health care is always two words<\/li><li>in-depth, in-service when used as an adjective before the noun<\/li><li>multicampus, multidisciplinary, multifaceted<\/li><li>noncredit, not non-credit<\/li><li>nondegree, not non-degree<\/li><li>nonprofit, not non-profit<\/li><li>percent, not per cent<\/li><li>University-wide, system-wide, and campus-wide, but citywide, nationwide, statewide, worldwide<\/li><li>well-being<\/li><li>World Wide Web, website, web page, home page, Internet, webmaster, database, data file, debug, hard copy, input, log on, online<\/li><li>3-D<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consult Webster\u2019s New Collegiate Dictionary or&nbsp;www.merriam-webster.com&nbsp;for spelling, hyphenation, and word breaks. American spellings should be used (rather than British spellings). advisor, not adviser alumna\/alumnae; alumnus\/alumni The terms \u201calum\u201d or \u201calums\u201d may be appropriate for some contexts, for instance, when used in more informal communications. catalog, not catalogue classwork, not class work course work, not coursework [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1342,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"wsuwp_university_category":[],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucomm.wsu.edu\/editorial-style-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucomm.wsu.edu\/editorial-style-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucomm.wsu.edu\/editorial-style-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucomm.wsu.edu\/editorial-style-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1342"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucomm.wsu.edu\/editorial-style-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ucomm.wsu.edu\/editorial-style-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215,"href":"https:\/\/ucomm.wsu.edu\/editorial-style-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64\/revisions\/215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucomm.wsu.edu\/editorial-style-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucomm.wsu.edu\/editorial-style-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucomm.wsu.edu\/editorial-style-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucomm.wsu.edu\/editorial-style-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_category?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucomm.wsu.edu\/editorial-style-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucomm.wsu.edu\/editorial-style-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}