By: Craig Silverman

Craig Silverman — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:04:29 +0000

Thanks for your comment. The editor refers to the paper’s “style book” in his email, though it’s in a section I didn’t quote on the site. We tend to use the term “style guide” here in North America, so that might have caused some confusion. The style guide/book is a document that outlines the way a particular news organization handles grammar, proper names, usage etc. You can read the Telegraph’s style book here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1435295/Telegraph-Style-Book-Introduction.html

By: czetie

czetie — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 12:46:19 +0000

Did you really mean “style guide”? The word “style” in the Telegraph’s email is used not in the sense of “style guide” but in the sense of the correct form of a formal title. In this case, the TITLE of the daughter of an earl is “Lady”, and the correct STYLE is “Lady Sarah Ashley”, not “Lady Ashley”. There are other situations in which somebody who has the title “Lady” would have the STYLE “Lady Ashley”. (For comparison, after her divorce from Prince Charles, Diana was granted permission to use the STYLE “Diana, Princess of Wales” but not “Princess Diana”; and a non-British citizen who receives an honorary knighthood, such as Bob Geldof or Rudolf Giuliani, cannot “style” himself “Sir”.)

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