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Saying it in style "The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink." George Orwell, Politics of the English Language 
Introduction Neither pedantic nor wild? Michael McNay: The Guardian has always been a newspaper for writers, and so a newspaper for readers ... The Guardian style guide Last updated: September 2008 email: style.guide@guardian.co.uk From the archive Comment is free, but facts are sacred To celebrate the centenary of the Guardian and his 50th anniversary as editor, CP Scott wrote A Hundred Years in 1921. The essay's famous sentence "Comment is free, but facts are sacred" has endured as the ultimate statement of values for a free press and continues to underpin the traditions of the Guardian today. Download the 1928 stylebook Keeping our house style in order
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