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(rev. March 2006)
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A
AARP
— use only the initials for the organization formerly known as the American
Association of Retired Persons
academic
degrees — a bachelor’s degree, a master’s degree, a doctorate, an associate
degree (note no possessive in associate). Capitalize formal name, i.e.            
Bachelor of Arts, Master of Science, etc. See AP Stylebook for details.
accommodate
ad
hoc committee
advice
(noun) advise (verb)
adviser
— not advisor
affect
(verb)
after-school
program
afterward
(no S)
al-Qaida
— not al Qaeda
allegedly
(use in sentences not attributed directly to police)
AmeriCorps
Appellate
Division of Superior Court
Army
of Ansar al-Sunna
AM/FM
arrested
for is taboo. Say charged with.
Applebee’s
avian
flu, bird flu – lowercase
ax
— no E

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B
backyard
— one word all uses (2005 AP Stylebook change)
Baskin-Robbins
Belle
Mead
best-seller
— hyphenated (2005 AP Stylebook change)
biweekly
(every two weeks)
bimonthly
(every two months)
biennial
(every two years)
bids
— bids are received; contracts are awarded
Blackwells
Mills Road (in Franklin)
boys
bicycle (no apostrophe)
boys
soccer (no apostrophe)
Board
of Education (capitalize when referring to a specific school district)
Breathalyzer
(capitalize trademark)
breath
test (lowercase)
Brick
Yard Road (Cranbury)
Bristol-Myers
Squibb

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C
Cameras:
Canon, Polaroid, Leica, Nikon
Camp
Lejeune
Canon
USA (in South Brunswick)
Capital
Health System, Fuld Campus (Brunswick Avenue in Trenton)
Capital
Health System, Mercer Campus (Bellevue Avenue in Trenton)
cappuccino
cell
phone (2005 AP Stylebook change)
center
fielder — two words
centerline
— one word
CentraState
Medical Center (in Freehold)
Charlie
Brown’s (restaurant chain, note apostrophe S)
child
care (two words, no hyphen in all uses 2005 AP Stylebook change)
citizen
— do not use as a synonym for resident
Cooper
Hospital University Medical Center (in Camden)
COAH
— Council on Affordable Housing, which sets affordable housing obligations for
all New Jersey municipalities under the 1985 Fair Housing Act.
variant
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease — a rare and fatal nerve disease in humans linked
to consumption of beef from cattle afflicted with mad cow disease.
cul-de-sac

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 D
DaimlerChrysler
AG — no space or hyphen
dates
— September 2001 (no comma) but Sept. 11, 2001
DARE
— no periods
Davidsons
Mill Road (in South Brunswick, no apostrophe)
day
care (two words)
day-care
center (hyphenate when used as an adjective)
defibrillator
dekatherm
— unit of measurement for natural gas pricing
Democrat,
Democratic, Democratic Party
detective
— capitalize when used before someone’s name. Don’t abbreviate. dinosaurs —
capitalize the first Latin name, lowercase second: Tyrannosaurus rex
Disneyland
(Calif.)
Disney
World (Fla.)
dived
(not dove for past tense)
Domino’s
Pizza
doo-wop
dot-com
doughnuts
— not donuts
Dow
Jones
downsize
Dr.
Seuss — Theodor Geisel (note only one E in Theodor) 1904-1991. Children’s book
author whose birthday is celebrated every March in schools.
drunken
driver, drunken driving – (not drunk driver, drunk driving)
Dukes
Parkway (Somerset County)
Dunkin’
Donuts

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E
eBay
Ebola
E.
coli (capital E, lowercase c)
Eckerd
Drugs
Econo
Lodge
eeny,
meeny, miney, mo
Eggert
Crossing Road (no S) the street in Lawrence
Eggerts
Crossing (note S in Eggerts) the neighborhood near Eggert Crossing Road
e-mail
Eminem
embarrass
E-ZPass
Excel
— the Microsoft software program has one L.

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F
face-lift
fact
finder
fact-finding
family
court or Family Division of Superior Court
farther
– a physical distance that can be measured. Not interchangeable with further.
fast-food
FedEx
filmmaker
Finnegans
Lane (no apostrophe) in North and South Brunswick
firehouse
firetruck
(despite what Harris spellchecker says)
first-come,
first-served basis
floodplain
folktale
Foodtown
forlorn
(no E)
formalwear
Freon
— (trademark)
Fresh
Ponds Road (note S) in South Brunswick
Forsgate
Country Club — in Monroe
Fuld
— the former Helene Fuld Hospital is now Capital Health System, Fuld campus
fundraising,
fundraiser — now one word all uses. AP Stylebook 2005

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G
Genuardi’s
GameCube
— the Nintendo video game system. One word, capital C.
Game
Boy — two words
girls
soccer (no apostrophe)
Google
a trademark for the search engine
googling
— verb form of Google is lowercase
grade
— third grade, third-grade student, third-grader
grades
A’s B’s C’s etc.
graduating
class — Class of  ’07 (capitalize)
graffiti
grand
jury — always lowercase even when county name precedes it
grass
roots (noun)
grass-roots
(adj.)
gray
– not grey’ (British spelling)
greenbelt
groundbreaking
groundwater
guardrail
ground
zero – lowercase
Guinness
Book of World Records

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H
Half
Acres Road (in Jamesburg) — no hyphen
hair
–  most compound words containing hair are one word, no hyphen.
haircut,
hairdresser, hairdo, hairnet, hairbrush, hairstyle but hair spray is two
words
halfway
harass
Harris
spellchecker — don’t trust it.
HazMat
hero
heroes
Hewlett-Packard
hijab
— Muslim woman’s head scarf
HomeFront
(in Lawrenceville) — capital F, one word
homeowner
homeroom
home
run (two words)
home-school
(verb)
Humvee
Hummer

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I
Indians
— write American Indian, not Native American. (AP Stylebook)
Internet
iPod
— capital P, one word
it’s
— means it is. It’s time you knew this.
its
— possessive form of the neuter pronoun. The computer lost its hard drive.

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J
jack-o’-lantern
J.C.
Penney
Jell-O
judgment
John’s
Law — Authorizes police to impound vehicles of DWI suspects for up to 12 hours
after a DWI arrest
 juvenile
court — Cases involving juveniles are heard in the Family Division of state
Superior Court. Don’t write juvenile court.

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K
karaoke
kindergarten
kindergartners
Kmart
kneepads
Knox-Box
– trademark
Kohl’s
kung
fu (lowercase)

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L
laid
off
layoff
(noun)
lay
off (verb)
lawn
mower
lead
— a metallic element not to be confused with the past tense of to lead (led)
Landaus
— no apostrophe as per store’s request. Located in Princeton.
Land
Rover
La-Z-Boy
liaison
lifelong
Lions
Club (not Lion’s)
Lowe’s
Home Improvement Warehouse
Loews
Cineplex Entertainment
longtime
long-term

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M
mad
cow disease (OK on first reference for bovine spongiform encephalopathy, a brain-wasting
disease in cattle).
mailbox
makeup
— one word for cosmetics
malls
—             Hamilton Marketplace (on Washington Twp. border)
           
            MarketFair (West Windsor)
           
            Mercer Mall (Lawrence)
           
            Nassau Park (West Windsor)
           
            Nassau Pavilion (West Windsor)
           
            Peddler’s Village (Lahaska, Pa.)
           
            Princeton Forrestal Village (Plainsboro)
           
            Quaker Bridge Mall (Lawrence)
Manalapan
Lake  (Jamesburg and Monroe)
MasterCard
— one word, capital C
Master
Plan — capitalize when referring to a specific community’s master plan
McCaffrey’s
McCarter
Theatre
McDonald’s
Medi-vac
Mercer
County Correction Center — located on Route 29 in Titusville
millage
— In Pennsylvania taxes are based on mills. A mill is one one-thousandth
mishap
— do not use this word to refer to a fatal accident
Mitsubishi
M&M’s
— the candy

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N
Nassau
Park (in West Windsor)
National
Guard, a National Guardsman, a guardsman
New
Jersey regions:
           
Central Jersey
           
central New Jersey
           
Jersey Shore
           
North Jersey
           
northern New Jersey
           
South Jersey
           
southern New Jersey
New
Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission (replaced NJ Division of Motor Vehicles)
NJ
Transit
nonprofit
— no hyphen
numbers 
use figures for money and dimensions less than
10. Use words for time and distances less than 10.
           
9 feet
           
8 acres
           
7 pounds
           
6 percent
           
5 cents
           
4 inches
           
3 gallons
           
two miles, 20 miles
           
two minutes, 20 minutes
           
 $1
           
When used to rank items, abbreviate: The No. 1 choice.
nunchaku
(singular)
nunchakus
(plural)
Noor-Ul-Iman
— Muslim school in South Brunswick

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O
occur
occurred
off
of — the word off is sufficient
on
— not needed before the day of the week unless the capitalized
day of the week follows a capitalized title. John went to work Wednesday. Police
Chief Sam     Jones on Wednesday said John went back to work.
online
on-site
opened
— not opened up
organizational
titles capitalized if the name of the town is understood.
           
Manville Borough Council, Borough Council, Manville Police Department, the Police
Department, etc.
out
— generally one word when it is used at the end of a noun. (i.e. checkout, handout)
but two words if used as a verb.
over
— generally refers to spatial relationship. Use more than when referring to
size. (i.e. The plane flew over the city. Salaries increased more than 4 percent).

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P
paparazzi
(plural)
paparazzo
(singular)
parentheses
— avoid when possible by rephrasing since their use jars the reader
Patriots
Theater – located inside War Memorial building (in Trenton)
PlayStation
(one word, capital S)
Play-Doh
Peddler’s
Village — located in Lahaska, Pa.
percent
— always use numerals, i.e., 2 percent raise. Do not hyphenate
Peugeot
physician
assistant (no possessive)
pickup
truck
pierogi
Pilgrim
— capitalize when referring to the Plymouth Rock Pilgrims.
Police
titles — abbreviated before names, just as military titles are. Exceptions are
detective, patrolman, patrolwoman because there is no military equivalent.
PowerPoint
— one word, capital P’s
preschool
Princeton
Forrestal Village — located in Plainsboro
Princeton’s
hospital — the new name is University Medical Center at Princeton
The
Princeton Packet Inc., The Packet
Province
Line Road
PSE&G
— New Jersey’s largest regulated gas and electric delivery utility.
           
A proposed merger between PSE&G and Exelon has been approved by both companies’
shareholders and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,             however,
as of December 2005 decisions were still pending from the U.S. Justice Department,
the Securities and Exchange Commission, and state regulators.)

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Q
Quaker
Bridge Mall
Quakerbridge
Road
Quick
Chek — note only one C in Chek, two words

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R
ratable
referendum,
referendums (AP Stylebook)
Rev.
— always the Rev. Tom Smith, not Rev. Smith.
Rice,
Condoleezza (note two ee’s and two zz’s)
Rite
Aid Pharmacy
Route
1 — does not go through Princeton
Robert’s
Rules of Order (not Roberts)
Robert
Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick
Rural/Metro
Corp. — note slash in the name of this private ambulance company

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S
Sand
Hills Road (South Brunswick)
Shabakunk
Creek (in Lawrence)
school
— most compound words containing school are one word except: school   age,
school bus, school board, school year and school day. Check dictionary.
school
board — lowercase. The Washington school board. But capitalize the proper name:
Washington Township Board of Education.
school
budgets in regional districts: When writing about a regional school district’s
budget remember to explain why the tax rates differ in each sending            
community. i.e. The tax impact is different in each community because of a
state-mandated equalization formula based on the amount of taxable property
in each municipality.
Schwarzenegger,
Arnold
Schwinn
Scout
— uppercase if referring to a member of a Boy Scout or Girl Scout troop.
           
Lowercase if scout refers to someone who is exploring or doing reconnaissance
work.
seat
belt — two words
Seder
Seeing
Eye dog
shamas
— candle used to light others on a menorah
Shabbat
— capitalize. The Jewish Sabbath
shoo-in
— not shoe
ShopRite
— one word capital R
skateboard,
skateboarder
snow
— most compound words containing snow’ are one word, i.e. snowplow,
            
snowdrift, snowstorm, etc. Check dictionary when in doubt.
Social
Security – capitalize
SpongeBob
SquarePants
State
House — Two words, capitalized, when referring to the New Jersey State House.
(An exception to AP Stylebook because New Jersey does not spell it as one word.)
St.
Augustine RC Church
St.
Cecilia’s RC Church
St.
Francis Medical Center — in Trenton.
St.
Gregory the Great Church — in Hamilton
St.
Peter’s University Hospital — in New Brunswick
Stop&Shop
— no space
Student
Council — capitalize when the name of the school is stated or understood.
Super
Fresh
suspects
— are people whose identity or description we know. Do not say police are looking
for the suspect if they have no clues and no description of the thief,            
murder, bank robber, driver, etc. Descriptions of suspects must be complete
(i.e., approximate height, weight, hair color, clothing, birthmarks, scars or
tattoos) and cannot be only based on race, such as a black man.’

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T
tae
kwon do — lowercase Korean self-defense system
taillight
— one word
taps
— the bugle call. Note it is lowercase, no quotation marks, as per 2005 AP Stylebook.
teenager
— one word. (AP Stylebook change)
than
vs. then — Than expresses comparison. Then involves time, the sequence of
events.
that
vs. which
that
restricts and defines. The dog that bit me.(Not all dogs just the one that
bit me). Which adds extra information, and follows a comma. The dog, which
looked about 2 years old, bit me.
that
— never refers to people. The man who died not The man that
died.
theater
— Do not write theatre’ unless it’s spelled that way in a proper name
Thompson
Park – straddles Jamesburg and Monroe
time,
date, place — the specific order information should be provided in a sentence.
           
The meeting will be held at 2 p.m. Aug. 21 in the library.
timeline
time
frame
TiVo
tow
truck
toward
— not towards
tractor-trailer
trick
or treat  trick-or-treater
trick-or-treating

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U
unique
— means one of a kind’ and cannot be redundantly modified with truly or very
up
– check dictionary if unsure whether to hyphenate compound words with up’ that
are used as adjectives. (Verbs are two words). Common examples:
           
grown-up
           
start-up
           
wake-up
           
warm-up
           
backup
           
hookup
           
makeup
U.S.
Patriot Act
use
— not utilize’

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V
Vandeventer
Avenue (Princeton Borough)
Volkswagen
— not wagon with an O
Veterans
Park (in Hamilton Township)
vice
president — no hyphen, capitalize only if used before the name
video
game — two words
videocassette
recorder
videodisc
— one word

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W
Washington
Crossing
water
table
wastewater
Wawa
(only one capital W)
Web
Web
site
Webelo
Wegmans
West
Nile virus (lowercase v in virus)
Westin
Princeton at Forrestal Village (new name for old Marriott in Princeton)
Wetherill
(historic site on Georges Road — note only one H)
wide
— one word when used to form compounds
           
countywide, statewide, townshipwide, nationwide, worldwide
Wiesel,
Elie
wineglass
winemaker
Wiffle
ball — trademark, capital W
Womanspace
— nonprofit agency that provides shelter for domestic violence victims
work
force
workplace
workweek
World
Wide Web

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X
Xbox
(lowercase b, one word)
Xmas
— never use it! (Even in headlines).

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Y
YMCA
yearlong
year-round


years
— 1990s, the ’90s

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Z
Zany
Brainy — toy store

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