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naive, naivety
no accents

names
writers should always check unfamiliar names and then write (corr) in notes mode

Nasa
National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Nato
upper and lower

nemesis
an agent of retribution or vengeance, not a synonym for 'enemy'

nerve-racking

nevertheless

newspapers
use italic.
Always The Observer, but the Guardian, the Times, the Independent etc

none the less
three words

no one
no hyphen

north, north east, north west
see compass points: all l/c

Number 10
for Downing Street; not No 10 (except in headlines) or Number Ten




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