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race
lc white, black, as noun or adj.
Do not use 'ethnic' to mean black or Asian people, and avoid 'immigrants', a word that is now loaded with negative meanings, unless that is exactly what you are writing about.
Just as in the Balkans or anywhere else, African peoples should be called just that, rather than 'ethnic groups' or 'tribes'.
Do not refer to a person's colour unless it has a specific bearing on the story. Say 'African-Caribbean' rather than 'Afro-Caribbean'rack
torture;
wrack seaweed;
nerve-racked, sea-wrack racket
all senses, including tennis Radio 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Live, 6 Music raft
what Huck Finn and Jim were on when they floated down the river; 'a raft of measures' is both meaningless and a cliche. Avoid ranks
for police, army and navy, spell out in full first time, then just use the surname rayon re/re-
do not hyphenate unless it looks ugly (so re-use not reuse); provides a double 'e' (re-examine not reexamine); or could be mistaken for another word (i.e The Happy Mondays have re-formed, but are unlikely to have reformed, speaking of which...) reform
means to change for the better. Thus, while the Great Reform Act is, at a push, correct, a new set of education reforms is not - or not necessarily so refute
is not a synonym for deny or rebut. It means to disprove Register Office
(not Registry) republican
see loyalist (although only in terms of capitalisation) Revelation
last book in the New Testament: not Revelations Reverend
(see ecclesiastical titles) Rheims rock'n'roll r'n'b
is what Bo Diddley plays:
R&B is the stuff of Beyonc Rolls-Royce Roman Catholic
The Archbishop of Birmingham, Cardiff, Glasgow, Liverpool, St Andrew's, Southwark and Westminster: insert Roman Catholic only to avoid confusion, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Aberdeen, Argyll, Lancaster, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Shrewsbury (for all of which there are Anglican bishops). Unless obviously Roman Catholic from the text, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Brentwood, Clifton, Dunkeld, Galloway, Hexham and Newcastle, Leeds, Menevia, Middlesbrough, Motherwell, Northampton, Nottingham, Paisley and Salford.
In British setting use Roman Catholic in describing Roman Catholic organisations and individuals and wherever an Anglican could argue ambiguity (eg 'the Catholic Church'). But Catholic is enough in most overseas contexts (eg. Ireland, France, Italy, Latin America). Romania royal
lc at all mentions, including the royal family Royal Institute of International Affairs
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