New & Revised

Updated entries revised 2/27/13

ADDITIONS Ashkenazi: NGS preferred adjective (2/27/13) DEEPSEA CHALLENGE, CHALLENGER: NGS prefers all caps and italic for project name and vessel (11/12/12) Romany, Romanies: NGS preferred usage for Gypsy (8/2/11) Tea Party: NGS preference is to capitalize (9/23/11)

REVISIONS ACADEMIC DEGREES: Added note to not include honorary degree titles before or after names (10/1/12) bathyscaph: NGS preferred spelling, not capped (2/27/13) CREDITS: Added NGM Staff: uppercase "S" in Staff (10/1/12) ELLIPSIS: Revised entry to specify use of ellipsis mark, not three separate dots (10/1/12) Gypsy, gypsy: NGS preferred usage is now Romany, Romanies (8/2/11) Koran: added Quran as acceptable alternate spelling (10/1/12) Letters of the Alphabet: letters in math equations are italic (8/5/11) MONEY: revised hyphen policy in short adjective forms (9/23/11) Risk Takers: For NGM 2013 series, use Risk Takers (10/2/12) SHIPS AND BOATS: Added note about decommissioned ships do not use abbreviations such as U.S.S. (3/2/11) smartphone: NGS preferred is one word (10/1/12) souk, suq: preferred spelling is souk (11/12/12) south, southern: added South Sudan (2/18/11) SCIENTIFIC NOMENCLATURE: Include the scientist's name with genus and species name only if relevant or for specialized publications (11/12/12) Walmart: now preferred spelling of company and stores (4/7/11) war: capitalized War in Persian Gulf War, Gulf War (1/13/11)