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1. Using This Manual
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3. New & Revised
4. Exceptions
5. Sources
6. Style Committee
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L'Étoile, Place de l'Étoile
L.A., Los Angeles
La Salle, Sieur de
Labor Party, Labour Party
Labradorian
Lady
lake bed
Lakota
land
Land Cruiser, Land Rover
land of the midnight sun
landfill
LANGUAGE AND DIALECT
Lao, Laotian
large
larger than
last
last, latest, past
late
Late Horizon
late, early
late, latter, former
Latin America, Latin American
LATIN AMERICAN SURNAMES
Latino, Chicano, Hispanic
LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE
Latter-day Saint, Mormon
law
lay, lie
leafcutter ant, leafcutter
leaped
leatherbound
leatherneck
LECTURES
left bank, left-bank
legal cases
legionary, legionnaire
legislative, legislature
leper
less, fewer
Letters
LETTERS OF THE ALPHABET
Liberal Party
lieutenant governor
life-size
lighted, lit
like
lilliputian
Linear A, Linear B script
Lion-Hearted, Richard the
Lipizzan
LITERARY WORKS
little
little red book
Living Buddha
LM
lobsters
local-language editions
logon, log on
long
Long Count
Long March
long walk
long wave
longitude
Lord
Lost Colony
low
lower
Lower Egypt, Upper Egypt
lower forty-eight, lower 48
Loyalist
Ltd
Lucasfilm Ltd.
Lunar New Year