The Guardian (uc) style guide (lc)
The Guardian style guide online and as a bonus a PDF of the 1928 style guide. So much fun where do you begin, or is that where does one begin?
ironically
Avoid when what you mean is strangely, coincidentally, paradoxically or amusingly (if you mean them say so, or leave it up to the reader to decide). There are times when ironically is right but too often it is misused.
As Kingsley Amis put it: "The slightest and most banal coincidence or point of resemblance, or even just-perceptible absence of one, unworthy of a single grunt of interest, gets called 'ironical'."
The idiotic "post-ironic", which Amis would be glad he did not live to see, is banned
Posted by stunned to culture at January 08, 2005 05:07 PM