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On this page:

• Dame
• dashes
• dates and times
• degree class
• departmental
• department, school and faculty names
• Diamond
• dos and dont's

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Dame

See honorary titles

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dashes

See en-dashes

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dates and times

Use 25 July, not July 25 or 25th July. Don't abbreviate the month. Omit the day of the week and year, unless needed for clarity, in which case write out the year in full:

Use am and pm, not the 24-hour clock. Use full stops not colons as separators.

Note there is no space between the number and am or pm.

Avoid vague time references such as will be online soon and some time next year.

See also numbers, centuries and ranges

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degree class

First, 2:1, 2:2, 3rd. Use First, never 1st. Use a capital when referring to a First, but lower case for first-class degree. Never use first degree, as this can be confused with an undergraduate degree.

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departmental

Try to use the name of the department instead, if you can:

If you can't be specific, use 'department open days' instead.

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department, school and faculty names

See school, department and faculty names

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Diamond

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dos and don'ts

No apostrophe in dos.