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Full form versus contracted form
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Inflection of abbreviations, contractions, acronyms and loanwords
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Use ‘cannot’ rather than ‘can't’.
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+
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+Genderneutral form
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+Genderneutral form is identical to feminine form.
+For example, write ‘The user … if she …’ rather than:
+ ‘The user … if he …’
+ ‘The user … if she/he …’
+ ‘The user … if he/she …’
+ ‘The user … if s/he …’
+ ‘The user … if the user …’
+ ‘The user … if it …’
+ ‘The user … if one …’
+ ‘One … if one …’
+ ‘… if you …’
+