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half

Can be either plural or singular; "half the chocolates were eaten" and "half the food was eaten."

Hassidic

Not Hasidic, Chasidic, or Chassidic.

Hawaii, Hawaiian

It is more correct to use Hawaiʻi, using the okina, however the official state name was anglicized in the process of becoming a part of the USA, and is the more common usage. When doing a story about native Hawaiʻians, however, prefer their spelling.

hay fever

No hyphen.

headache

Avoid use as a synonym of difficulties, problems.

headed

Avoid. Use is heading.

headline notes

The Wikinews Style Guide on headlines is more complete and is canonical.

• Omit needless words.

  Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell. Strunk

heads of state

Not always the head of government.

Generally, Title Name of Country, with subsequent mention as the Title.

health care

Two words as a noun, hyphenated when used adjectivally.

heaven

And hell - lowercased.

heavenly bodies

Capitalize the proper names of heavenly bodies, but not a descriptor if any. e.g. Halley's comet. Lowercase adjectives lunar, solar, and phases of the moon, but capitalize Martian both adjectivally and as a noun.

homosexual

See gay.

honorific

See Social titles

The terms doctor, mister, mistress, miss, monsieur, misters and messieurs, and sir are common social titles used before names in news articles. Formal journalism uses the appropriate title before the surname after the initial full name use. "Joseph Estrada, ousted President of the Philippines, lost a second bid for the office. Mr Estrada..."

honours, honors

People are appointed to or receive national honours; never made, given, or awarded. Certain ranks of nobility (in the United Kingdom, Peers and above) are created, not appointed, &c. Omit honours and decorations after names.

however

Avoid use where possible, as it is usually verbosity. When used in the sense nevertheless, always requires a following comma (and leading comma when inserted into a sentence.) Note the comma in the extended clause: "However many times I say this, there are people who ignore it."

hyphens

Use hyphens (-, not – nor —) in compound adjectives and nouns, in names, and in numbers such as phone numbers. They can be used in "spelling out" a word for emphasis (j-o-u-r-n-a-l-i-s-m). General rule of hyphenation: Use to improve understanding.

Usually run together prefixes rather than hyphenate, except where the last letter of the prefix is the same as the first letter of the word to which it attaches. Thus postwar, nonconformist, but re-establish and pre-empt.

Do not use dangling hyphens with stand-alone words for emphasis, but do use them with prefixes. e.g. full and part-time, but pre- and post-war economies.

See also: dashes.