The Associated Press Stylebook: 2022-2024 by The Associated Press

Author:The Associated Press
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Associated Press
Published: 2022-08-01T04:00:00+00:00

web Short form of World Wide Web, it is a part of the internet that enables the distribution of image-rich content and information. The web is not the same as the internet, but is a subset; other applications, such as email, exist on the internet. Also, website, webcam, webcast, webfeed, webmaster, webpage. But web address, web browser. See internet.

web browser Software for viewing and interacting with websites on a computer or another device.

website Also, webcam, webcast, webpage, webfeed, the web.

Webster’s New World College Dictionary See dictionaries.

WeChat Messaging service owned by Chinese tech giant Tencent. Popular mostly in mainland China and known as Weixin in Chinese. Notable for combining functions and services that are traditionally separated elsewhere. WeChat offers basic chat features such as instant messaging and calling, and hosts group chats where users can discuss topics like sports, technology, social issues, investments and celebrities. WeChat also lets people pay for movies, food delivery, public transit and utility bills, donate to charities, and split restaurant checks with friends.

WeChat lacks end-to-end encryption found in Signal, Meta’s WhatsApp and Messenger and Apple’s iMessages. Chinese dissidents and activists have long suspected that authorities are able to monitor what they have been saying on the services. The company has denied keeping a record of user chats.

weeklong, weekslong One word as an adjective.

weights Use figures: The baby weighed 9 pounds, 7 ounces. She had a 9-pound, 7-ounce boy.

West, Western, west, western Use West to describe the 13-state region as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau that is broken into two divisions. Capitalize Western as an adjective describing the region.

The eight Mountain states are Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming.

The five Pacific states are Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington.

Capitalize Western for the film and book genre and certain genres of music: Western swing. But lowercase in country-western to avoid mixed cases. Capitalize Old West when referring to the 19th-century American frontier.

Capitalize West and Western when referring to the cultural and political region constituting the Western Hemisphere and Europe.

For directions, west and western. See directions and regions; Midwest; Northeast; South for the bureau’s other regional breakdowns. See country music.

Western Hemisphere The continents of North and South America, and the islands near them.

It frequently is subdivided as follows:

Caribbean The islands from the tip of Florida to the continent of South America, plus French Guiana, Guyana and Suriname on the northeastern coast of South America.

Major island elements are Cuba, Hispaniola (the island shared by the Dominican Republic and Haiti), Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and the West Indies islands.

Central America The narrow strip of land between Mexico and Colombia. Located there are Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama.

Latin America The area of the Americas south of the United States where Romance languages (those derived from Latin) are dominant. It applies to most of the region south of the United States except areas with a British heritage: the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and various islands in the West Indies. Suriname, the former Dutch Guiana, is an additional exception.

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