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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 &mdash;) 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.