ID card, ID
ill—Compounds formed with ill are hyphenated before a noun, open after a noun: ill-fitting garment, the garment was ill fitting, ill-advised decision, the decision was ill advised.
impact—a noun, not a verb.
Inc., Co., etc.—Usually eliminated in running text; when included, do not set off a with a comma: Curtis Screw Co., Moog Inc.
include—Use include when what follows is only part of the total: The price includes breakfast. The zoo includes hippopotamuses and rhinoceroses.
initials—When two or more initials are used before a name, use periods and insert a space between each: E. H. Butler Library, H. W. Fowler, W. E. B. Du Bois. No periods or spaces are used for people commonly referred to by their initials only: FDR, JFK, LBJ, MLK.
inpatient
in-service
inter- (prefix)—Generally closed, no hyphen: interrelated, intercontinental, intergenerational. (See prefixes and suffixes.)
intra- (prefix)—Generally closed, no hyphen: intranet, intracranial. (See prefixes and suffixes.)
italicized words—When italicized words that are singular in form are used in the plural, set the s or es in roman type: “She bought two Chicago Tribunes and three Milwaukee Journals.” (10) (See titles, composition and punctuation)
italics or quotation marks? See titles, composition, this section.
J
Jr., Sr., II, IV, etc.—Do not set off with commas: Martin Luther King Jr., Pope John Paul II, Benjamin O. Davis Sr.
judgment (not judgement)
The Juilliard School (not Julliard)
K
kick off (v.), kickoff (n., adj.): The event will kick off the week. The event is a kickoff to the week’s activities. The kickoff event went smoothly.
Kleinhans Music Hall
(10) Chicago Manual of Style, 14th edition (1993), 6.14
