If your house style includes accents, make sure that you use them consistently. For example 'paté' and 'emigré' are howlers; they should be pâté and émigré.
And then today I saw this Rick Brookes cartoon in Metro (click on the image for a larger version):
![This Life cartoon, by Rick Brookes](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA1MHpg5LRWOQCwQNe1kcq6yRjSjIWvZNMwgi9GJEYCEISUsWQTHG2Q3PqumTxz8m7UMwiuq_cd_qUdEOdD9-MK0Uy6OgLHgwwuc-5elBCKeAaLJHcputGPif3QsvYC9XQgKdXu9xgQ3Q/s400/cow-pate.png)
(Incidentally, the picture above is actually a screenshot from the free electronic edition of Metro. For me, the main advantage of the e-edition over the print edition is that the text is searchable.)
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