Questions tagged [capitalization]
This tag is for questions about the use of capital letters in writing.
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Are there other proposed translations of "aelfheres" in Beowulf than a name?
Am looking at the online Beowulf site, and wonder about "aelfheres" that is translated as a name.
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WIGlaf wæs haten, Weoxstanes sunu,
leoflic lindwiga, leod Scylfinga,
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Capitalisation (or not?!) of 'von' and 'de' at start of sentence after full stop [duplicate]
I am proofreading texts at the moment that feature several people with a 'von' or a 'de' in their surnames, which are generally always lower case. However, the author has decided to keep these lower ...
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"Romantic" (likewise "Romanticism") historically always capitalised?
In contrast to e.g. "liberalism" and "modernism" — which have likewise referred to people with common intellectual identities — it is convention to capitalise "Romanticism&...
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Is it proper to capitalize the scientific method?
I am in the process of writing a book and I am making a lot of references to the scientific method. Is it appropriate (necessary) to capitalize references to the scientific method? As funny as that ...
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Adjectives derived from proper nouns are not always capitalized [duplicate]
I have had a hard time teaching the rule that proper adjectives are capitalized on the Continent (one student even proudly declaimed that proper adjectives just don't exist in England). I taught this ...
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Should "pandemic" be capitalized when referring to "the pandemic"?
Writing about Covid-19, does the noun "pandemic" become capitalized?
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Capitalization and Use of Acronyms? [duplicate]
When examining algorithms like the Decision Tree Classifier, should it be capitalized as "Decision Tree Classifier (DTC)" or written in lowercase as "decision tree classifier (DTC)"...
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Shortening multi-word proper nouns to one word, kept capitalized [duplicate]
I was reading the Wikipedia article for Joe Arridy and near the bottom it mentions an organization called "Friends of Joe Arridy", and then instead of restating the entire proper noun, it's ...
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gum arabic - capitalized or not?
Should it be gum Arabic or gum arabic in a scientific article? Why? Is there a rule in the Chicago Manual of Style for this case?
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Are names of chemicals not proper nouns?
I notice that people often use "gold" and "diamond" in lower case. Yet as far as I see it these are all "proper names" of an abstract idea and really ought to be ...
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Is it ok to start sentences with quotes with lower case when lower case is important for meaning? [closed]
Is it ok to start sentences with quotes with lower case when lower case is important for meaning?
For example
"hope" (feeling) starts with lower case, but "Hope" (name) starts ...
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In the sentence “ "" is used to represent an empty string in programming languages” should we capitalize the “i” in “is”, and why or why not?
In the sentence:
"" is used to represent an empty string in programming languages.
Should we capitalize i in is, and why or why not?
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In a title, do I capitalize "on" in the prepositional phrase "on time"?
The title of my work may well be "Quietly Delivered on Time". Is "on" here just treated as any other preposition, despite it being part and parcel of the prepositional phrase? The ...
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What is proper punctuation & capitalization for the first sentence of a block quotation if only the 2nd half of sentence from the source is included?
Should an ellipsis be used at the beginning of a block quote, in which the first sentence of the multi sentence quote is only quoting half (the 2nd half) of the original quoted sentence?
In other ...
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Should "the" always be capitalised if it is part of a proper name?
In brief, which of the following is correct? Alfred is fighting against a villain known as "The Penguin".
Alfred punched the Penguin in the face.
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Alfred punched The Penguin in the face....
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