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Capitalizing Kinship Names and the Like - CMOS Shop Talk
| Capitalizing Kinship Names and the Like - CMOS Shop Talk CMOS Shop Talk From the Chicago Manual of...Manual of Style Contact Join Capitalizing Kinship Names and the Like Chicago Manual / May 16, 2023...darling. Whether to capitalize one of these words depends at least partly on the answer to two questions... |
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| FAQ Item Capitalization Q. If etc. falls at the end of a title of a work, should it be capitalized ...or left lowercased? The argument against capitalization is that the et part of the abbreviation is a...should be capitalized as Etc. A. I like your reasoning, especially if the word is important to the title... |
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| FAQ Item Capitalization Q. If the word “god” is capitalized only when it is a proper name, why...would you capitalize it in the expression “Oh my god!” unless you know that the speaker is referring to...your question suggests, a capital G is normally reserved for literal references to the supreme being... |
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| FAQ Item Capitalization Q. CMOS 13.7 recommends silently correcting typographic errors while...retaining capitalization of older works. I am writing a book with numerous quotations from archival...rules about capitalizing empire following proper names, such as “the Roman empire.” Is the text old... |
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| FAQ Item Capitalization Q. There is much inconsistency regarding the capitalization of the term... |
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| FAQ Item Capitalization Q. Is “professor emerita” capitalized when used as a part of the signature... |
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| FAQ Item Capitalization Q. Are English translations of Native American terms for place-names...treated like proper nouns and capitalized? For example, would you refer to Dook’o’oosłííd (Diné for...): Dook’o’oosłííd (Diné for “gleaming summit”). We’d capitalize it (and drop the quotation marks) only if... |
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| FAQ Item Capitalization Q. I am an editor of a nineteenth-century writer’s manuscripts. We are...trying to determine whether we should regularize certain capitalizations, as they are not consistent... |
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| FAQ Item Capitalization Q. Is it okay to capitalize Modernist when speaking of the twentieth... |
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| FAQ Item Capitalization Q. CMOS specifies that academic degrees are lowercased when referred to...generically. I infer from the converse that specific degrees then are capitalized. However, I am...be a specific degree? What is an example of a degree that would be capitalized? A. Capitalize degrees... |
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