[Forum] RE: Trademarks and Capitalization

Marking individual letters in italics gets to be a pain (I know of a trademark that's partly uppercase roman and partly lowercase italic, and I hate to use it anywhere). I'd choose the uppercase letters as the least of the evils. Could you spell out the term as a list? Something like this: The

[Forum] Uppercase Universities?

I know I've seen the answer somewhere, but I can't find it now. When listing two, do you uppercase Universities: ... by taking classes at both Columbia and New York Universities... Thanks.

[Forum] Ancient Egypt; uppercase?

I can't seem to find out if Ancient Egypt is indeed uppercase. i've looked at other eras but this one isn't included or maybe my search is at fault...

[Forum] RE: capitalizing the names of corporate teams

Hard to say without specifics, but offhand no caps. In my experience this is much more of a political decision than an editorial one. Everybody wants to be an Uppercase Team! If you have cute names for all your teams then by all means uppercase them and pray nobody outside the company ever sees

[Forum] RE: Spelling out the year as noun and adjective

[quote='UserTK' pid='10559' dateline='1369297862'] Also, why can't a sentence start with a numeral? What if it makes the most sense? [/quote] I feel the same way, not only about the occasional instance of a date or numeral but also in many cases with uppercase abbreviations (I forget CMOS's pre

[Forum] RE: No.

I concur with UTK. Why would they be uppercase?

[Forum] RE: capitalization

[url=http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/16/ch08/ch08_sec001.html]CMoS 8.1 Chicago’s preference for the “down” style [/url] [quote] (In certain nonacademic contexts—e.g., a press release—such terms as president may be capitalized.) [/quote] I take this to mean press releases and marketing mate

[Forum] ... chicken Parmesan, veal Parmesan, eggplant Parmesan...

MW Collegiate says to uppercase [i]Parmesan[/i]. The restaurant features eggplant Parmesan. I love veal Parmesan. I hate chicken Parmesan. Does the uppercase “P” throw off the visual balance in said phrases? Should it be “eggplant parmesan,” “chicken parmesan,” and so forth? Or is the rea

[Forum] RE: Shouldn't this be uppercase Continental

Ask CMOS. I usually start with the assumption that they know what they're doing. If you're right, they will admit it.

[Forum] RE: capitalization of "web" as abbreviation of World-Wide Web

I think it looks old-fashioned uppercase, so I'm glad to see it go down.