[mb-users] Capitalisation or not

[joan WHITTAKER]

A library research department is good enough for me.

To summarise, any word that starts a sentence, even though it has an 
apostrophe dropping the first letter, ought to be capitalised.

However, where the word occurs in the body of a sentence, then it should be 
lower case.

Thanks everybody for your input on this.  Should this go to an RFV or should 
we just amend the Wiki.

Joan
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Moran" <david at waveproductions.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 2:42 AM
Subject: Re: [mb-users] Capitalisation or not


> Dave Smey wrote:
>>> (Indeed, a good library database would be an easy source
>>> to investigate.)
>>>
>>>
>> And so I did.  New York Public Library Research Division always
>> capitalizes the first word of titles, even if it is "'Round" or "'Cross."
>>
>> Also looked at "'Round" at Columbia University - same thing.
>>
>> -bklynd
>>
> I would have to agree with this train of thought. The first word of a 
> title is always capitalized. Also, you typically don't capitalize 
> prepositions. So in any other situation, outside of it being the first 
> word, "'around" would be lowercase. Therefore, "'round" would be lowercase 
> in any other spot.
>
> -Coeus
>
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