[mb-users] re: Capitalization or not

[Tom Hull]

Chris Bransden wrote:
> i prefer 'round Midnight.
> 
> there must be a 'proper' way to do it, but i've no idea where/who to ask.

I've never seen it not capitalized "'Round Midnight", either as an album
title or as a song -- probably among the ten most recorded jazz songs
ever. The general rule is you always capitalize the first letter of a
title. Haven't checked the guidelines lately, but that's what it said
when I wrote the first draft.

> On 28/08/06, Dave Smey <autodave at davesmey.com> wrote:
> 
>> Having peeked at the guidelines, I have to say that I prefer
>>
>> 'Round Midnight
>>
>> over
>>
>> 'round Midnight.
>>
>> While I'm sympathetic to the logic of small-r, I think the result looks
>> unreasonably fussy.  And the more I think about it, it makes more 
>> sense to
>> think of these as words in a vernacular dialect, rather than contractions
>> of the "proper" english.
>>
>> -bklynd

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