Bob - I’m amazed at this suggestion (all nouns were capitalised)!
I was in the workforce then (early 70s) and also doing (extra) tertiary
studies, and I certainly never encountered it. Was it Australia, or somewhere
else? Or some particular region of Australia, perhaps?
Ros
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On 1 Jul 2016, at 9:06 pm, Bob T <bob.trussler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Many years ago in official or public service English, it was the practice to
capitalise all nouns – not only in the title but in the body text.
Nowadays , this is frowned upon.
It seemed to go out of fashion when Plain English became fashionable. I saw
this happen in the mid-1970s.
On 1 July 2016 at 15:38, Christine Kent <cmkentau@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:cmkentau@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
On Friday, 1 July 2016, Bob T <bob.trussler@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:bob.trussler@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Great idea Howard.
Anything To Avoid The US Style Of Capitalising Every Word In A Title.
Bob T
On 1 July 2016 at 14:24, Howard Silcock <howard.silcock@xxxxxxxxx <>> wrote:
What are the rules you've been told about which words should be capitalised
in titles? Many usage books now favour minimal capitalisation - where you
only capitalise the first word and any proper nouns or other words normally
capitalised - and I've been following this recently. However, some people
still want to use the older scheme where you capitalise only "major" words -
though there seems to be different ideas about which words are "major".
I decided to write a macro that I could run to apply this type of
capitalisation and tried to make a list of all the words that wouldn't be
capitalised. This is my initial list:
"the", "a", "an", "of", "and", "or", "but", "to", "is", "for", "from",
"with", "after", "before", "if", "in", "on", "over", "under", "by", "that",
"which", "who", "until", "till", "your", "my", "his", "her", "hers", "their",
"as", "so".
I think some people want to capitalise all verbs, so I'd have to remove "is",
but that looks silly to me. Anyone got any other ideas?
Howard
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