Ros,
That style of capitalising all 'important' nouns was used in the Australian
Govt in the 1970s and earlier.
It was going out of fashion when I was there at that time, as plain English
was arriving.
It was a fun time:
- Suits and ties were going out for men, slacks were allowed for women.
- All staff stopping work and standing when the director walked into the
office was out.
- Tea ladies trundled through the office twice a day.
- Flextime was just coming in.
- Computers arrived after I left. Strangely, problems with the computer
system were often blamed on me.
I am not making this up.
Howard,
Login to http://www.inc.com/ and read any heading.
Look at almost any USA website.
www.nytimes.com/pages/todayspaper/index.html uses a lot of leading
capitals, but lower case for small words.
Hmmph
Bob T
On 2 July 2016 at 07:26, Ros Byrne <ros.byrne@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> wrote:
On Friday, 1 July 2016, Bob T <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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