Capitalizing and pluralizing official titles
Problem with capitalizing and pluralizing official titles. For example:
He is a State Governor (or a state governor; a State governor; a state Governor: a governor of a state; Governor of a State?) in Nigeria.
She is a deputy registrar (or is it a Deputy Registrar?) in my university. Many Deputy Registrars (or is it deputy registrars?) attended the conference.
Some university Registrars (or is it university registrars) have criticized the policy.
Many Presidents (or is it presidents) came in person. Others were represented by their Vice Presidents (vice presidents?)
Offices, titles, and positions such as president, king, emperor, pope, bishop, abbot, executive director are common nouns and therefore should be in lower case when used generically: Mitterrand was the French president or There were many presidents at the meeting. They are capitalized only in the following cases:
When followed by a person's name to form a title, i.e. when they can be considered to have become part of the name: President Nixon, not president Nixon
When a title is used to refer to a specific and obvious person as a substitute for their name, e.g. the Queen, not the queen, referring to Elizabeth II
When the correct formal title is treated as a proper name (e.g. King of France; it is correct to write Louis XVI was King of France but Louis XVI was the French king)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Capital_letters#Proper_names
jayles the unwoven Oct-25-2015
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Shouldn't it be, "OK, genius - good luck!" Or, "OK, genius. Good luck!"
Sorry, I couldn't resist. I do value your website greatly! Am I right about the comma after OK?
windwarner Mar-20-2019
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While I'm at it, where the heck do I put the question mark? Should it be like this: "...good luck!"?. But wait. I need another question mark:
Should it be like this: "...good luck!"??
Ha! Punctuation is funny!
windwarner Mar-20-2019
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I am just starting to study at the university and I have not had such problems yet. Perhaps because we are newbies, the professor treats us condescendingly, but no one pays attention to capital letters.
AlexTerry Jun-14-2022
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Now I thought again and came to an interesting conclusion this semester, we need to pass an essay on various theories in psychology, when I looked at the essays of my fellow students, I saw that about half write with a capital letter, and half do not, and the professor does not make any comments . Maybe it depends on your school. At first I did not pay attention to this, because I was very busy and I did not have time to prepare an essay in a quality manner, I used the services of https://essayreviewexpert.com/review/essaypro/ and then just handed it over to my professor. Later, when we had a discussion at the lecture about the quality of our work, I drew attention to this. Perhaps you have a strict professor and this matters more, or you just want to study this issue well)
AlexTerry Jun-14-2022
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