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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