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r.p.mcmurphy
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| Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 2:56 pm
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When referring to a care home in a letter of correspondence, should it be
capitalised? i.e. 'Care Home'? or not as in 'care home'?
Thanks
steve
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Tony Mountifield
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| Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 2:56 pm
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In article <433a5aac$0$49809$ed2e19e4@ptn-nntp-reader04.plus.net>,
r.p.mcmurphy <redleadertwoSPACE@SPACEntlworld.com> wrote:
| Quote: | When referring to a care home in a letter of correspondence, should it be
capitalised? i.e. 'Care Home'? or not as in 'care home'?
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Only when part of the name, e.g.
"Which care home is your mother in?"
"The Silver Birches Care Home."
Cheers
Tony
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Nick Wagg
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| Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 4:00 pm
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"r.p.mcmurphy" <redleadertwoSPACE@SPACEntlworld.com> wrote in message
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| Quote: | When referring to a care home in a letter of correspondence, should it be
capitalised? i.e. 'Care Home'? or not as in 'care home'?
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Only if it is used as part of its name, assuming we are talking
about English, not German.
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r.p.mcmurphy
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| Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 4:00 am
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Tony Mountifield wrote:
| Quote: | In article <433a5aac$0$49809$ed2e19e4@ptn-nntp-reader04.plus.net>,
r.p.mcmurphy <redleadertwoSPACE@SPACEntlworld.com> wrote:
When referring to a care home in a letter of correspondence, should
it be capitalised? i.e. 'Care Home'? or not as in 'care home'?
Only when part of the name, e.g.
"Which care home is your mother in?"
"The Silver Birches Care Home."
Cheers
Tony
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thanks. Im having a bit of a disagreement with my other half about what
should be capitalised and what should not be. Ie she says that if you refer
to a manager in a business, then the word manager should also be
capitalised. Where can i find guidance...on the WWW?
Thanks
steve |
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Molly Mockford
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| Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 5:30 am
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At 23:00:30 on Wed, 28 Sep 2005, r.p.mcmurphy
<redleadertwoSPACE@SPACEntlworld.com> wrote in
<433b1280$0$15072$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net>:
| Quote: | thanks. Im having a bit of a disagreement with my other half about what
should be capitalised and what should not be. Ie she says that if you refer
to a manager in a business, then the word manager should also be
capitalised. Where can i find guidance...on the WWW?
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I can't advise on a web site specialising in capitalisation, I'm afraid
- try a Google search.
However, your initial "thanks" should have been "Thanks", and I strongly
disagree that "manager" should be capitalised unless it's part of a
particular job title (e.g. "Finance Manager" or "Advertising Manager").
Certainly not in a case where it is a general terms such as "line
manager".
If you will forgive my saying so, it's really more important that you
check up on the rules of punctuation.
"Im" -> I'm
"Ie" -> I.e. (only capitalised when starting a sentence, otherwise i.e.
- and it's not generally good grammar in English to start a sentence
with "I.e." anyway)
"Where can i find guidance" -> Where can I find guidance
Are you of German extraction? I ask because it's typical in German to
capitalise all nouns, while not capitalising the first person singular
the way we do in English - and German tends not to use apostrophes to
indicate missing letters (or possessive) in the way that English does.
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Molly Mockford
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deserve neither liberty nor safety - Benjamin Franklin
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Nick Wagg
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| Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 2:23 pm
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"Molly Mockford" <nospamnobody@mollymockford.me.uk> wrote in message
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Are you of German extraction?
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His name is McMurphy...
....OK so it would be still possible, just. |
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r.p.mcmurphy
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| Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 2:27 pm
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Molly Mockford wrote:
| Quote: | At 23:00:30 on Wed, 28 Sep 2005, r.p.mcmurphy
redleadertwoSPACE@SPACEntlworld.com> wrote in
433b1280$0$15072$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net>:
thanks. Im having a bit of a disagreement with my other half about
what should be capitalised and what should not be. Ie she says that
if you refer to a manager in a business, then the word manager
should also be capitalised. Where can i find guidance...on the WWW?
I can't advise on a web site specialising in capitalisation, I'm
afraid - try a Google search.
However, your initial "thanks" should have been "Thanks", and I
strongly disagree that "manager" should be capitalised unless it's
part of a particular job title (e.g. "Finance Manager" or
"Advertising Manager"). Certainly not in a case where it is a general
terms such as "line manager".
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ooo, thanks!
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If you will forgive my saying so, it's really more important that you
check up on the rules of punctuation.
"Im" -> I'm
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I'm dyslexic, and to save time, I often rely on the spell checker to sort
out capitalistions and spelling errors for me.
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"Ie" -> I.e. (only capitalised when starting a sentence, otherwise
i.e. - and it's not generally good grammar in English to start a
sentence with "I.e." anyway)
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that was the spell checkers fault! it automaticaly capitalised it for me.
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"Where can i find guidance" -> Where can I find guidance
Are you of German extraction?
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No, but strangly enough, my other half is!
I ask because it's typical in German to
| Quote: | capitalise all nouns, while not capitalising the first person singular
the way we do in English - and German tends not to use apostrophes to
indicate missing letters (or possessive) in the way that English does.
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John of Aix
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| Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 3:06 am
Post subject: Re: Capitalise? |
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r.p.mcmurphy wrote:
| Quote: | Tony Mountifield wrote:
In article <433a5aac$0$49809$ed2e19e4@ptn-nntp-reader04.plus.net>,
r.p.mcmurphy <redleadertwoSPACE@SPACEntlworld.com> wrote:
When referring to a care home in a letter of correspondence, should
it be capitalised? i.e. 'Care Home'? or not as in 'care home'?
Only when part of the name, e.g.
"Which care home is your mother in?"
"The Silver Birches Care Home."
Cheers
Tony
thanks. Im having a bit of a disagreement with my other half about
what should be capitalised and what should not be. Ie she says that
if you refer to a manager in a business, then the word manager should
also be capitalised. Where can i find guidance...on the WWW?
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I think the same case applies as for 'care home'. If 'manager' is a job
title, and not merely a position in a company hierarchy, then it should
be
capitalised, as in General Manager. But I appreciate the problem
as I live in France where the rules are not at all the same and I am
often called upon to translate things. I too do a bit of head scratching
over this. Perhaps we should adopt the German system and capitalise all
nouns, as was pretty much the case in the 18th century it seems to me
(or generally anarchic at least) |
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