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Victor Nazarov
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| Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 5:10 pm
Post subject: Writing English Titles |
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I'm not a native speaker, but regulary use english in written form. I'd
like to reveal the rules fo writing english titles and names.
American writers seems to write every word in the title starting from
the cappital letter. But more stylish texts usually write every word
starting from cappital letter, except prepositions and articles. So What
are the exact rules? There are long prepositions like between that I
feel like writing with the cappital letter.
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Victor Nazarov
http://vir.comtv.ru/
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Lars Eighner
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| Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 10:35 pm
Post subject: Re: Writing English Titles |
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In our last episode,
<dkl6cu$1agi$1@news.comcor-tv.ru>,
the lovely and talented Victor Nazarov
broadcast on alt.usage.english:
| Quote: | I'm not a native speaker, but regulary use english in written form. I'd
like to reveal the rules fo writing english titles and names.
American writers seems to write every word in the title starting from
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You mean "starting with."
| Quote: | the cappital letter. But more stylish texts usually write every word
starting from cappital letter, except prepositions and articles. So What
are the exact rules? There are long prepositions like between that I
feel like writing with the cappital letter.
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Editors have differing policies, but these rules will serve, in
general.
1. Always capitalize the first word and the last word, no matter
what they are.
2. Capitalize every other *important* word.
Okay, what words are not important? Prepositions, and
the conjunctions "and" and "or" are generally regarded as
unimportant. Some editors capitalize any word with five
letters or more even if it a preposition (toward, etc.).
(Librarians, and perhaps others, composing catalogues
traditionally capitalize only the first word and any
proper nouns that may be included in the title.)
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Lars Eighner usenet@larseighner.com http://www.larseighner.com/
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others
to live as one wishes to live. --Oscar Wilde |
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Don Phillipson
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| Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 10:47 pm
Post subject: Re: Writing English Titles |
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"Victor Nazarov" <vir@comtv.ru> wrote in message
news:dkl6cu$1agi$1@news.comcor-tv.ru...
| Quote: | American writers seems to write every word in the title starting from
the cappital letter. But more stylish texts usually write every word
starting from cappital letter, except prepositions and articles. So What
are the exact rules?
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This is an aspect of punctuation (not grammar or syntax)
thus dealt with in style books and publishers' house rules
-- which are "rules" only within the house. If your publisher
offers no rules or recommendations, you can use capital
letters in titles any way you like.
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Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)
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Ted Schuerzinger
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| Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 1:46 am
Post subject: Re: Writing English Titles |
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Somebody claiming to be Victor Nazarov <vir@comtv.ru> wrote in
news:dkl6cu$1agi$1@news.comcor-tv.ru:
| Quote: | I'm not a native speaker, but regulary use english in written form.
I'd like to reveal the rules fo writing english titles and names.
American writers seems to write every word in the title starting from
the cappital letter. But more stylish texts usually write every word
starting from cappital letter, except prepositions and articles. So
What are the exact rules? There are long prepositions like between
that I feel like writing with the cappital letter.
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The rule I once read is that prepositions five letters or longer should be
capitalized (note that there's only one P in "capital"); prepositions four
letters or shorter remain in lowercase.
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Ted <fedya at bestweb dot net>
Oh Marge, anyone can miss Canada, all tucked away down there....
--Homer Simpson |
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