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  2. Opening ceremony - Wikipedia

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    An opening ceremony, grand opening, or ribbon-cutting ceremony marks the official opening of a newly constructed location or the start of an event. [1] Opening ceremonies at significant events such as the Olympic Games , FIFA World Cup , and the Rugby World Cup might involve thousands of participants and be watched worldwide.

  3. Capitalization in English - Wikipedia

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    Generally acronyms and initialisms are capitalized, e.g., "NASA" or "SOS". Sometimes, a minor word such as a preposition is not capitalized within the acronym, such as "WoW" for "World of Warcraft". In some British English style guides, only the initial letter of an acronym is capitalized if the acronym is read as a word, e.g., "Nasa" or ...

  4. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Capital letters

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    Wikipedia avoids unnecessary capitalization.In English, capitalization is primarily needed for proper names, acronyms, and for the first letter of a sentence. [a] Wikipedia relies on sources to determine what is conventionally capitalized; only words and phrases that are consistently capitalized in a substantial majority of independent, reliable sources are capitalized in Wikipedia.

  5. Wikipedia talk : Manual of Style/Capital letters/Archive 38

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    Wikipedia relies on sources to determine what might be capitalized; any words and phrases that are sometimes capitalized by promoters of a topic are important enough to be capitalized in Wikipedia." That would keep us busy for a while, putting all the caps back into the sports articles, the bird and plant names, and the all the rest.

  6. Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Capital letters - Wikipedia

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    Some of these terms should be capitalized in particular contexts, e.g. Native Americans, Aboriginal Australians, and Indigenous in several contexts including Alaska and Canada, and Australia and the Torres Strait Islands. However, it simply is not normal English, no matter how many advocacy pushers fight for it change, to capitalize these terms ...

  7. Capitalization - Wikipedia

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    The capital letter "A" in the Latin alphabet, followed by its lowercase equivalent, in sans serif and serif typefaces respectively. Capitalization (American spelling; also British spelling in Oxford) or capitalisation (Commonwealth English; all other meanings) is writing a word with its first letter as a capital letter (uppercase letter) and the remaining letters in lower case, in writing ...

  8. Trump has an unusual habit of capitalizing random words in ...

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    President Donald Trump has an unusual writing style that has caught the attention of linguists and writing experts.

  9. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Titles of works - Wikipedia

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    Always capitalized: When using title case, the following words should be capitalized: The first and last word of the title (e.g. A Home to Go Back To) [f] Every adjective, adverb, noun, pronoun, and subordinating conjunction (Me, It, His, If, etc.) Every verb, including forms of to be (Be, Am, Is, Are, Being, Was, Were, Been)