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  2. 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 ...

  3. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Capital letters

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    The adjective biblical should not be capitalized. Quranic is normally capitalized, but usage varies for talmudic, vedic, etc. Be consistent within an article. Do not capitalize terms denoting types of religious or mythical beings, such as angel, fairy, or deva. The personal names of individual beings are capitalized as normal (the archangel Gabriel

  4. Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 13

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    Almost always capitalized when referring to a specific marine corps such as the U.S. Marine Corps. For example: My brother is a marine. It is a generic term. Unless you mean specifically My brother is a (British Royal) Marine. Then it should be capitalized. But since my dad is a Marine, yes you should always fucking capitalize Marine.

  5. 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 ...

  6. Wikipedia:Proper names and proper nouns - Wikipedia

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    The short answer: Because it is not conventional to capitalize these elements across most academic writing (of which encyclopedic writing is a subset). That is, current English does not treat the relevant expressions as proper names (or as associated with proper names) in the ways covered by modern linguistic theory.

  7. 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.)

  8. Wikipedia talk : Manual of Style/Capital letters/Archive 4

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    "State" should be capitalized when referring to the government of the state or the official name of the state, but otherwise not. -Rrius 18:55, 15 April 2010 (UTC) My question was intended to get a better idea of whether there is a need for the addition. I agree that "state" should not be capitalized in "state of _____".

  9. 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 ...