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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. Academic term - Wikipedia

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    Semester 1: From 1 September to late January or early February. Semester 2 : From late January or early February to late June. Until 2011, the summer break ended on August 31, but in 2011 Israeli ministry of education decided to shorten the summer break by one week and the break now ends on August 26 as of 2012 [update] .

  4. Academic year - Wikipedia

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    Terms 1 and 2 are referred to as Semester 1, as terms 3 and 4 are referred to as Semester 2. Each term consists of ten school weeks. Term 1 starts the day immediately after New Year's Day. If the first school day is a Thursday or a Friday, it is not counted as a school week. After term 1, there is a break of a week, called the March Holidays.

  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:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2016 October 24 ...

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    The word "autumn", 0. And "Fall" is capitalized in the calendar only in the dropdown and when it begins a sentence. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 19:31, 24 October 2016 (UTC) I think the IP meant that Fall is a US and perhaps Canadian term and is not used anywhere else in the English speaking world.

  7. 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.

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

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    If you read the lead of MOS:CAPS, you'll see the general principle, "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." Looking at the article, I see that the term was made ...

  9. Academic quarter (year division) - Wikipedia

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    This quarter system was adopted by the oldest universities in the English-speaking world (Oxford, founded circa 1096, [1] and Cambridge, founded circa 1209 [2]). Over time, Cambridge dropped Trinity Term and renamed Hilary Term to Lent Term, and Oxford also dropped the original Trinity Term and renamed Easter Term as Trinity Term, thus establishing the three-term academic "quarter" year widely ...