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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 - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. Wikipedia:Proper names and proper nouns - Wikipedia

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    A proper name in philosophy is an expression (whether spoken, written, or otherwise encoded) whose specialized role is to denote some unique imaginary or real entity (a thing, a person, a place, an abstraction, or whatever). In this it does not differ materially from the concept of proper name as discussed in linguistic theory; but compared to ...

  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 talk : Manual of Style/Capital letters/Archive 4

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    Since we normally capitalize the names of civilizations we should capitalize the whole set of words "Ancient Rome". In other words, Ancient is considered part of the name. If the wording is not especially common or unique and is simply a name plus some descriptive words the author has added to be more specific, the name should be capitalized ...

  7. Meanwhile, actual mainstream English-writing practice is to capitalize such a term only when it has been affirmatively adopted by a particular population as essentially a proper name for them (often not their main one, and often as a blanket term covering multiple related ethno-cultural groups, but nevertheless one that official or quasi ...

  8. Trump names real estate investor and campaign donor Steve ...

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    President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday named real estate investor and campaign donor Steve Witkoff as co-chair of the Trump Vance Inaugural Committee.. The organization will plan events ...

  9. Wikipedia talk : Manual of Style/Capital letters/Archive 22

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    Use common name would seem to apply, and if the one is referring to a proper name the trademarked goods, one uses the trademarked name, umlauts, capitalization, and misspellings/English variations intact (which is what we do with any other proper names, of which trademarks are a subset). For example, an article using American English ...