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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:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 July 16

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    Anyway, for fun, you can put the seasons through these tests and try to come up with an answer. The capitalization issue is something somewhat connected to proper noun status, but it is not directly correlated. Another thing to mention about capitalization in proper nouns is that you capitalize t in The Hague but not in the United States. Both ...

  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:Manual of Style - Wikipedia

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    Religious texts are capitalized, but often not italicized (the Bhagavad Gita, the Quran, the Talmud, the Granth Sahib, the Bible). Do not capitalize "the" when using it in this way. Some derived adjectives are capitalized by convention, and some are not (biblical, but Quranic); if unsure, check a dictionary.

  6. Season - Wikipedia

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    Ecologists often use a six-season model for temperate climate regions which are not tied to any fixed calendar dates: prevernal, vernal, estival, serotinal, autumnal, and hibernal. Many tropical regions have two seasons: the rainy/wet/monsoon season and the dry season. Some have a third cool, mild, or harmattan season.

  7. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers - Wikipedia

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    Season names are generally not capitalized (a hot summer), except when personified (Old Man Winter) or when part of a formal name (2018 Winter Olympics; Arab Spring) that is capitalized under the guidelines for capitalization.

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

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    Intentional or not, Trump's capitalization habit does fall in line with his knack for branding. In many cases, the words he chooses to capitalize — think "Fake News Media" and "Witch Hunt ...

  9. Capitalization - Wikipedia

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    The capitalization of geographic terms in English text generally depends on whether the author perceives the term as a proper noun, in which case it is capitalized, or as a combination of an established proper noun with a normal adjective or noun, in which case the latter are not capitalized. There are no universally agreed lists of English ...