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  EDline Vol. 8, no. 76   (31 August 2003)

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  Contents:

         Q & A
  [2yl]  "Is" or "is" in titles?

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         Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003
         From: Lane Lester, llester@simpub.com

In a title (book, song, etc.) with mixed upper case and lower
case, what about "is"? Is the principle being used to determine
case the type of word or its size? Should it be "Is" or "is"?


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         Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003
         From: Jane Lyle, jlyle@indiana.edu

If you're following Chicago style, verbs of any length are capped
in titles. So "Is" and "Be," even though they are only two
letters long. I'm not sure whether other style manuals advocate
that short verbs be lowercased, but I do know that we get them
that way in a lot of manuscripts!


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         Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003
         From: Richard Leigh, leighcopyeditor@aol.com

Isn't it only prepositions that should have initial lower case?


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         Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003
         From: Susan Bramson, slbramson@aol.com

What about articles- a, and, the? I thought they were always
lower case in titles.


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         Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003
         From: Samantha Wauchope, swauchope@fuschia.net

Yes, although and, like but, for etc., is a conjunction - they're
lowercase too.


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         Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003
         From: David Ibbetson, isserlis@rogers.com

Susan Bramson wrote:

> What about articles- a, and, the? I thought they were always
> lower case in titles.

Not if they are part of a name:

  Error in The Times
  The Times of 28 June 2005 called Mr Blair 
  Prime Minister, three days after he resigned.


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         Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003
         From: Lane Lester, llester@simpub.com

Jane Lyle wrote:

> If you're following Chicago style, verbs of any length are
> capped in titles. So "Is" and "Be," even though they are only
> two letters long.

Thanks to all who responded. Yes, it was my getting "is" so often
that led me to doubt my own thinking that "Is" is right!


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