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  EDline Vol. 8, no. 79   (1 September 2003)

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  Contents:

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

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         Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003
         From: David Kenning, dwkenning@btopenworld.com

Susan Bramson wrote:

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

David Ibbetson replied:

> Not if they are part of a name.
>
>   Error in The Times

I've generally been led to believe that The Times is a special
case and that all other newspapers take a lower case 'the' in
running text, including headlines.

I don't like the verbs/nouns/prepositions distinction - I think
it can make for some very messy looking results and I tend to
prefer all caps or no caps.

However, I love AA Milne's use of caps to highlight important
words and phrases, eg: "Christopher Robin was sitting outside his
door putting on his Big Boots. As soon as he saw the Big Boots,
Pooh knew that an Adventure was going to happen, and he brushed
the honey off his nose with the back of his paw and spruced
himself up as well as he could, so as to look Ready For
Anything."


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         Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003
         From: Judy Stein, jstein@panix.com

David Kenning wrote:

> I've generally been led to believe that The Times is a special
> case and that all other newspapers take a lower case 'the' in
> running text, including headlines.

In the U.S., it varies depending on "house" style. Chicago Manual
lower-cases "the" for all newspapers. Other styles (including AP
style, I believe) cap "the" in text if it's part of the name as
it appears on the paper's masthead (The New York Times, The
Washington Post, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, The Boston Globe,
The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, The San
Jose Mercury News, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, etc.). It's
a pain in the bazungas to keep track, which is probably why
Chicago has decreed lower-casing the article in all instances.


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         Date: Mon, 1 Sept 2003
         From: Robert Ritter, robert.ritter@oxcis.ac.uk

At the risk of seeming to flog other OUP books, there is a
section on US versus British English in the 'languages' section
of the *Oxford Guide to Style* and *Oxford Style Manual*,
together with a fairly long list of common confusables. ...

They also cover capitalization in titles: in Oxford style 'is'
etc. is capitalized when stressed or when the first or last word
in a title or subtitle. Guidelines for capitalization of titles
are more complicated in Oxford style than in Chicago, but---to my
mind at least---less procrustean.


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