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From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
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Subject: Re: a question of form
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 11:28:59 -0700
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On 08/28/2014 04:56 AM, G.B. wrote:
> 
> What will be the most wanted (and least controversial)
> words for title case exception in English and other natural
> languages?
> 
> (I'm collecting them for a patch of Ada mode for Emacs,
> which makes Good_and_Bad appear automatically.)

In /The Elements of Grammar/ by Margaret Shertzer:

"Capitalize all principal words (that is, nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs,
verbs, and first words) in titles"

The rule I learned is: Capitalize the first and last word of a title; capitalize
all other words except articles and short conjunctions and prepositions. "Short"
is usually defined as less than 4 letters.

-- 
Jeff Carter
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