For any word written in a language with whose alphabet or alphabet equivalent has two cases, such as those using the Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, or Armenian alphabet, capitalization is the writing of that word with its first letter in majuscules (uppercase) and the remaining letters in minuscules (lowercase). Such words may also be said to be in title case, since traditionally most words in titles of books, films, etc. are capitalized. In Unicode, a few letters have a title case form, where the Unicode character is different depending on whether the whole word is in uppercase or just the initial letter: see Croatian and polytonic Greek below. Look up word in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Word may mean: Word (linguistics), a unit of language that symbolizes or communicates a meaning Microsoft Word, a word processor Word (computer science), a small group of bits Word may also be: In hip hop slang, an exclamation indicating deep and complete... An alphabet is a complete standardized set of letters — basic written symbols — each of which roughly represents a phoneme of a spoken language, either as it exists now or as it may have been in the past. ... In orthography and typography, letter case (or just case) is the distinction between majuscule (capital or upper-case) and minuscule (lower-case) letters. ... The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. ... The Cyrillic alphabet (or azbuka, from the old name of the first letters) is an alphabet used to write six natural Slavic languages (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian) and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe. ... Writing may refer to two activities: the inscribing of characters on a medium, with the intention of forming words and other constructs that represent language or record information, and the creation of material to be conveyed through written language. ... A grapheme designates the atomic unit in written language. ... Majuscules or capital letters (in the Roman alphabet: A, B, C, ...) are one type of case in a writing system. ... Minuscule, or lower case, is the smaller form (case) of letters (in the Roman alphabet: a, b, c, ...). Originally alphabets were written entirely in majuscule (capital) letters which were spaced between well-defined upper and lower bounds. ... In computing, Unicode provides an international standard which has the goal of providing the means to encode the text of every document people want to store on computers. ...

What to capitalize

Capitalization custom varies with language. The full rules of capitalization for English are complicated and have changed over time, generally to capitalize fewer terms; to the modern reader, an 18th century document seems to use initial capitals excessively. It is an important function of English style guides to describe the complete current rules. Custom: a common practice among people, especially depending on country, culture, time and religion. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... (17th century - 18th century - 19th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 18th century refers to the century that lasted from 1701 through 1800. ... Style guides generally give guidance on language use. ...

Pronouns

• In English, the nominative form of the singular first-person pronoun, I, is capitalized, along with all its contractions (I'll, I'm, etc).
• Some languages capitalize the formal second-person pronoun. German Sie is capitalized along with all its declensions (Ihre, Ihres, etc.), and before the spelling reform, the informal pronoun Du (and its derivatives, such as Dein) was also capitalized. Italian also capitalises its formal pronouns, Lei and Loro, and their cases. This is occasionally likewise done for the Dutch U. In Spanish, the abbreviation of the pronoun usted, Ud. or Vd., is usually written with a capital.
• In formally written Polish, most notably in letters and e-mails, all pronouns referring to the addressee are capitalized. This includes not only ty (you) and all its declensions (twój, ciebie etc.), but also any plural pronouns encompassing the addresse, such as wy (plural you), including declensions. This principle extends to nouns used in formal third person (when used to address the letter addressee), such as Pan (sir) and Pani (madame).

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Nouns

• In German, all nouns are capitalized. This was also the practice in Danish before a spelling reform in 1948.
• In nearly all European languages, single-word proper nouns (including personal names) are capitalized, e.g. France, Moses. Multiple-word proper nouns usually follow rules like the traditional English rules for publication titles (see below), e.g. Robert the Bruce.
  • A few English names may be written with two lowercase f's: ffrench, ffoulkes, etc. This ff fossilizes an older misreading of a blackletter uppercase F.
  • Some individuals choose not to use capitals with their names, such as k.d. lang or bell hooks. E. E. Cummings, whose name is often spelt without capitals, did not spell his name so; the usage derives from the typography used on the cover of one of his books.
  • Brand names are sometimes chosen to start with a lowercase letter but embed a capital letter, e.g. easyJet, to be distinctive. This is sometimes considered an affectation as it breaks normal English rules.
  • Some companies, such as id Software, do the same thing.
• In English — though not in any other major European language except German — the names of days of the week, months and languages are capitalized.
• Capitalization is always used for most names of taxa used in scientific classification of living things, except for the second words of a species name. Example: Homo sapiens.
• A more controversial practice followed by some authors, though few if any style guides, also treats some common names of individual species of living things as proper nouns, and uses initial majuscules for them (as in e.g. Peregrine Falcon) while not capitalizing others (e.g. horse or person). This is most common for birds and fishes. Botanists generally reject the practice of capitalizing any common names of plants, though individual words of plant names may be capitalized by another rule, e.g. Italian stone pine. See the discussion of official common names under common name for an explanation.
• Common nouns may be capitalized when used as names for the entire class of such things, e.g. what a piece of work is Man. French often capitalizes such nouns as l'État (the state) and l'Église (the church) when not referring to specific ones.
• The names of a monotheistic god are capitalized, including Allah, Jehovah, and God. The word god is not capitalized if it is used to refer to the generic idea of a deity, nor is it capitalized when it refers to multiple gods, e.g., Roman gods. There may be some confusion because the Judeo-Christian god is not referred to by a name, but simply as God. Other names for the Judeo-Christian god, such as Elohim and Lord, are also capitalized. Additionally, following some Biblical conventions, such as the New American Standard Bible, the word Lord may be written in small caps, which is a capitalized initial letter followed by additional capitalized letters in a smaller typeface.

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Adjectives

• In English, adjectives derived from proper nouns often retain their capitalization, e.g. a Christian church, Canadian whisky, a Shakespearian sonnet, but a quixotic mission, a chauvinist pig. Where the original capital is no longer at the beginning of the word, usage varies: anti-Christian, but Presocratic or Pre-Socratic or presocratic (not preSocratic)
• Such adjectives do not receive capitals in German (christlich, antichristlich), French (socratique, presocratique) or Polish (sokratejski, presokratejski). Adjectives referring to nationality or ethnicity are not capitalized, but nouns are: un homme canadien, a Canadian man; un Canadien, a Canadian.

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Others

Other uses of capitalization include:

• In most modern languages, the first word in a sentence is capitalized, as is the first word in any quoted sentence.
  • In Latin and Ancient Greek they are not.
  • For some terms a capital as first letter is avoided by avoiding their use at the beginning of a sentence, or by writing it in lowercase even at the beginning of a sentence. E.g., pH looks unfamiliar written PH, and m and M may even have different meanings, milli and mega.
  • In Dutch, ’t, d’, or ’s in names or sayings are never capitalized, even at the start of sentences. (See Compound names below).
• Most English honorifics and titles of persons, e.g. Doctor Watson, Mrs Jones, His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh.
  • This does not apply where the words are not titles; e.g. Watson is a doctor, Philip is a duke.
• Traditionally, the first word of each line in a piece of verse, e.g.:
    Meanwhile the winged Heralds, by command
  Of sovereign power, with awful ceremony
  And trumpet's sound, throughout the host proclaim
  A solemn council forthwith to be held
  At Pandemonium, the high capital
  Of Satan and his peers. […] (Milton, Paradise Lost I:752–756)
  • Modern poets often ignore or defy this convention.
• The English vocative particle O, an archaic form of address, e.g. Thou, O king, art a king of kings.
• Many European languages capitalize nouns and pronouns used to refer to God: Hallowed be Thy name. Some English authors capitalize any word referring to God: the Lamb, the Almighty.

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How to capitalize

Headings and publication titles

In English-language publications, different conventions are widely used for capitalizing words in publication titles and headlines, including chapter and section headings. The main examples are:

THE VITAMINS ARE IN MY FRESH BRUSSELS SPROUTS 

all-uppercase letters

The Vitamins Are In My Fresh Brussels Sprouts 

capitalization of all words, regardless of the part of speech

The Vitamins Are in My Fresh Brussels Sprouts 

capitalization of all words, except for internal articles, prepositions and conjunctions

The Vitamins are in My Fresh Brussels Sprouts 

capitalization of all words, except for internal articles, prepositions, conjunctions and forms of to be

The Vitamins are in my Fresh Brussels Sprouts 

capitalization of all words, except for internal closed-class words

The Vitamins are in my fresh Brussels Sprouts 

capitalization of all nouns

The vitamins are in my fresh Brussels sprouts 

sentence-style capitalization (sentence case), only the first word and proper nouns are capitalized

the vitamins are in my fresh Brussels sprouts 

capitalization of proper nouns only

the vitamins are in my fresh brussels sprouts 

all-lowercase letters

Among U.S. publishers, it is still a common typographic practice to capitalize additional words in titles. This is an old form of emphasis, similar to the more modern practice of using a larger or boldface font for titles. The exact rules differ between individual house styles. Most capitalize all words except for internal closed-class words, or internal articles, prepositions and conjunctions. Some capitalize even only nouns, others capitalize all words. In grammar, a part of speech or word class is defined as the role that a word (or sometimes a phrase) plays in a sentence. ... An article is a word that is put next to a noun to indicate the type of reference being made to the noun. ... In grammar, a preposition is a type of adposition, a grammatical particle that establishes a relationship between an object (usually a noun phrase) and some other part of the sentence, often expressing a location in place or time. ... A closed word class, in linguistics, is a word class to which no new items can normally be added, and that usually contains a relatively small number of items. ... A noun, or noun substantive, is a word or phrase that refers to a person, place, thing, event, substance or quality. ... Sentence case in a general sense describes the way that capitalisation is used within a sentence. ... A noun, or noun substantive, is a word or phrase that refers to a person, place, thing, event, substance or quality. ... A noun, or noun substantive, is a word or phrase that refers to a person, place, thing, event, substance or quality. ... Bold Bold, see Bold (disambiguation). ...

The convention followed by British publishers is the same used in many other languages (e.g., French, German), namely to use sentence-style capitalization in titles and headlines, where capitalization follows the same rules that apply for sentences. This is also widely used in the U.S., especially in bibliographic references and library catalogues. This convention is also used in the International Organization for Standardization and Wikipedia house styles. Logo of the International Organization for Standardization The International Organization for Standardization (ISO or iso) is an international standard-setting body composed of representatives from national standards bodies. ...

Book titles are often emphasized on cover and title pages through the use of all-uppercase letters. Both British and U.S. publishers use this convention.

In creative typography, for example music record covers and other artistic material, all styles are commonly encountered, including all-lowercase letters.

Compound names

• In Dutch, ’t, d’, or ’s in names or sayings are never capitalized, even at the start of sentences. They are short for the articles het and de (or the old possessive form des). Examples: ’s Gravenhage (from des Graven Hage), d’Eendracht (from de Eendracht), ’t Theehuis (from het Theehuis). In Dutch (though not Flemish), the particle "van" in a surname is not capitalized if the forename precedes it. So Franky van der Elst in prose becomes Van der Elst, Franky in a list.
• In English, practice varies when the name starts with a particle with a meaning such as "from" or "the" or "son of".
  • Some of these particles (Mac, Mc, M', O') are always capitalized; others (L', Van) are usually capitalized; still others often are not (d', de, di, von). If the particle is written as two or more words, the same capitalization applies to both (De La or de la).
  • The remaining part of such a name, following the particle, is always capitalized if it is set off with a space as a separate word, or if the particle was not capitalized, or (often) after Mc or Mac. Otherwise there is no set rule.

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Accents

In most languages which use diacritics, these are treated the same way in uppercase whether the text is capitalized or all-uppercase. They may be always preserved (as in German) or always omitted (as, often, in French and Spanish). A diacritical mark or diacritic, sometimes called an accent mark, is a mark added to a letter to alter a words pronunciation or to distinguish between similar words. ...

• However, in the polytonic orthography used for Greek prior to 1982, accents were omitted in all-uppercase words, but kept as part of an uppercase initial (written before rather than above the letter). The latter situation is provided for by title-case characters in Unicode.

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Digraphs and ligatures

Some languages treat certain digraphs as letters. In general, where one such is formed as a ligature, the corresponding uppercase form is used in capitalization; where it is written as two separate characters, only the first will be capitalized. Thus Oedipus or Œdipus are both correct, but OEdipus is not. Examples with ligature include Ærøskøbing in Danish, where Æ/æ is a letter rather than a merely typographic ligature; with separate characters include Llanelli in Welsh, where Ll is a single letter. Digraph has several meanings: Directed graph, or digraph Digraph (orthography) Digraph (computing) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... In writing and typography, a ligature occurs where two or more letterforms are written or printed as a unit. ... Å’dipus and the Sphinx, from an 1879 illustration from Stories from the Greek Tragedians by Alfred Church Oedipus (Greek , Oidipous, swollen-foot; rarely ; Latin Oedipus) or Å’dipus was the mythical king of Thebes, son of Laius and Jocasta, who, unknowingly, killed his father and married his mother. ... Ærøskøbing is a town in central Denmark, located in Ærøskøbing municipality on the island of Ærø. Its geographical location is 54° 53′ 30″ N 10° 24′ 45″ E. Population was 978 in 2003. ... Æ, or æ, is a vowel and a grapheme used in the Icelandic, Danish, Faroese, Norwegian and Ossetian alphabets. ... Typographic work Typography (from the Greek words typos = form and grapho = write) is the art and technique of selecting and arranging type styles, point sizes, line lengths, line leading, character spacing, and word spacing for typeset applications. ... Llanelli is a coastal town in Carmarthenshire, Wales, approximately 13 km (8 miles) from Swansea. ... Welsh redirects here, and this article describes the Welsh language. ... LL may stand for: Love Letter Late Latin The word legis (Latin for laws) in law degrees Lebanese pound, Livre Libanaise in French Linked list, a type of data structure Little league Lie-Ler, a person named Tyler who tends to lie, exaggerate, and endlessy spread rumors Long lines, a...

• An exception is the Dutch letter IJ. Originally a ligature (ij/IJ), both components are capitalized even though they are now usually printed separately, as in IJsselmeer.
• A converse exception exists in the Croatian alphabet, where digraph letters (Dž, Lj, Nj, Dz) have mixed-case forms even when written as ligatures. With typewriters and computers, these forms have become less common than 2-character equivalents; nevertheless they can be represented as single title-case characters in Unicode (Dž, Lj, Nj, Dz).

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Initial mutation

In languages where inflected forms of a word may have extra letters at the start, the capitalized letter may be the initial of the root form rather of than the inflected form. For example, Slievenamon is in Irish written Sliabh na mBan ("women's mountain", where mBan derives from Bean, "woman"), even though the B is in fact mute in the derived form. This article is in need of attention. ... Consonant mutation is the phenomenon in which a consonant in a word is changed according to its morphological and/or syntactic environment. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... Irish, like all modern Celtic languages, is characterized by its initial consonant mutations. ... In an alphabetic writing system, a silent letter is a letter that, in a particular word, does not correspond to any sound in the words pronunciation. ...

See also

• Letter case
• Sentence case
• Bicapitalization (CamelCase)
• Orthography

In orthography and typography, letter case (or just case) is the distinction between majuscule (capital or upper-case) and minuscule (lower-case) letters. ... Sentence case in a general sense describes the way that capitalisation is used within a sentence. ... CamelCase is a common name for the practice of writing compound words or phrases where the words are joined without spaces, and each word is capitalized within the compound. ... The orthography of a language is the set of rules of how to write correctly in the writing system of a language. ...

External links

• Dictionary.com - capitalization rules
• University of South Carolina - capitalization guide
• University of Minnesota Style Manual - Scientific Terminology
• Rules for Capitalization

See Wikipedia:Capitalization for the usage of "Capitalization" in Wikipedia.