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Johnny11 Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

Title case usage in US and UK english

0I would like to know are there any grammatical differences using title case in US an UK english. 02br
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0Complications And Symptoms Of Diabetes02br
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00Microsoft Word "Title Case" capitalizes every word, is it because of US English?0-
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0 Not much. The general principles apply in both forms. 0-
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0That aspect of Word makes me crazy. I can't speak for UK English, but don't capitalize "and" and prepositions. Some style guides say to capitalize prepositions that are longer than five letters, or something crazy like that. I don't do that.0-
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A dash (sometimes referred to as an em dash) is not at all the same thing as a hyphen.

A hyphen (a short horizontal line with no spaces at either side) is used to join compound words (e.g. self-supporting), double-barreled names (Mr Smith-Jones) and to indicate the continuation of a word on the following line.

A dash is usually longer, with some space at either side; it is used s
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Hi Uncle Mort,

Does this have something to do with using title case?

Did you want us to proofread what you posted?

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