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Vutdoan Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Title question

Which is correct?

"Trouble on Wheels"

or

"Trouble On Wheels"
  

Top answer

Years ago there were strict rules about capitalization of smaller (less significant) words in a title. I believe that is changing, and I think it's a good idea [ after all, the prepositions and articles, although smaller words, could make a significant change in the meaning of the title if changes ]. Besides, I recently bought a book that had every word capitalized [ even 'a' in the middle ].

— Philip

  • Years ago there were strict rules about capitalization of smaller (less significant) words in a title.
  • I believe that is changing, and I think it's a good idea [ after all, the prepositions and articles, although smaller words, could make a significant change in the meaning of the title if changes ].
  • Besides, I recently bought a book that had every word capitalized [ even 'a' in the middle ].
  • I don't know what rules are in place nowadays.
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Years ago there were strict rules about capitalization of smaller (less significant) words in a title. I believe that is changing, and I think it's a good idea [ after all, the prepositions and articles, although smaller words, could make a significant change in the meaning of the title if changes ]. Besides, I recently bought a book that had every word capitalized [ even 'a' in the middle ].
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vutdoan"Trouble on Wheels"
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"Trouble On Wheels"
This is a matter of style rather than grammar. Capitalising even short words like articles and prepositions is probably more common in American English than British English.

CB
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As said above, a matter of style, not grammar. The style guides I'm familiar with don't capitalize articles or prepositions. They do capitalize all verbs, no matter how short, and all nouns, including short pronouns.

Trouble on Wheels is my choice.

(There have been weird rules about prepositions longer than a certain number of letters getting capitalized, but that makes no sens
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