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Oh but what is grammar if not a bunch of stylistic choices that over time have settled? I hate title case, but unfortunately it seems to have become The Way We

• playpause 5y ago
  That might just be an American perspective. It is not standard elsewhere. I just checked all the UK and Canadian newspaper sites I can think of, and not one of them uses Stupid Title Case.
  • OJFord 5y ago
    Ah I think you're on to something there - I almost said (and this would explain why) that Bloomberg is the only publication I read that I notice/can think of that does this. It just has click-bait/spam associations to me since that's where I generally see it: I don't like the look of the title, so I look at the URL, if it's 'amazingwownewsdaily.com' or something I move on; if it's 'bloomberg.com' or something recognisable (-ly good) I think 'oh ok, ugh, but ok' and open it.
• hdjjhhvvhga 5y ago
  There are two things here. Title capitalization is definitely a part of English orthography. Any book you take, no matter what English-speaking country the author is from, will always use title case, unless it wants to make a point (avant-garde etc.). However, there are differences as to what deserves to be capitalized. Just the titles of books, films, etc? What about the titles of articles, are they in any way different, or maybe worse than the titles of books etc.? I guess this need for consistency pervades the American usage, codified in the CMoS and other style guides, and hence applied universally.
• thatcat 5y ago
  It's based on the AP style guide used in US print journalism.