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It would be odd if it were not. Just as you would write "I went to the United States" not "I went to The United States". (Of course, lower case here means tha
by waqf 4y ago
It would be odd if it were not.
Just as you would write "I went to the United States" not "I went to The United States".
(Of course, lower case here means that you should use lower or upper case according to its position in the sentence; it doesn't mean forcibly overridden to lower case like e.e.cummings.)
- mkl 4y agoFrom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._E._Cummings#Name_and_capitalization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._E._Cummings#Name_and_capita...: > The Chicago Manual of Style, which prescribes favoring non-standard capitalization of names in accordance with the bearer's strongly stated preference, notes "E. E. Cummings can be safely capitalized; it was one of his publishers, not he himself, who lowercased his name."
- gumby 4y agoYeah, the same clowns who decided that the proper noun the Internet should be capitalized the the same way as the adjective internet (as in internet protocols). I’m not sure I would consider their reasoning, well, reasonable.
- mkl 4y agoWell there's other evidence in that section. I just picked something that was nicely quotable. The reasoning that the man himself usually capitalised his own name in the standard way so we should too is pretty hard to argue with.
- gumby 4y agoYou didn't need to justify your perfectly reasonable comment. I just hijacked your comment because I have an axe to grind.
- tomschwiha 4y agoI visit The Queen.