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Originally Posted by The Batlord
Alright, this has been bothering me for a while. Why do you only ever capitalize the first word in titles of songs and albums? There are very clear rules for capitalization and you ignore them constantly. Is there some obscure grammatical rule that I'm unaware of or something?
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Originally Posted by Briks
You too, eh?
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Originally Posted by Trollheart
Well, I don't know for sure, but to me the first word begins with a capital letter because, well, it's the first word, same as if it were a sentence. Mostly I don't tend to capitalise prepositions. Names I more than likely will --- therefore "Nightfall in Middle Earth", "Night on Earth", "Night of the secret unicorn" etc. I kind of wing it. I know a lot of places capitalise every word but I don't feel that's right for me. Same with "Number of the Beast" (cos Beast is a personification of the animal, ie Satan) but "The beast with two backs", and then "Piece of mind" is all lowercase other than the first word. I don't know if it's right but it's how I've been doing it now for nigh-on 120 years and I ain't gonna change now, consarn it!
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Guess what I've been wondering this too for a long time now, but didn't dare to ask because of Trollheart's perfectionist nature when it comes to English grammar and thought that he knew something the rest of us didn't when it came to using capitals in song or film titles etc.