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Capitalization, as an 'English Language/Punctuation & Capitalization' question, refers to the practice of beginning certain words with a capital (upper case) letter. Capitalization is not common to all languages.

In English, the following words are customarily capitalized:

1. First word of: sentences, and titles of books, films, magazines etc: Once upon a time ... , National Geographic

2. Names of: days, months, and public holidays: Monday, January, Christmas

3. Proper nouns including names of: people and places, including stars and planets:Paul Phillips, Plato, Wall Street, Portugal, Saturn

  • Where place names are customarily prefixed with a 'compass' word, or another 'indicator' word, that word is also usually capitalised: West Virginia, Eastern Europe, South Africa, Southern Africa, the Far East

4. People's title or rank: Mr Edwards, King Olav, Professor Layton, Pope John, Dr James, General Patton

5. Nouns and adjectives referring to nationalities, languages, ethnic groups, religions, regions:

American, French, Roma, Anglican, Swiss cheese

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