If the convention over this has changed, do you know when it happened?
2007-04-12 23:14:43 · 34 answers · asked by Buzzard 7 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
I'm getting a bunch of varied opinions here- why is this? It looks like the rules regarding this have changed over, but does anyone know when this happened?
2007-04-17 22:00:56 · update #1
I was taught to capitalize! I still capitalize it, just like I capitalize the names of the planets. I'm so sick of seeing "earth" and not Earth I could scream. I'll capitalize, nothing is going to make me change my mind.
2007-04-20 16:01:07 · answer #1 · answered by wwhrd 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Do Seasons Have Capital Letters
2016-10-02 00:33:34 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Summer Capital Letter
2016-12-13 06:32:36 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Languages (and styles) are living things and like all living things they evolve even though that might send old fogies like me bananas.
There was a time when they beginning of sentences were not necessarily capitalised. It wasn't so long ago that every noun was capitalised. When I started work, words like government were capitalised and now they aren't unless you refer to a particular one like the Federal Government'.
As a child, I capitalised the seasons and I'm sad to see that go because I love giving those particular 3 month a title that deserves a capital but, no, they are now only lower case.
2007-04-20 15:31:59 · answer #4 · answered by p00kaah 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't capitalize the names of seasons when they are used generally (capitalize seasons when they are used with another noun and thus function as proper nouns):
ie. will go to school in the spring...
will go to school Spring term
2007-04-20 11:51:39 · answer #5 · answered by sgc12 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No! They do not begin with a capital letter, except for the normal place at the beginning of a sentence.
Ex: Come fall, the leaves sweep gently to the ground. He loved this autumn time, when the cool breezes blew.
Summer was a good time for tanning.
2007-04-13 00:59:49 · answer #6 · answered by Lisa_lou_who 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nope. Small letters are used for these..
Here are the rulings for capitalization of holidays, events and season:
***Days of the week, months of the year and most holidays are capitalized same as for geological periods such as Jurassic Period and Late Cretaceous. Only seasons of the year are not included.
2007-04-18 16:09:40 · answer #7 · answered by eNgLish wiZaRd 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sure you write Spring Summer and Fall/Autumn with capitals.
2007-04-19 23:13:18 · answer #8 · answered by Kilty 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No. I season my food with salt and pepper not capital letter.
2007-04-19 11:20:42 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
No. There' s a matter with week days too. The French don't use capitals.
2007-04-13 00:21:47 · answer #10 · answered by Cherry Pie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋