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   Evelyn C. Leeper to All   
   AKICIF: Capitalizing Book Titles   
   16 Jan 26 11:31:29   
   
   From: evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com   
      
   In 2010, the Academia Real EspaƱola declared that 'ch' and 'll' were no   
   longer letters in their own right, but digraphs (like 'ph' in English).   
   As such words with 'ch' would be alphabetized after 'cg' and before   
   'ci', and those with 'll' would have that between 'lk' and 'lm'.   
      
   I personally think this was because computers could not handle them as   
   single letters, and sort algorithms in particular would just break.   
      
   So my question is, when will style manuals decide that book titles and   
   such will have every word capitalized, and drop the exceptions of all   
   the "short words" (e.g., a, an, the, by, of, ...)? I forget what word   
   length I learned should be capitalized, but the rule now seems to be   
   four letters or longer.   
      
   I ask because every editor's capitalization command seems to just   
   capitalize every word.   
      
   (The rule about two spaces between sentences seems to have fallen by the   
   wayside years ago.)   
      
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   Evelyn C. Leeper, http://leepers.us/evelyn   
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