From: tppm@rr.ca.com   
      
   On 1/16/2026 8:31 AM, Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:   
   > In 2010, the Academia Real Española 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.)   
   >   
      
   I never got that word length mattered, I had the impression that it was   
   conjunctions and the like that weren't capitalized.   
      
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