From: evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com   
      
   On 1/16/26 12:10, Tim Merrigan wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
   I was speaking of conjunctions and prepositions.  For example, "beyond",   
   "between", and "underneath" were considered long enough to be capitalized.   
      
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