Yes, you should always capitalize religious holidays since they are proper nouns. All words also should be capitalized when wishing a happy holiday e. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Capitalize My Title. Table of Contents. Capitalize My Title is a dynamic title capitalization tool used to make sure your titles or headlines use proper capitalization rules according to various style guides include APA, AP, MLA, and Chicago.
It also counts your words and checks for grammar issues. The most important guiding principle in all such matters is consistency within a document and consistency within an office or institution. Probably the most thorough and most often relied upon guide to capitalization is the Chicago Manual of Style, but the Gregg Reference Manual is also highly recommended. If your computer is equipped with PowerPoint, click on the PowerPoint icon to the right for a brief presentation on capitalization.
Quiz on Capitalization. For WebCT Users in Writing Classes: The "caps" icon usually immediately before a word indicates either that the following word ought to be capitalized for one of the reasons listed here or, if it is already capitalized, that it shouldn't be.
A capitalized word that ought to be in lower-case is usually trying to appear more important than it really is. Catholic Mass , as written with the upper-case initial, also functions to identify itself as a proper noun describing the specific liturgical ritual where the Eucharist is celebrated. Seasons , such as winter, spring, summer and fall, do not require capitalization because they are generic common nouns.
Some people may confuse these words as being proper nouns and try to capitalize them using that rule of capitalization. The winter season allows for many snow related sports. Capitalization is the writing of a word with its first letter in uppercase and the remaining letters in lowercase. Experienced writers are stingy with capitals.
It is best not to use them if there is any doubt. Rule 1. Capitalize the first word of a document and the first word after a period. The word program is not capitalized simply because it is preceded by a proper noun. Names of religions and their adherents aren't capitalized. Proper Names Proper nouns are always capitalized, whether they refer to visible persons Mr. Proper nouns that refer to religions are also capitalized.
Thus, we get: Christianity, Judaism, Islam. After all, what could possibly motivate a person to misspell such a simple word which is used so frequently? It's not like they break grammar rules as a matter of course, so some other psychological purpose must be the cause. Indeed, it would be rather juvenile to misspell simply in order to insult theists. If such an atheist had so little respect for another person, though, why even waste the time writing to them in the first place, much less deliberately trying to hurt them at the same time?
While that may actually be the case with some atheists who write the word 'god' with a lowercase 'g,' it isn't the normal reason why atheists spell the word in this manner. To understand why we need only observe the fact Christians don't capitalize the 'g' and write about the gods and goddesses of the ancient Greeks and Romans.
Is that an attempt to insult and denigrate those polytheistic beliefs? Of course not—it's grammatically correct to use a lowercase 'g' and write 'gods and goddesses'. The reason is that in such cases we are talking about members of a general class or category —specifically, members of a group which gets the label 'gods' because people have, at one time or another, worshipped its members as gods. Anytime we are referring to the fact that some being or alleged being is a member of this class, it is grammatically appropriate to use a lowercase 'g' but inappropriate to use an uppercase 'G'—just as it would be inappropriate to write about Apples or Cats.
The same holds true if we are writing very generally about Christian, Jewish, Muslim, or Sikh beliefs. It is appropriate to say that Christians believe in a god, that Jews believe in a single god, that Muslims pray every Friday to their god, and that Sikhs worship their god.
There is absolutely no reason, grammatical or otherwise, to capitalize 'god' in any of those sentences. On the other hand, if we are referring to the specific god-concept that a group worships, then it may be appropriate to use capitalization. We can say that Christians are supposed to follow what their god wants them to do, or we can say that Christians are supposed to follow what God wants them to do.
Either works, but we capitalize God in the latter sentence because we are essentially using it as a proper name—just as if we were talking about Apollo, Mercury, or Odin.
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