Proper noun capitalisation: “The Union” or “the Union”? [duplicate]
.everyoneloves__top-leaderboard:empty,.everyoneloves__mid-leaderboard:empty{ margin-bottom:0;
}
up vote
0
down vote
favorite
This question already has an answer here:
Capitalizing “the” when mid-sentence in a company name?
3 answers
When capitalising a proper noun that has a “the” prefix, should the “the” be capitalised?
Eg:
“This puts the Union at risk”
or:
“This puts The Union at risk”
nouns capitalization
asked Nov 20 at 13:57
Ben
383217
marked as duplicate by Jim, DJClayworth, choster, J. Taylor, Pam Nov 20 at 19:27
This question has been asked before and already has an answer. If those answers do not fully address your question, please ask a new question.
add a comment |
up vote
0
down vote
favorite
This question already has an answer here:
Capitalizing “the” when mid-sentence in a company name?
3 answers
When capitalising a proper noun that has a “the” prefix, should the “the” be capitalised?
Eg:
“This puts the Union at risk”
or:
“This puts The Union at risk”
nouns capitalization
asked Nov 20 at 13:57
Ben
383217
marked as duplicate by Jim, DJClayworth, choster, J. Taylor, Pam Nov 20 at 19:27
This question has been asked before and already has an answer. If those answers do not fully address your question, please ask a new question.
To be polite, one would ask the union how it wishes to be represented.
– choster
Nov 20 at 14:33
@choster you are funny :)
– Carly
Nov 20 at 14:34
@Carly No, I am dead serious. Which union are we talking about, and what is its official name and the official way it prefers to be preferred?
– choster
Nov 20 at 14:38
Then, as a dead serious man, please, give me the Waze address of this Union, so that I might ask it myself, and that it might instruct me, from its unimaginable lips, on how English and logic should bend to accommodate its ego. Or must I interface with its representative, incarnate in man? Caesar non supra grammaticos, @choster. Wake up.
– Carly
Nov 20 at 14:48
add a comment |
up vote
0
down vote
favorite
up vote
0
down vote
favorite
This question already has an answer here:
Capitalizing “the” when mid-sentence in a company name?
3 answers
When capitalising a proper noun that has a “the” prefix, should the “the” be capitalised?
Eg:
“This puts the Union at risk”
or:
“This puts The Union at risk”
nouns capitalization
asked Nov 20 at 13:57
Ben
383217
This question already has an answer here:
Capitalizing “the” when mid-sentence in a company name?
3 answers
When capitalising a proper noun that has a “the” prefix, should the “the” be capitalised?
Eg:
“This puts the Union at risk”
or:
“This puts The Union at risk”
This question already has an answer here:
Capitalizing “the” when mid-sentence in a company name?
3 answers
nouns capitalization
nouns capitalization
asked Nov 20 at 13:57
Ben
383217
asked Nov 20 at 13:57
Ben
383217
asked Nov 20 at 13:57
Ben
383217
asked Nov 20 at 13:57
Ben
383217
asked Nov 20 at 13:57
Ben
383217
383217
marked as duplicate by Jim, DJClayworth, choster, J. Taylor, Pam Nov 20 at 19:27
This question has been asked before and already has an answer. If those answers do not fully address your question, please ask a new question.
marked as duplicate by Jim, DJClayworth, choster, J. Taylor, Pam Nov 20 at 19:27
This question has been asked before and already has an answer. If those answers do not fully address your question, please ask a new question.
To be polite, one would ask the union how it wishes to be represented.
– choster
Nov 20 at 14:33
@choster you are funny :)
– Carly
Nov 20 at 14:34
@Carly No, I am dead serious. Which union are we talking about, and what is its official name and the official way it prefers to be preferred?
– choster
Nov 20 at 14:38
Then, as a dead serious man, please, give me the Waze address of this Union, so that I might ask it myself, and that it might instruct me, from its unimaginable lips, on how English and logic should bend to accommodate its ego. Or must I interface with its representative, incarnate in man? Caesar non supra grammaticos, @choster. Wake up.
– Carly
Nov 20 at 14:48
add a comment |
To be polite, one would ask the union how it wishes to be represented.
– choster
Nov 20 at 14:33
@choster you are funny :)
– Carly
Nov 20 at 14:34
@Carly No, I am dead serious. Which union are we talking about, and what is its official name and the official way it prefers to be preferred?
– choster
Nov 20 at 14:38
Then, as a dead serious man, please, give me the Waze address of this Union, so that I might ask it myself, and that it might instruct me, from its unimaginable lips, on how English and logic should bend to accommodate its ego. Or must I interface with its representative, incarnate in man? Caesar non supra grammaticos, @choster. Wake up.
– Carly
Nov 20 at 14:48
To be polite, one would ask the union how it wishes to be represented.
– choster
Nov 20 at 14:33
To be polite, one would ask the union how it wishes to be represented.
– choster
Nov 20 at 14:33
@choster you are funny :)
– Carly
Nov 20 at 14:34
@choster you are funny :)
– Carly
Nov 20 at 14:34
@Carly No, I am dead serious. Which union are we talking about, and what is its official name and the official way it prefers to be preferred?
– choster
Nov 20 at 14:38
@Carly No, I am dead serious. Which union are we talking about, and what is its official name and the official way it prefers to be preferred?
– choster
Nov 20 at 14:38
Then, as a dead serious man, please, give me the Waze address of this Union, so that I might ask it myself, and that it might instruct me, from its unimaginable lips, on how English and logic should bend to accommodate its ego. Or must I interface with its representative, incarnate in man? Caesar non supra grammaticos, @choster. Wake up.
– Carly
Nov 20 at 14:48
Then, as a dead serious man, please, give me the Waze address of this Union, so that I might ask it myself, and that it might instruct me, from its unimaginable lips, on how English and logic should bend to accommodate its ego. Or must I interface with its representative, incarnate in man? Caesar non supra grammaticos, @choster. Wake up.
– Carly
Nov 20 at 14:48
add a comment |
1 Answer
1
active
oldest
votes
up vote
1
down vote
accepted
The is not capitalized unless you're in a title or at the beginning of a sentence. It is not a proper noun and putting the t in majuscule would not carry any meaning. In fact, with proper nouns that have "the" within them, that the is also not capitalized (take, as a fictitious example, "the United Federation of the Baltic States").
The is a definite article. Glue that lives between other words. Mind you that some languages don't even have definite articles, so, yea.
answered Nov 20 at 14:34
Carly
1,168212
1
As various other questions have covered, if the is considered part of the name, it is capitalized, as with The Ohio State University or The New York Times Company.
– choster
Nov 20 at 14:37
It is a matter of style and not necessity in your examples. When "the" morphs as you have described into part of the proper noun, then by those rules yes, it would be capitalized. Tautology, how quaint to catch your fair self so early this morning. "If it's capitalized, it's capitalized." Well thanks, to say nothing of how it could get there, or if it even belongs there.
– Carly
Nov 20 at 14:52
add a comment |
1 Answer
1
active
oldest
votes
1 Answer
1
active
oldest
votes
active
oldest
votes
active
oldest
votes
up vote
1
down vote
accepted
The is not capitalized unless you're in a title or at the beginning of a sentence. It is not a proper noun and putting the t in majuscule would not carry any meaning. In fact, with proper nouns that have "the" within them, that the is also not capitalized (take, as a fictitious example, "the United Federation of the Baltic States").
The is a definite article. Glue that lives between other words. Mind you that some languages don't even have definite articles, so, yea.
answered Nov 20 at 14:34
Carly
1,168212
1
As various other questions have covered, if the is considered part of the name, it is capitalized, as with The Ohio State University or The New York Times Company.
– choster
Nov 20 at 14:37
It is a matter of style and not necessity in your examples. When "the" morphs as you have described into part of the proper noun, then by those rules yes, it would be capitalized. Tautology, how quaint to catch your fair self so early this morning. "If it's capitalized, it's capitalized." Well thanks, to say nothing of how it could get there, or if it even belongs there.
– Carly
Nov 20 at 14:52
add a comment |
up vote
1
down vote
accepted
The is not capitalized unless you're in a title or at the beginning of a sentence. It is not a proper noun and putting the t in majuscule would not carry any meaning. In fact, with proper nouns that have "the" within them, that the is also not capitalized (take, as a fictitious example, "the United Federation of the Baltic States").
The is a definite article. Glue that lives between other words. Mind you that some languages don't even have definite articles, so, yea.
answered Nov 20 at 14:34
Carly
1,168212
1
As various other questions have covered, if the is considered part of the name, it is capitalized, as with The Ohio State University or The New York Times Company.
– choster
Nov 20 at 14:37
It is a matter of style and not necessity in your examples. When "the" morphs as you have described into part of the proper noun, then by those rules yes, it would be capitalized. Tautology, how quaint to catch your fair self so early this morning. "If it's capitalized, it's capitalized." Well thanks, to say nothing of how it could get there, or if it even belongs there.
– Carly
Nov 20 at 14:52
add a comment |
up vote
1
down vote
accepted
up vote
1
down vote
accepted
The is not capitalized unless you're in a title or at the beginning of a sentence. It is not a proper noun and putting the t in majuscule would not carry any meaning. In fact, with proper nouns that have "the" within them, that the is also not capitalized (take, as a fictitious example, "the United Federation of the Baltic States").
The is a definite article. Glue that lives between other words. Mind you that some languages don't even have definite articles, so, yea.
answered Nov 20 at 14:34
Carly
1,168212
The is not capitalized unless you're in a title or at the beginning of a sentence. It is not a proper noun and putting the t in majuscule would not carry any meaning. In fact, with proper nouns that have "the" within them, that the is also not capitalized (take, as a fictitious example, "the United Federation of the Baltic States").
The is a definite article. Glue that lives between other words. Mind you that some languages don't even have definite articles, so, yea.
answered Nov 20 at 14:34
Carly
1,168212
answered Nov 20 at 14:34
Carly
1,168212
answered Nov 20 at 14:34
Carly
1,168212
answered Nov 20 at 14:34
Carly
1,168212
1,168212
1
As various other questions have covered, if the is considered part of the name, it is capitalized, as with The Ohio State University or The New York Times Company.
– choster
Nov 20 at 14:37
It is a matter of style and not necessity in your examples. When "the" morphs as you have described into part of the proper noun, then by those rules yes, it would be capitalized. Tautology, how quaint to catch your fair self so early this morning. "If it's capitalized, it's capitalized." Well thanks, to say nothing of how it could get there, or if it even belongs there.
– Carly
Nov 20 at 14:52
add a comment |
1
As various other questions have covered, if the is considered part of the name, it is capitalized, as with The Ohio State University or The New York Times Company.
– choster
Nov 20 at 14:37
It is a matter of style and not necessity in your examples. When "the" morphs as you have described into part of the proper noun, then by those rules yes, it would be capitalized. Tautology, how quaint to catch your fair self so early this morning. "If it's capitalized, it's capitalized." Well thanks, to say nothing of how it could get there, or if it even belongs there.
– Carly
Nov 20 at 14:52
1
1
As various other questions have covered, if the is considered part of the name, it is capitalized, as with The Ohio State University or The New York Times Company.
– choster
Nov 20 at 14:37
As various other questions have covered, if the is considered part of the name, it is capitalized, as with The Ohio State University or The New York Times Company.
– choster
Nov 20 at 14:37
It is a matter of style and not necessity in your examples. When "the" morphs as you have described into part of the proper noun, then by those rules yes, it would be capitalized. Tautology, how quaint to catch your fair self so early this morning. "If it's capitalized, it's capitalized." Well thanks, to say nothing of how it could get there, or if it even belongs there.
– Carly
Nov 20 at 14:52
It is a matter of style and not necessity in your examples. When "the" morphs as you have described into part of the proper noun, then by those rules yes, it would be capitalized. Tautology, how quaint to catch your fair self so early this morning. "If it's capitalized, it's capitalized." Well thanks, to say nothing of how it could get there, or if it even belongs there.
– Carly
Nov 20 at 14:52
add a comment |
To be polite, one would ask the union how it wishes to be represented.
– choster
Nov 20 at 14:33
@choster you are funny :)
– Carly
Nov 20 at 14:34
@Carly No, I am dead serious. Which union are we talking about, and what is its official name and the official way it prefers to be preferred?
– choster
Nov 20 at 14:38
Then, as a dead serious man, please, give me the Waze address of this Union, so that I might ask it myself, and that it might instruct me, from its unimaginable lips, on how English and logic should bend to accommodate its ego. Or must I interface with its representative, incarnate in man? Caesar non supra grammaticos, @choster. Wake up.
– Carly
Nov 20 at 14:48