{"id":2000,"date":"2011-05-20T10:51:04","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T00:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=2000"},"modified":"2011-05-23T14:52:39","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T04:52:39","slug":"what-is-title-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2011\/05\/what-is-title-case\/","title":{"rendered":"What is title case?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"style guide template\" href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/a-corporate-st\u2026guide-template\" target=\"_blank\">Style guides<\/a> and related documents sometimes specify a\u00a0system of <a title=\"when to use capital letters\" href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2008\/04\/capital-letters-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">capital letter use<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Word processing packages often give four styles to choose from:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>all lower case<\/li>\n<li>ALL UPPER CASE<\/li>\n<li>Title Case<\/li>\n<li>Sentence case<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The first two are fairly self-explanatory but here is a definition of the other two common case styles.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Title case <\/strong><\/span>&#8211; traditionally used for the titles of everything (books, plays, movies, etc), title case has a capital letter for the start of every significant word &#8211; where words like and, of, the and a are not counted as significant. {If every word begins with a capital letter, we call it start case.}<br \/>\n<em>The Little House on the Prairie<\/em><br \/>\n<em>One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Breakfast at Tiffany&#8217;s<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Sentence case<\/span><\/strong> &#8211; just like you use in most sentences, only the first word and any proper nouns start with a capital letter.<br \/>\n<em>The little house on the prairie<\/em><br \/>\n<em>One flew over the cuckoo&#8217;s nest<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Breakfast at Tiffany&#8217;s<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sentence case is the default now for most writing, including <a title=\"clear titles and headings\" href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2009\/10\/clear-titles\/\" target=\"_blank\">headings.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Style guides and related documents sometimes specify a\u00a0system of capital letter use. Word processing packages often give four styles to choose from: all lower case ALL UPPER CASE Title Case Sentence case The first two are fairly self-explanatory but here is a definition of the other two common case styles. Title case &#8211; traditionally used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[163,1230,1076,193],"class_list":["post-2000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar-details-2","tag-capital","tag-case","tag-sentence","tag-title"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2008,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions\/2008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}