Oct 13, 2015 · MISCELLANEOUS: Use New York state when necessary to distinguish the state from New York City. Use state of Washington or Washington state when necessary to …

City/state/province etc are qualifiers. On their own they don't specify anything specific and therefore aren't proper nouns. New York City is a vague virtual identity, meaning what it needs …

I used to think PM/AM was correct, but at some point, I switched to using p.m./a.m. for reasons I can't recall. I know that in practical, casual writing, people tend to use whatever form is most

Oct 13, 2017 · I'm a registered practitioner as per the USPTO. That term covers individuals who are empowered to represent others before the patent office by virtue of passing the patent bar …

Jan 17, 2013 · The Associated Press Stylebook has this entry for federal:. Use a capital letter for the architectural style and for corporate or governmental bodies that use the word as part of …

Jul 3, 2014 · I worked in banking for 27 years (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and Bank of America), and my experience in financial services was that M and MM were consistently used …

Feb 10, 2019 · Whether to capitalise/capitalize the name of an empire is a matter of style. British publications are inconsistent (or uneasy) about capitalising.

Each state is further subdivided into "counties", "divisions", or "parishes". In the states I've spent most of my life in, counties are further sub-divided into "townships". (I don't know off the top of …

Oct 1, 2012 · Small-c communism is a political idea, named (probably) from the Paris Commune of 1870, but going back at least as far as the early Christian Church. Lenin, in 1917, set up a …

Mar 27, 2019 · The Chicago Manual of Style, sixteenth edition (2010) briefly addresses the question of whether the spelled-out form of an initialism or acronym should be initial-capped if …