Link to the Show / Show NotesDiscussion of www.snopes.com's treatment of an 1895 8th grade exam, that makes today's college grads look like blooming idiots. Also, mysterious and perfect spheres found in Costa Rica which cannot be created using modern technology.
As mentioned in the podcast, here are the nine rules of capitalization.
The nine rules are:
- Capitalize the first word in a sentence.
- Capitalize the pronoun I and the interjection O.
- Capitalize the first word in a quotation.
- Capitalize the first word in a direct question falling
within a sentence.
- Capitalize all nouns referring to deity and to the Bible and
other sacred books
- Use a capital for President and Presidency when referring to
the office of the President of the United States
- Capitalize official titles before the name of the official
- Capitalize proper nouns and adjectives formed from proper
nouns
- Capitalize every word, except conjunctions, articles
and short prepositions in the titles of books, music, art, etc
For more information about this test, you may visit the Kansas Library website.
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