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Thu 26 Jan, 2017 09:17 am
One of our newspapers is the new paper. The name is on top of the front page. Why does the name change to The New Paper when it is referred to in the news reports? Should the reporters write 'the new paper' instead?
Thanks.
@tanguatlay,
You're supposed to capitalize proper names.
Having a proper name with lower capitals is goofy and unnecessarily pretentious rather than edgy. Not failing to mention, that it's confusing for readers who aren't familiar with the brand name.
I would say that it is a new paper called the New Paper. Many style guides, including the very influential Chicago Manual of Style and the UK Guardian style guide, recommend that it be either:
subsumed by the surrounding text:
When I read the Times, I pretend not to see the crossword puzzle. I have enough work to do as it is.
or simply dropped (depending on circumstances):
In notes and bibliographies, an initial “the” is omitted:
Korte, Tim. “Jordan Lifts Wizards” (AP), Washington Post, March 27, 2003.
Thus, referring to it as "The New Paper " could be seen as an error, and would be corrected by most editors.
@centrox,
Thanks, centrox, for your great effort.
@tanguatlay,
Quote:Why does the name change to The New Paper
Tang that's a very good q but cap. is the usu way in ref
Quote:√proper name with lower capitals is goofy
Tsar I agree
Quote:√a new paper called the New Paper..."The New Paper " could be seen as an error/quote]Cen this time I'd disagree. There's no q but the 'The' is part of its name
@centrox,
centrox wrote:recommend that it be either:
"It" here is an initial 'the' in the name of a periodical.
@centrox,
Cen I got the opposite impression for some reason but of course you could be right
@dalehileman,
dalehileman wrote:Cen I got the opposite impression for some reason but of course you could be right
There is no formal rule. Like many of tanguatlay's questions, this is a matter of style preference. In most US and British style guides, if a periodical has an initial 'The' as part of its title, so you see "The Times" or "The Jonestown Journal" at the top of the front page (i.e. the masthead) or on the cover, then the convention is that when you refer to it you lowercase "the" and keep it Roman (non-italic) for example a story in the
Times; a picture in the
Jonestown Journal.
@centrox,
Hafta take ur word for that Cen, tho it seems illogical somehow
@dalehileman,
dalehileman wrote:it seems illogical somehow
Not my word, multiple style guides. Why don't you check 'em out? (or shut up?)
@centrox,
I defer to the apparent illogic
I hate to inform you all, but a newspaper can choose its own Mastif.
@ossobucotemp,
Quote:I hate to inform you all, but a newspaper can choose its own Mastif.
Some peccadilloes are best left unadvertised eg. thenewpaper could make a considerable dog's breakfast crossing a mastiff with a maidenhead to spawn a masthead.
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