lookivino.blogg.se - Are seasons capitalized

5 Which is an example of an evergreen lease?.

1 Should I capitalize the names of plants?.

Admittedly, so is winter, spring, etc., but we've also heard people measure time in seasons-for example, a farmer referring to a large yield as "two falls' worth of crop. For example, you don't refer to 93 days as "Three Decembers"-rather, "December" is the name we give for a specific period of time. We still don't think of December as a unit of measure, though. And by the way, shouldn't we rename October December and change December to Duodecember for the sake of clarity?Ĭonclusion: don't apply reason to usage that way lies madness.

But then so does July August September Etc. My second question is if you capitalize July because it comes from Julius or March from Mars, then should it be December to match July or december to match spring? The popular vote favors December over december possibly because July August september etc. On the other hand, December is a unit of measure and Tuesday is the name of a god, Tyr, or God (tiwas is cognate with deus and for the sake of consistency they ought to be Tiwas and Deus, except that God is real and tiwas and deus only myths).

In another sense spring up here may not be capitalized because it is largely mythical. December and spring (at least as it signifies 3/21 to 6/21) are both units of measure. I think is partly right about the initial caps. Of course, if the season is used in a title, like Spring Prom or Winter Formal '08, then it's capitalized. "Tuesday" and "December," for example, aren't units of measure, rather they're proper names we attribute to units of measure-and since they're proper names, they're capitalized. Pending that, our guess is that seasons are units of measure, so, like other units of measure-hours, days, weeks, months-they're not capitalized. We did, and when (or if) his answer arrives, we'll post it. But he did suggest we ask a word wizard who used to work here. We asked his boss, he didn't know either-and now we've got him wondering why.

We even asked our boss, and he didn't know. Internet searches and style guides came up short, too. sam, O.Welsh ham, Welsh haf "summer").īut that still doesn't really answer our question. sama "season, half-year," Avestan hama "in summer," Armenian amarn "summer," O.Ir. Okay, we don't capitalize verbs either.Īnd summer, well, if you can understand this nonsense: The etymology of spring and fall says they're derived from verbs. Wintergreen as a type of plant is recorded from 1548.Īnd what we can gather from that garbage is that, originally, winter was a unit of time-so it makes sense that it's not capitalized, since we don't capitalize other units of time, such as hour, minute, year, and so on. Winterize is from 1938, on model of earlier summerize (1935). The verb meaning "to pass the winter (in some place)" is recorded from 1382. Vetrardag, first day of winter, was the Saturday that fell between Oct. The Anglo-Saxons counted years in "winters," cf. vetr "winter"), possibly from PIE *wed-/*wod-/*ud- "wet" (see water), or from *wind- "white" (cf. O.E., "fourth season of the year," from P.Gmc. That seems really weird because you capitalize other periods of time, like months (September, October, etc.) and days (Tuesday, Wednesday, etc.), so why not seasons? Yeah, like spring, summer, fall, winter-they're all supposed to be lowercase.