Capital letter

In various alphabets, uppercase letters are letters that are larger and usually different in shape than lowercase letters, with which they contrast. In the case of the Latin alphabet, only that set of letters is preserved from the original Latin, which -when the current lowercase letters were later developed- will become uppercase letters.

Use of capital letters in Spanish

• At the beginning of a prayer.
• At the beginning of their own names.
• Abbreviations and initials.

In general, they are used as the initial of proper names, after a period and in initials.

After a period

As a general rule, after a point (whether separate or followed) or any other sign that serves as the conclusion of the phrase or sentence; For example:

• You wanted lentils? No, I don't.
• Move left! The other left...

After the ellipsis

As a general rule, after the ellipsis, there is a capital letter:

• I don't know if... Well, okay, I'll go.
• The dog likes to run... it's very active.

If the phrase or sentence after the ellipsis is a continuation and not another independent phrase, it will not be capitalized:

• Go whenever you want, dear. [Take a coma because it would have taken it also if the suspensive points had not been: "Go whenever you want, dear."]
• I'll be out..
• At that moment I felt... happy. (He does not have a coma because if the suspensive points had not been, he would not have taken it: “At that time I felt happy”).

Titles of works of artistic creation

The titles of books, movies, songs, television and radio programs, and other creative works only capitalize the first word and any proper names:

• A happy world
• Hundred years of solitude
• The Quotes of Young Werther.
• The ingenious hydalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha.
• La Constitution.
  • They voted for a new modification to the Constitution of the Argentine Nation.
• Listen. The four stations.
• They listened to the Symphony #9 Beethoven.
• They listened to the Ninth symphony Beethoven.

Titles of Periodicals and Collections

In periodicals (such as newspapers and magazines) and collections, all nouns and adjectives that are part of the name must be capitalized:

• Page 12
• The Online Time
• La Revista de Neurología He stopped publishing.
• The magazine Society He stopped publishing.
• Paidós (Philosophy for Life)
• Biblioteca de Grandes Autores Panameños.

Sacred book titles

In Judeo-Christian and Muslim holy books, all nouns and adjectives must be capitalized:

• the Bible
• the Old Testament (if it wasn't a sacred text it could be written: "It was devoid of having read the whole Old Testament from back to forth”).
• The New Testament (if it were not a sacred text you could write: "They learned the New testament of memory”).
• the Book of Judges (if not a sacred text could be written: "I used the pages of the Book of judges as a role to arm”).
• the Gospel according to Saint Luke (if it were not a sacred text you could write: "The author of the Gospel of Saint Luke He was neither Luke nor was holy."
• the Letter to the Ephesians (both "carta" and "efesios" are common substantive; if it were not a sacred text it could be written: "The nonsense contained in the Epistula ad efesios originated the word “defesio”).
• the Quran
• the Holy Scriptures

The sacred books of other religions or of pre-Columbian religions are usually written with a capital letter in the first word, and with italics:

• the Bhagavad-gītā
• the I fucking
• the Book of Mormon
• the Book of the Dead
• the Majabharata
• the Mishnah
• the Popol vuh
• the Sueta-asuatara-upanisad
• the Talmud
• the Torah

Titles of congresses, courses, seminars

Nouns and adjectives that give names to congresses, workshops, courses, seminars, etc. are also capitalized. (unless the name has more than three or four words):

• the Seminar Journalism and Networks.
• the Seminar of Language Industries.
• XV World Congress of Neonatology.
• the Seminar of Anthropology and Economics.
• the scientific seminar The Crisis of Religions.
  • the scientific seminar «The crisis of religions and their disappearance in the first decades of the 21st century».
• the seminar Ser Universitario, at the National Technological University.
  • the seminar “University Being at the National Technological University”.
• Panoramic Study of the Old Testament.
• the pre-matrimonial workshop "After the steps of Santa Frígida".
  • We attend the prematrimonial workshop, like all other couples.
• 1.♪ Textual Critical Course.
• Integral Course on University Leveling.
• the "Seminar of Management of Biomedical Technologies".

• II course specializing in style correction and orthotypeography.
  • I have attended the "II course of specialization in style correction and orthotypeography" two days ago.
• Introduction to the commentary of Spanish narrative and poetic texts of the sixteenth century.
  • I missed the seminar “Introduction to the commentary on Spanish narrative and poetic texts of the sixteenth century” because I am a lazy.

Lectures

• Policy aspects of Spanish multi-year expressions.
• The Method to the Problem of God.
• History of translation from the 18th century to the present.
• Introduction to the interpretation of conferences.
• Introduction to health promotion.
• Philosophy and Restoration of Belief.
• The inner couple.
• Use of scientific language in current astrology.
• Truth and legal forms (Foucault conference).
• The two forms of coexistence: company or rivalry.
• The latest edition of the "Orthography of the Spanish Language" and other important details for the correctors.
• Advanced resources for correction with wilds and macros.
• Electronic resources for orthotypeography of the English language.
• Electronic resources for Spanish orthotypes.
• Translation review: potential improvements for translators from typical errors.
• An introduction to Wittgenstein's philosophy.
• An introduction to general relativity from a mathematical point of view.

• The speech "The Chilean Way to Socialism" (Salvador Allende, 1971).
• The Chilean way to socialism (discourse of Salvador Allende, published in 1971).

Proper Nouns

In proper nouns (for example: Luis, Colombia), or in common nouns that are used as proper:

• “Today, Mom has decided to visit us” (note the difference with: “Today, my mom has decided to visit us”);
• “Do you not think, Father, that you have less and less powers?” (note the difference with: “Father Ignatius has less and less powers”);
• “The President sits here” (note the difference with: “Please, President, you sit here”);
• - Where's Mom?

- Who's your mom, Kid? Is this kid the son of any of you?

Last names: Madariaga, Maradiaga, Milanés, Narváez, Rodríguez, Ruiz.

When a surname begins with a preposition, it is written with lower case when it accompanies the name:

• Pedro de Mendoza
  • De Mendoza, advance Spanish
• Luis d’Elía
  • Mr. D’Elía

If the name does not appear but only the last name, the preposition must be written with a capital letter:

• President De la Rúa
  • Fernando de la Rúa
  • De la Rúa, Fernando
• The code Da Vinci
  • Leonardo da Vinci
  • Da Vinci, Leonardo

Names of musical groups or bands:

• Don't ask me to bring Chanclas.
• You're not going to Gustar.

Names of Goddesses and Gods:

• Aphrodite
• Allah
• Amon
• God (when used as his own name).
  • "Now, God, we ask you for your son, Jesus."
  • the Jewish god Yahweh
• Goddess (when used as your own name).
  • "O Goddess, listen to me your gifts."
• the Hebrew goddess Mariam
• Yahweh
  • "I am 99 % atheist: I believe the existence of the 100 most important gods recorded in human history except the Lord's: I believe in him blindly."
• Jupiter.

In the case of a woman's married name, the preposition «of» is kept in lower case:

• Siemienczuk
  • the lady of Siemienczuk
  • the Siemienczuk (not "the De Siemienczuk", or "the Siemienczuk").
• Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
  • Mrs. Kirchner
  • the Kirchner (not "the De Kirchner", or "the Kirchner").

If the surname does not have a preposition, but only an article, it is always written with a capital letter, regardless of whether or not the given name is used:

• Pedro Martínez de la Rosa (1971-), Spanish driver of Formula 1.
  • Mrs. De la Rosa.
  • Mr.'s wife. From the Rose.
• Guillermo La Rosa (1954-), Peruvian footballer.
  • Lady. from La Rosa.
  • Mr. La Rosa's wife.
• Guillermo Larrosa (1975-), Argentine soccer player.

Dynasty names derived from a surname must be capitalized:

• the Habsburgs, the Savoys, the Tudors, the Bourbons, the Gupta, the Mauria;
• the Kennedy family.

When surnames are used as adjectives, they must be written with lower case:

• the Bourbon kings, the Bourgian kings, the Gupta emperors, the marathi kings, the Maurian emperors.

When the names and surnames of an author designate one of their works, they must keep the capital letter:

• He had the palace full of famous paintings: in the living room we saw a Miró, a De Chirico and a Juan Gris.

Trademarks

Brands are proper nouns, so they must be written with a capital letter:

• Both the Cinzano and the Martini make me half bad.
• He's got a Mercedes.

When not specifically used to refer to a product belonging to a trademark, they must be in lowercase:

• It took like ten mark martinis irrecordable.
• I cut off with the yilé (from the Gillette brand of shaving leaves).
• I covered the wound with a cradle (from the brand Curitas de apósitos).
• An aspirin would be too much for her, then she took only one aspirin (from Aspirin and Aspirinetas brands).
• In Chile they said "confor" or "confor" to the toilet paper (of the Comfort brand).
• In Peru the dentífrico told him "colgate" (of the Colgate brand, which in English is pronounced [kólgueit]).

Civil, military or religious celebrations or festivities

According to the Ortografía de la lengua española, the nouns that are part of the name of festivities, whether civil, military or religious, are written with a capital initial:

History

Names of historical ages and epochs, chronological computations, historical events, and religious, political, or cultural movements:

• Antiquity
• the High Middle Ages
• the Lower Middle Ages
• the West Schism
• the Counter-reform
• the Age of Metals
• the Stone Age
• the Middle Ages
• the Modern Age
• the Middle Ages
• the Armenian Genocide
• the Hégira
• the Holocaust
• Illustration
• the March of Salt (leadered by Gandhi).
• World War I, World War II, World War III
• the Renaissance
• the Key Revolution, the Jazmine Revolution, the University Revolution, the Soviet Revolution
  • the socialist revolution (which is not a historical fact—as it does not specifically refer to the Russian Revolution—it refers to a kind of revolution in general).
• the Golden Age

The specifying adjective that accompanies the nouns «Revolution» and «Empire» is written with a lower case:

• the French Revolution, the Tunisian Revolution
• the British Empire, Gupta Empire, the Kushán Empire (Kusan is the name of a tribe), the Marathian Empire, the Mogol Empire, the Roman Empire, the Sikh Empire.

On the other hand, other similar nouns, such as caliphate, clan, dynasty, are always in lower case:

• the caliphate of Cordoba, the caliphate of Damascus
• the Abbasid dynasty, the Austrian dynasty
• the Abbasids, the Alawites, the Nazarites,
• the 18th Egyptian dynasty, the 18th dynasty
• the Habsburg dynasty, the Saboya dynasty, the Habsburg-Borbon dynasty, the Ming dynasty.

Cultures and civilizations

• Almeria culture or Almeria culture
• the Andalusian culture or the culture of Andalusia
• the Andean culture or the culture of the Andes
• apennic culture or the culture of the Apennines
• Algerian culture or culture
• U.S. culture or U.S. culture
• the Gumelnite culture or culture of Gumelniţa (an area on the banks of the Danube River).
• Clovis culture or culture
• minoid culture or (inusual) Minos culture
• Mochica culture or Moche culture
• Nazqueña culture or Nazca culture
• the Roman culture or the culture of Rome
• the culture of Sanagasta
• Mohenjo-Daro culture or Indo Valley culture
• the nurture culture or nurture culture
• the Olmeca culture or the culture of the Olmecas

Geologic Ages

The nouns that give names to eras and geological periods are written with a capital letter:

• the Quaternary
• the Stone Age
• Jurassic
• Magdalen (cultural scene).
• The Miocene
• Pleistocene.

However, when the noun is followed by an adjective (such as «superior», «medium» or «late»), it must be lowercase:

• the middle Eocene
• the Upper Neolithic
• the Pleistocene early
• the late Pliocene

However, when the name is preceded by a noun (such as «era», «period», «aeon»), it must be lowercase:

• the Cenozoic era
• the quaternary period
• the devoonic period
• the carbon system
• the devonic system

Schools, doctrines, philosophies

• the anarchism
• the classicism
• Communism
• Austrian school of economy (not an institution but a doctrine).
• the school of Plato (it is not an institution but a doctrine).
• Fascism
• Keynesianism
• Marxism
• Marxism-Leninism
• the monetarism
• the Nazism
• Pan-Africanism
• Panarabism
• the principle of non-intervention
• Monroe doctrine.
• democratic socialism
• Social Democracy, Social Democrats.

Artistic Movements

The names of artistic and cultural movements are capitalized only when they cover all or most of the artistic disciplines (such as art, literature, music, etc.) and identify large culturally differentiated historical periods prior to the century XX:

• the Cinquecent
• the Renaissance
• the Baroque
• Neoclasicism
• Romanticism.

The specifiers of those moves are lowercase:

• The late Baroque
• German Romanticism
• the French Renaissance
• Early rebirth.

On the other hand, the nouns and adjectives that are part of the denomination of schools and movements prior to the 20th century, and typical of specific artistic disciplines, are preferably written with a lower case, since the historical period in which they fall is not you can uniquely identify with any of them in particular:

• art nouveau
• Cubism
• The Dadaism
• indigenism
• Modernism
• Italian neorealism.
• magical realism
• symbolism
• Surrealism
• the avant-garde

Some, despite being prior to the 20th century, since they fall within historical periods that cannot be exclusively identified with any of them in particular:

• the concept
• the culteranism
• the Dutch school
• the gallant style
• Gothic
• the late Gothic

The denominations of the genres that occur in the different artistic disciplines are always written with a lower case, as they are generic names of these classes or categories:

• Black cinema
• the novel pastoril
• abstract painting

Religions

Religions are in lower case:

• Buddhism
• Christianity
• Hinduism
• Islam
  • Islam (only when Islam is taken as a historical-political entity, and not merely a religious one, could carry capitals: "The Sassanian dynasty was at the forefront of Persia's destiny for the last centuries before Islam."
• Mormonism
• Jehovah ' s Witnesses
  • the Jesuits
• Bahái
  • ye bah ye

Place names

Nouns and adjectives that are part of the name of geographical areas, which generally cover different countries, but are conceived as geopolitical areas with common characteristics, are capitalized:

• Latin America (or Latin America), Latin America
• Antarctica (as used in Chile) or Antarctica
• The Southern Cone
• the Maghreb
• Hispanoamérica
• West,
• East,
  • Near or Near East (formed by Saudi Arabia, Baréin, Cyprus, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Oman, Qatar, Syria, Sudan and Yemen),
  • Middle East (Afghanistan, India and Pakistan)
  • Far East (Australia, Bangladesh, Burma, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, North Korea, South Korea, Philippines, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, New Zealand, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam)
• Southeast Asian

Common nouns that accompany geographical proper names (stream, cape, city, mountain range, strait, gulf, island, sea, ocean, peninsula, river, mountain range, etc.) must be written in lowercase:

• The Ramallo stream (“arroyo”) is not part of its own name, as it can be said: “Today I was shot in the Ramallah”.
  • The Arroyo del Medio (“arroyo”) goes with capital because it is part of its own name, since it cannot be said: “Today I was shot in the middle”).
• the river Ebro (“go”) is not part of its own name, as it can be said: “Today I was shot in the Ebro”.
  • the River of Americans (California), “rio” goes with capital because it is part of its own name, since it cannot be said: “Today I was shot in the Americans”.
• Cape Horn.
• the bay of the Ballenas
• the bay of Samborombón
• the city of Buenos Aires (since it is not usual the phrase: "I go to Buenos Aires City" without article). On the other hand, when it is named in official documents, it is written with a capital letter: «In the City of Buenos Aires...», «In the CABA (City of Buenos Aires)...», «In the CABA...», etc.
  • But: Ciudad Evita (since the phrase is usual: "I go to Ciudad Evita" without article).
• the city of Panama (since it is not usual the phrase: "I go to Panama City" without article).
• the city of Mexico (since the phrase is not usual: "I go to Mexico City" without article).
  • but: Ciudad Juárez (since the phrase is usual: "I go to Ciudad Juárez" without article).
• the Antarctic continent (because it is a mere descriptive name).
• the Andes mountain range
  • the Andean mountain range (because it is a mere descriptive name; the common name is "Andes mountain range")
• the mountain range of the Costa
• the Perito Moreno Glacier
• the Persian Gulf
• the southern islands or the southern islands (perhaps obsolete)
• the Borromean Islands (because blurry is an adjective derived from the Borromeo family, which bought those islands) or the Borromeas Islands (perhaps obsolete)
• the British islands ("British") go with tiny because it is a descriptive adjective.
• the Canary Islands ("islas" goes with tiny because the Canary Islands are not an independent country),
• the central islands or the central islands (perhaps obsolete)
• The Cook Islands, Marshall Islands or Solomon Islands, because in this case, "Islas" is part of the name of those countries.
• unsuccessful islands or unsuccessful islands (perhaps obsolete)
• the Aolias Islands or the Aolias Islands (perhaps obsolete)
• (if considered) Corners is an adjective by the way it modifies Islandsif it were not an adjective, Spoon Islands(perhaps obsolete)
• the outer islands or the foreign islands (perhaps obsolete)
• the Frisian Islands or the Frisian Islands (perhaps obsolete)
  • Danish Friesian Islands, Western Friesian Islands, Eastern Friesian Islands, Northern Friesian Islands
• hybrid islands (if considered hybrids is an adjective because it modifies Islandsbut hybrids comes from the Latin noun itself Ebudeswhich comes possibly from a preceltic word) or the Hebrid Islands (perhaps obsolete)
• the Pitiusas Islands (when it refers to the islands of Ibiza and Formentera; but when it refers to only one of them – and has already mentioned it – it must be written with tiny: “Ibiza is party: on the island pitiusa there are more and more Japanese tourists”),
• the sea of Amundsen
• the Dead Sea
• the Antarctic Plateau
• the Transantartic Mountains
• the Atlantic Ocean
• the Indian Ocean
• the Antarctic peninsula, the Arabian peninsula, the Hellenic peninsula, the Iberian peninsula, the Arabian peninsula
  • in the case of the Iberian Peninsula, the Pan-Hispanic dictionary of doubts In 2005 he proposed to write both terms with capital letters, because it refers to an entity of historical-political character, and not to a mere geographical accident. In 2010 Orthography of the ASALE considers this expression, together with other comparables, geographical accidents for which a common noun is used accompanied by an adjective, and both are written with a small scale, as they are "expressions merely appealing or common, although they designate a single reference".
• the Kamchatka peninsula
• the peninsula of Valdés
• the Ross Ice Platform
• the province of Buenos Aires (although the official name is "Province of Buenos Aires", which uses capital legal). It carries capital letters when it is part of the name of an institution:
  • Police of the Province of Buenos Aires
  • ♪ «At the headquarters of the Police of the Province of Buenos Aires»; instead, you can say:
  • ♪ "You can't compare federal police to the police in the province of Buenos Aires"
  • the shield of the province of Buenos Aires; both “hearing” and “province” are part of a descriptive title, not an institution.
  • Judiciary of the Province of Buenos Aires: "province" carries capital because it is part of an institution's own name.
  • Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Aires: «provincia» carries capital because it is part of an institution's own name.
  • ♪ «The Bank of the Province of Buenos Aires has more and more debts»
  • ♪ “The Province Bank has more and more debts”; however:
  • ♪ "The bank of the province has more and more debts."
• the river Ebro (“go”) is not part of its own name, as it can be said: “Today I was shot in the Ebro”.
• The Black River (because “rio” is part of its own name, as it cannot be said: “Today I was shot in the Black”).
  • the province of Río Negro (although the official name is "Province of Río Negro", which uses capital legal). He carries capital letters when he is part of the name of an institution: “Website of the Judiciary of the Province of Río Negro”.
• the Paraná River
• the Sierra de Gredos

On the other hand, if the generic noun is part of the proper name, it must be written with an initial capital letter:

• Vatican City
• Ciudad Evita
• Ciudad Hidalgo (Chiapas).
• Ciudad Hidalgo (Michoacán).
• Ciudad Juárez (for example, “I’m going to Ciudad Juárez”; instead, “I’m going to Buenos Aires”).
• the Rio de la Plata (you can't say: "I was shot in the Silver River").
  • But: “the Paranah River” (as it may be said, “I have bathed in the Paranah.”)
• Sierra Nevada
• Sierra Maestra
• the Sierra de los Comechingones
• the Picos de Europa.

Dots and imaginary lines are lowercase:

• the southern hemisphere
• the polar circle
• the ecliptic.
• Ecuador
  • Ecuador
• Greenwich Meridian
• the Tropic of Capricorn
• the Antarctic Polar Circle
• the Antarctic pole, southern pole, Arctic pole, northern pole, magnetic north pole, south pole.

When the denominations north pole and south pole do not refer to the ends of the Earth's axis of rotation but to the geographical area surrounding said points, they will be written with initial capital letter:

• "The expedition will tour the South Pole."

Institutions

The nouns and adjectives that make up the name of the departments within an institution, administrative divisions, buildings, entities, public establishments, institutions, monuments, organizations, political parties are capitalized:

• Administrative Management Area
• The Café de los Artists (the word "café" is part of its own name).
• Paulista coffee
• Department of Human Resources
• the Institute of Radiology of Córdoba
• Ministry of Finance
• the Monument to the Flag
• the Museum of Fine Arts
• the British Museum (in exchange: British Empire).
• Democratic Party
• the Cervantes Theatre
• the Theatre of Art
• The Royal Theatre
• The Teatro alla Scala
• the Scala de Milan
• Faculty of Medicine
• the Royal Academy of History
• the Tower of Pisa
• National University of Costa Rica

The term that in current use names a certain institution or building in an abbreviated way is also written with a capital letter:

• the National Library.
• San Martín (for the San Martín Theatre).
• the Autonomous University.
• the Real (by the Teatro Real).

The different branches of government (executive, legislative and judicial) are written with a lowercase initial when referring to them generically, but with a capital letter if they are part of a proper name or if they refer to the specific institution.

• "In the Government, the executive branch is the president."
• "The executive branch decreed the state of siege."
• "The Executive granted retirements."
• "In democracy, the press is the fourth power."

Academic Sciences

The nouns and adjectives that form the name of scientific disciplines, when they are mentioned as subjects of study, and especially in curricular or academic contexts (names of subjects, chairs, faculties, etc.):

• He studied Industrial Design.
• He's a graduate in Public Relations.
• I'm a graduate in English Philology.
• I enrolled in Audiovisual Communication.
• My best teacher was that of Numerical Calculus.
• Translation and Interpretation.
• Hispanic Philology.
• English studies.
• Graphic Design.
• Journalism.
• Advertising.

Outside the aforementioned contexts, lowercase is used:

• Alternative medicine does not experience any real progress.
• Child psychology was rather undervalued.
• The difference of focus between numerical calculation and algebra.
• Biology is a very relevant discipline.
• Industrial design experts were delighted.

Academic subjects that do not constitute the name of a scientific discipline must be lowercase (only the first word is written with a capital letter), as if it were the title of a book or a conference:

• The labour market of professional interpretation in Spain.
• History of philosophical systems.
• Introduction to musical composition.
• I was noted in "Introduction to composition".

Astros

The names of galaxies, constellations, stars, planets and satellites:

• The Milky Way
• Osa Mayor
• the Crab nebula
• the cloud of Oort
• the constellation of Orion
• the star Antares
• Comet Halley
• Venus
• Mars
• Ganimedes
• the Sun, the Earth, the Moon
  • The words “sun”, “land” and “light” in a figurative sense, with the meaning of ‘star’, ‘planet of land type’ and ‘satellite’, or when they refer to the effects that are observed (including the phases of the moon). Also “ground” goes with tinyness when it means ‘world’, and “solar system” when it is not ours:
    • They went on to the sunrise.
    • The sun didn't warm anything.
    • She slept in the sun.
    • The sun gets faster and faster.
    • The third planet of the solar system is Earth.
    • The asteroid interposed between Earth and Moon.
    • He fought for the disinherited of the earth.
    • He's the dumbest guy on earth.
    • They did not discover any land in the new solar system discovered.
    • Tonight there is a full moon (or a new moon, or a growing room).
    • They sat at the moonlight.
    • I've never heard the sonata. Moonlight.
    • He declared his love to the moonlight.
    • He doesn't pay attention because he's always on the moon.
    • The moons of Jupiter.

Generic or merely descriptive names (even if they refer to a single reality) are lowercase:

• the polar star
• solar system
• the universe

Roman numerals

Generally, Roman numerals are written in capital letters:

• Henry VIII
• John Paul II.

Titles of dignity

Titles and positions are in lower case:

• Don (“I saw such a don Juan”).
• St. Jacob, St. Yago, St. Iago, Apostle Sant'iago.
• Holy (I pray to the Holy Rosary).
  • The Holy One bears a capital if used as his own name: "All-powerful, give me your gifts; Holy, give us peace"
• Redeemer (the Redeemer Christ).
• Monsignor (“Dear Monsignor, Lead the Wedding” or “It was perpetrated by Monsignor Storni”).
• Mr. (“Come, please, Mr. López”).
  • Mr. (“Come, please, Mr. López”).
  • Lord bears capital when used as his own name ('O Lord, I am not worthy of you to enter').

Some people want some positions, titles or names of dignity to have a capital letter when they refer to a specific person, without expressly mentioning their proper name: However, the use of this capital letter dignity is not recommended, since it is difficult to discriminate from which position deserves that dignity:

• president (such as "the boss").
  • The current President came in March.
• The Pope came in March (appeared to “the boss came in March”).
  • The Pope came in March.
• King Juan Carlos came in March.
• The king came in March (the chief came in March).
  • The King came in March.
• Cacica came in March.
  • The Cacica came in March.
• The sheik came in March.
  • The Sheikh came in March.
• The dressmaker came in March.
  • The Modista came in March.

Posts are in lower case, but institutions are in upper case:

• She was appointed Secretary General of the United Nations.
• The managing director of the International Monetary Fund.
• President of the Republic, Isabel Perón.
• The janitor won't come.
• Chief Perez has all the power.
• Susana is an important member.
• Susana is an important member.
• She was named a police officer.
• He was the first officer of the provincial police.
• The vigilante imprisoned him.
• Gandhi was appointed first minister of India.
• Because of the machismo, in the Catholic Church they will never allow obispas, and, less, Archbishops.
• The Catholic Church is gradually reneging on machismo, so soon they will order priestesses.
• It was mentioned by the cardinal primate of the Nation.
• The times when the Church will allow women to reach papyruses are coming.
• The doctor took care of it.
• The teacher was paid as official court music.

Tilde

Abbreviations and acronyms

When acronyms have four letters or less, they must be written in all capital letters:

• CIA (Central Intelligence Agency of the United States), although it pronounces /cia/ (and did not /cé í a/) should not carry tilde, because it is an acronym of less than four letters.
  • Cía should not be written, which is the abbreviation of "company".
• INEI (National Institute of Statistics and Computers), is pronounced /inéi/ (and no /í éne é í/).
• NATO, which in Latin America is pronounced /otan/ and in Spain /otan/.

When acronyms are proper nouns and have more than four letters, only the initial is capitalized:

• Ansés, who wears tilde for being an acute word finished in n or s.
  • Instead, if ANSES were to be written, it should not be tilde and it should be pronounced.
• Náscar (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing: National Association of Series Car Racing), pronounced /náskar/.
  • If NASCAR is to be written, it should not be tilde and it should be pronounced /yene to that cé a ére/ (very unusual).
• Unesco (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization).
• Unicef.

When acronyms become common nouns (due to usage) and have more than four letters, they must be written in all lowercase:

• laser (which has a tilde for being a serious word finished in consonant).
• ovni.
• Pulse.
• radar.
• Sida.
• uvi (Intensive Surveillance Unit).

Digraphs

In Spanish or Castilian, when a word begins with the letters ch, gu, ll or qu, only the first letter is capitalized: Chaurasia, Guernica, Lloyd, Quevedo; this was already the case when c, ch, l and ll were alphabetized separately.

When these digraphs make up an acronym, only the first of its components must be written with a capital letter:

• RPCh (People ' s Republic of China).

Capitalization in Other Languages

In languages like German, all nouns start with a capital letter. In languages that have digraphs (such as IJ in Dutch), when these must be written in capital letters, the two letters that form them are often written like this, and not just the first (in the case of IJsselmeer).

In English, all important words in a title are usually capitalized at the beginning:

• Brave New World,
• One Hundred Years of Solitude,
• The Sorrows of Young Werther.