When do you capitalize downtown

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November, PM 1. Join Date Mar Posts 3, Lower case "d" downtown vs. Midtown Can anyone explain why downtown is lower case and Midtown is upper case? I noticed this in an article in Sunday's Free Press. Is this a case of 19th century English where words were spelled whatever way the editor thought it best until a standardization came about?

November, PM 2. Join Date Mar Posts 1, If you use the terms generally, such as, I went downtown to buy some shoes, I would not capitalize it, as its a common noun in that sense. There is an excellent book on the subject of downtowns, called appropriately, Downtown, by Robert Fogelson.

It contains extensive discussion of how the terms first came into use and spread to big cities in the U. November, PM 3. Join Date May Posts 3, She works for the Village of Forest Park. That is a City of Chicago ordinance. Capitalize when part of aproper name. For example, The Chicago City Council is meeting tonight. Retain capitalization if the reference is to a specific council but the context does not require the city name.

Lowercase in other uses. How have you been? My favorite author is Jane Austen. Have you met my dog, Boomer? Names are proper nouns. The names of cities, countries, companies, religions, and political parties are also proper nouns, so you should capitalize them, too. We experienced some beautiful Southern California weather last fall when we attended a Catholic wedding in San Diego. You should also capitalize words like mom and grandpa when they are used as a form of address.

Just wait until Mom sees this! My mom is not going to like this. Grammarly can save you from misspellings, grammatical and punctuation mistakes, and other writing issues on all your favorite websites. I have one true passion: wombat racing. When using sentences, use sentence case capitalization; when using phrases, use initial capital letters. The work mayor can be a proper noun or a common noun depending on the context in which it is used.

If Mayor is used to refer to a specific person with a title, then it is capitalized such as: Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Mayor Jenny Durkan. Any proper noun name needs to be capitalized, including languages, dialects, and groups of people.

Capitalize the names of schools on campus when written as a proper noun.