Government vs. government [caps or not]
English translation: government
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|  Selected response from: Kim Metzger Mexico Local time: 11:05 | ||||||
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| 3 +11 | lower case |
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| 4 +2 | No answer.... |
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peer agreement (net): +11
peer agreement (net): +11lower case Explanation: Organisations, acts, etc Organisations, ministries, departments, treaties, acts, etc, generally take upper case when their full name (or something pretty close to it, eg, State Department) is used. Thus, European Commission, Forestry Commission, Arab League, Amnesty International, the Scottish Parliament (the parliament), the Welsh Assembly (the assembly), the Household Cavalry, Ministry of Agriculture, Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA), Treasury, Metropolitan Police, High Court, Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, Senate, Central Committee, Politburo, Oxford University, the New York Stock Exchange, Treaty of Rome, the Health and Safety at Work Act, etc. So too the House of Commons, House of Lords, House of Representatives, St Paul's Cathedral (the cathedral), Bank of England (the Bank), Department of State (the department). But organisations, committees, commissions, special groups, etc, that are either impermanent, ad hoc, local or relatively insignificant should be lower case. Thus: the subcommittee on journalists' rights of the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party, the international economic subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the Oxford University bowls club, Market Blandings rural district council. Use lower case for rough descriptions (the safety act, the American health department, the French parliament, as distinct from its National Assembly). If you are not sure whether the English translation of a foreign name is exact or not, assume it is rough and use lower case. Parliament and Congress are upper case. But the opposition is lower case, even when used in the sense of her majesty's loyal opposition. The government, the administration and the cabinet are always lower case. In America acts given the names of their sponsors (eg, Glass-Steagall, Gramm-Rudman) are always rough descriptions and so take a lower-case act. The full name of political parties is upper case, including the word party: Republican Party, Labour Party, Peasants' Party. Note that usually only people are Democrats, Christian Democrats, Liberal Democrats or Social Democrats; their parties, policies, committees, etc, are Democratic, Christian Democratic, Liberal Democratic or Social Democratic (although a committee may be Democrat-controlled). The exceptions are Britain's Liberal Democrat Party and Thailand's Democrat Party. When referring to a specific party, write Labour, the Republican nominee, a prominent Liberal, etc, but use lower case in looser references to liberals, conservatism, communists, etc. Tories, however, are upper case. Reference: http://www.economist.com/research/StyleGuide/index.cfm |
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