The Writer's Desk Book / Being a Reference Volume upon Questions of Punctuation, Capitalization, Spelling, Division of Words, Indention, Spacing, Italics, Abbreviations, Accents, Numerals, Faulty Diction, Letter Writing, Postal Regulations, Etc.

INDEX

William Dana Orcutt

">“Can’t seem,” correct use of, 103.

Capitalization:

of religious terms, 20–22;
of proper names, 22–24;
of titles, 24–26;
of institutional terms, 26–28;
of references, 28;
of ordinals, 29;
in general, 29–30;
of abbreviation of academic degrees, 25;
of abstract ideas personified, 23;
of acts juridical, 27;
of adjectives derived from proper nouns, 22;
of adjectives and nouns designating definite geographical regions, 22;
of astronomical terms, 23;
of political alliances, 27;
of books of the Bible, 20;
of titles of books, 26;
of botanical terms, 23;
of buildings, 23;
of “church,” 20;
of civic titles, 25;
of word following a colon, 26;
of compound titles, 21;
of hyphenated compounds, 29;
of sessions of Congress, 29;
of conventions, 25;
of corporations?—?names and abbreviations, 23;
of names of dynasties, 29;
of ecclesiastical appellations, 26;
of epithets used as proper names, 22;
of titles of essays, 26;
of “father,” 22;
of “Fathers”?—?early church, 22;
of foreign titles, as prefixes, 25–26;
of geographical terms, 22–23;
of geological terms, 23;
of “gospel,” 20–21;
of “government,” 25;
of historical epochs, 22;
of holidays, 26–27;
of judiciary bodies, with phrases, inverted and in opposition, 5–6;
before “of” in connection with residence, 7;
in salutatory phrase, 7, 117;
in inverted sentences, 5;
separating titles from names, 6;
separating vocative words, 7;
substitution of dashes for, 14;
use of with exclamation point, 15;
rules for use of, 4–8;
omitted with pronouns used with nouns for emphasis, 8.

Comments, notes of, inclosed in brackets, 18.

Commercial terms, abbreviation of, 76–77.

“Common,” correct use of, 103.

“Company”:

capitalization of, 23;
abbreviation of, 66;
use of (&) with, 66.

Compass:

capitalization of points of, 22, 23, 24;
hyphenization of points of, 49.

Complimentary close, of letters, 121.

Compound:

adjectives, 46;
adverbs, 51.

Compound titles, spelling, abbreviation, and capitalization of, 68–96.

Compound words:

general theory of and rules for, 45–51;
list of, 49;
division of, to be avoided, 54.

Compounds, hyphenated: capitalization of, 29.

Compounds, with:

“a-” (negative prefix), 50;
“ante,” 50;
“anti,” 50;
“bi,” 50;
“brother,” 47;
“by,” 48;
“co,” 47–48;
“daughter,” 47;
“demi,” 50;
“deutero,” 51;
“elect,” 47;
“electro,” 12.
“Healthful,” correct use of, 105.
“Her,” correct use of, 106.
“Him,” correct use of, 106.
Historical epochs, capitalization of appellation for, 24.
“Hoi polloi,” never preceded by the, 106.
“Holder,” compounds with, 51.
Holidays, capitalization of names of, 26–27.
“Holy,” capitalization of, 21.
“Honorable,” correct use of, 106.
Honorary titles, capitalization of, 25.
“Hung,” distinguished from hanged, 106.
Hyphenated compounds:
- capitalization of, 29;
- avoid division of, 54.
Hyphenization, rules for, 45–51.
Hyphens:
- list of hyphenated words, 49;
- rules for use of, 45–51;
- purpose of, 19;
- use of hair-space with, 59.
- See Compounds.
“I”:
- capitalization of word, 29.
- See under Me.
Ibid., italicized, 64.
-ible and -able. See -able.
-ical, in divisions, 54.
Idem, italicized, 64.
i.e., set in roman, 64.
“If,” correct use of, 106.
Illustrations, legends beneath, omission of period, 12.
“In,” correct use of, 106.
“In-” (negative prefix), compounds with, 50.
Indention:
- rules for, 55–56;
- prose, each paragraph indented, 55;
- numbered paragraphs, treatment of, 55;
- of poetry, reverse indention, 55;
- of quotations, 55;
- different forms of, viz.: En Échelon, Hanging, Half-diamond, Lozenge, Blocked, and Irregular, 55–56;
- use of in addressing letters, 116.
Independent sentences, first word capitalized after colon, 126–128;
the signature, 122–123;
envelope, 123–124;
postal cards, 125;
in general, 125;
business, formal, informal, treatment of, 115–122.

Letters (correspondence):

capitalization, punctuation, etc., rules for, 11, 12, 29;
dates, where placed and when capitalized, 30;
postal regulations, 129–141.

Letters:

use of dash to indicate omission of, 13;
use of apostrophe to indicate omission of, 19;
used to mark divisions in enumerations, to be set in parentheses, 18;
spacing of superior and inferior, 59.

“Liable,” distinguished from likely, 107.

“Life,” compounds with, 47.

“Like,” compounds with, 49.

“Likely,” correct use of, 107.

Linear measure, table of, 150.

Liquid measure, table of, 150.

Literary references: minor subdivisions, not capitalized, 28.

“Loan,” not used as a verb, 107.

“Locate,” distinguished from settle, 107.

Loc. cit., italicized, 64.

“Love,” distinguished from like, 107.

Lozenge indention, described, 56.

“Luxuriant,” distinguished from luxurious, 107.

“Mad,” distinguished from angry, 107.

Magazines. See Periodicals.

Mail matter:

first class, defined, 129;
second class, 129;
third class, 130;
fourth class, 131;
wrapping of, 132;
forwarding of, 132;
what cannot be mailed, 132;
concealed matter, 133;
domestic rates, 134;
foreign rates, 134;
rates for Cuba, Mexico, Canada, and Panama, 26.
“President,”
- capitalization of, 23.
- “Some,” correct use of, 111.
- “Some one,” not a compound word, 51
- “Some place,” written somewhere, 111.
- “Sort.” See under Kind.
- “Sort of,” correct use of, 111.
- Sovereigns, abbreviation of names of, 69.
- Spaces, examples of, 61.
- Spacing:
  - rules for, 59–61;
  - uniformity of, 59;
  - hair-spaces in connection with punctuation marks, 59;
  - of abbreviated titles, 25, 59–60;
  - of Scripture references, 60;
  - of A.M., P.M., etc., 59;
  - symbols and figures, 60;
  - at end of paragraph, 60;
  - in regard to turn-overs, 60;
  - kerned letters, f and j require hair-spaces, 60;
  - wide spacing, 60;
  - examples, dashes and spaces, 60–61;
  - of abbreviations of railroads, 66.
- Special delivery, mail system, 139.
- Species, scientific names of:
  - use of capitals, 23;
  - italicizing of, 64.
- Spelling:
  - rules for, 31–34;
  - difficulties and choice of usages, 31;
  - of decades, ages, centuries, dynasties, 32;
  - of numbers of military bodies, streets, sessions of Congress, 32;
  - of numbers, 31–32;
  - of time of day, 32–33;
  - use of diphthongs, 33;
  - rules of orthography, 33–36, see Orthography;
  - lists of words,?—?accented words, 37;
  - participles, 37;
  - variable endings, -ize, 37–38;
  - ending in -ise, 38;
  - ending in -ible and -able, 39;
  - ending in -sion and -tion,
    The transcriber produced the cover image and hereby assigns it to the public domain.
    Original spelling and grammar have been generally retained, with some exceptions noted below.
    Original printed page numbers are shown in the right like this: {52}.
    Footnotes have been relabeled 1–32.
    Large curly brackets ‘}’ used as graphic devices to combine information over two or more lines of text have been eliminated, restructuring as necessary to retain the original meaning.
    There are many uncommon unicode characters in this book; specialized fonts may be necessary to view them all in the simple text edition. Images of many of them are substituted in the html, epub & mobi editions. Examples—
    - On page 91, the mathematical sign for “The difference between” is shown in the original book as a glyph like a tilde, reproduced here in the html/epub/mobi editions as an image from the printed book. The text edition of this transcription uses ‘?’ (U+224F DIFFERENCE BETWEEN).
    - On page 92, the glyph for “Factorial sign” is shown in the original book as a right angle, roughly L shaped, with a “5” nestled into the angle (the printed example means specifically “factorial of 5”). This form is evidently obsolete, and the transcriber failed to find a Unicode method of representation. So in the text edition the code “[?5]” is substituted, while in the html/epub/mobi editions, an image is used.
    - In the phrase on page 95 "one of those figures, CI?, CD, 8, uncial m", the original book showed an uncial m, reproduced here in the html/epub/mobi editions as an image. The simple text edition of this transcription substitutes ‘?’ (U+217F, SMALL ROMAN NUMERAL ONE THOUSAND) instead. This glyph recurs on page 98.
    To Table of Contents
    Page 60. The second paragraph was printed so as to look approximately like the following: “[...]II Sam. 1 : 2–6; 2 :8–12.”, namely, with equal space on either side of the colon in the first instance and unequal spaces in the second instance. This transcription makes it equal spaces, U+200A (hair space).
    Pages 65–92. The chapter titled ABBREVIATIONS contains several sections: in order, “DATES”, “PROPER NAMES”, “TITLES”, “6. COMMERCIAL ABBREVIATIONS”, “7. GEOGRAPHICAL ABBREVIATIONS”, &c. These are given html heading level code “<h3>” in this transcription. Unfortunately, there were no numbered headings corresponding to numbers 1–5 in the original book, so these are missing from this transcription as well. (There were and remain paragraphs numbered 1–5, with no headings, but those all belong to the section “TITLES”)
    Page 149. In the original table “Weights and Measures”, the first and fifth columns are not directly related to the other three, and arguably do not belong in the table. Therefore, these columns have been stripped out of the table and recast as a nested list ahead of the table.
    Page 152. The phrase “1 lite” was changed to “1 liter”.
    Page 168, Index entry “Compounds, with:”; a pointer to page 50 was added for subentry ‘ “in” ’.

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