Date-lines, omission of period after, 12.
Dates: use of dash to connect, 13; abbreviation of, 65–66; _st_, _d_, _rd_, and _th_, to be omitted, 65; of letters, where placed, when capitalized and italicized, 30; _ult._, _inst._, and _prox._, not used, 65; the Dewey, 66; of letters, 115.
Days of week: capitalization of, 23; abbreviation of, 65–66.
Decades, specific references to, spelled out, 32.
Degrees: capitalization and abbreviations of, 25; use of comma separating, from name of person, 6.
Derivation, influence of, in division, 52, 53.
Diction, correct and faulty, 99–113; Dr. Campbell’s canons, 99; use of standard authors, 100; list of words and phrases, 101–113.
Directions, use of brackets in indicating, 18.
Disbelief, in statement, indicated by use of exclamation-point, 15.
Display composition, use of period after, 12.
Division of words: rules for, 52–54; avoid unnecessary, 52; on two letters to be avoided, 53.
Divisional mark, avoid separating from matter it pertains to, 54.
Dollars ($), no space between symbol and following figures, 60; table of monetary signs, 90–91.
Dynasties: capitalization of names, 29; numbers of, to be spelled out, 32.
Ecclesiastical appellations, capitalization of, 26.
Ellipses: comma indicating, 7; period indicating, 12; to be treated as part of quotation, 17.
Emphasis, rhetorical: use of dash to secure, 13; of exclamation-point, 15; of paragraph, 57–58; of italics, 62.
En échelon indention: described, 56; use of in addressing letters, 116;
Enumerations, use of parentheses in connection with letters or figures used to express subdivisions in, 18.
Envelopes, rules for addressing, 123–124.
Epithets: capitalized when used as proper names, 22; hyphenization of compound personal, 49.
European countries, weights and measures of, 159–160.
“Every place,” written _everywhere_, 104.
Evil One, the capitalization of names for, 21.
Exclamation-point: proper use of, 14–15; with quotation-marks, 14–15; origin, 15; expressing strong emotion, 15; sarcasm or doubt, 15; use of, with comma, 15; as distinguished from vocative, 15; use of hair-space preceding, 59.
Expositions, capitalization of names of, 25.
“Fathers”: capitalization of, 24; use of compounds with, 47.
Figures: rules for use of, 31–33; use of apostrophe to indicate omission of, 19; used to mark divisions in enumerations, to be placed in parentheses, 18; percentage, figures always to be used, 31; use of, in statistics, 32; spacing of, 59; spacing between, and $, £, 60.