Commercial terms, abbreviation of, 76–77.
“Company”: capitalization of, 23; abbreviation of, 66; use of (&) with, 66.
Compass: capitalization of points of, 22, 23, 24; hyphenization of points of, 49.
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,” 51; “ex,” 47; “extra,” 48; “eye,” 51; “father,” 47; “fellow,” 47; “foster,” 47; “general,” 47; “god,” 47; “half,” 47; “holder,” 51; “in,” 50; “infra,” 48; “inter,” 50; “intra,” 50; (negative prefix), 50; “life,” 47; “like,” 49; “man,” 49; “master,” 47; “mid,” 46; “monger,” 51; “mother,” 47; “non-,” 50; “over,” 50; “parent,” 47; “post,” 50; “pre,” 47–48; “pseudo,” 51; “quarter,” 47; “quasi,” 48; “re,” 47–48; “school,” 51; “self,” 47; “semi,” 48, 50; “sister,” 47; “sub,” 50; “sulpho,” 51; “super,” 50; “supra,” 48; “thermo,” 51; “to,” 50; “tree,” 49; “tri,” 50; “ultra,” 48; “un” (negative prefix), 50; “under,” 50; “vice,” 46; “woman,” 49; “world,” 47.
Concealed mail matter, law concerning, 133.
Congress: sessions of, capitalization, 29; numbers of, spelled out, 32.
Conjunctions: use of comma with, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8; capitalization of, in titles of books and essays, 26.
Consonants, construction of, rules for division of words, 52–53.
Constellations, names of, italicized, 64.
Contraction of word, use of apostrophe, 19.
Conventions, capitalization of names of, 25.
Corporations, capitalization of names, of abbreviations, and of “Co.,” 23.
Corrections, indicated by use of brackets, 18.
Correctness, a requisite of discourse, 99.
Criticisms, indicated by use of brackets, 18.
Cut-in side notes, omission of period after, 12.
Dashes: use of, with changed construction, dates, abrupt terminations, rhetorical emphasis, verse and page references, short, snappy sentences, omitted letters, concluding clauses, 13; for separating subject-matter from its authority, 13; to precede addition to completed sentence, 14; substitution of, for commas or parenthesis, 14; with colon, to mark long quotation, 14; substitution of, for quotation-marks, 14; misuse of, 12; rules for, 13–14; use in France, 14; use of hair-space with, 59; examples of, 60; use of in salutatory phrases of letters, 117.