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Subject:Re: Fall or fall?? From:Gregory Keith <GKeith -at- DELRINA -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 1 Aug 1995 10:59:00 PDT
> From the Chicago Manual of Style, 13 ed.:
> 7.71 Names of days of the week and months of the year are
> capitalized. The four seasons are lowercased (unless personified; see
> 7.31).
> 7.31 gives examples like this one:
> "Then Spring--with her warm showers--arrived."
> Jim Curran
> US Robotics
And of course that's because "fall" is a common noun denoting a class of
things - the season every year also known as autumn - not a proper noun
naming a certain person, place, thing or event, such as "the Fall", which
refers to the specific Biblical event.
Greg
Gregory Keith
Documentation Specialist
Delrina Canada
gkeith -at- delrina -dot- com
"Our minds are porous and forgetfulness seeps in: I myself am distorting and
losing, under the wearing away of the years, the face of Beatriz."
Jorge Luis Borges, The Aleph
