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Capitalization Examples
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Consumer Price Index (official title); the price index; the index; but a consumers' price index (descriptive)
Continent, only if following name; North American Continent; the continent; but the Continent (continental Europe)
Continental:
Army; the Army
Congress; the Congress
Divide (see Divide)
Outer Continental Shelf
Shelf; the shelf; a continental shelf
continental Europe, United States, etc.
Continentals (Revolutionary soldiers)
Convention, governmental (U.S.), international, or national political; the convention:
89th National Convention of the American Legion
Constitutional (United States, 1787); the Convention
Democratic National; Democratic
Genocide (international)
on International Civil Aviation
Republican National; Republican
Universal Postal Union; Postal Union
also International Postal; Warsaw
copper age (see Ages)
Corporation, if part of name; the Corporation, if referring to unit of Federal Government:
Commodity Credit
Federal Deposit Insurance
National Railroad Passenger (Amtrak)
Rand Corp.; the corporation
St. Lawrence Seaway Development
Union Carbide Corp.; the corporation
Virgin Islands
Corps, if part of name; the corps, all other uses:
Adjutant General's
Army Reserve
Chemical
diplomatic
Finance
Foreign Service Officer (see Foreign Service)
Job
Judge Advocate General's
Marine (see Marine Corps)
Medical
Military Police
Nurse
of Cadets (West Point)
of Engineers; Army Engineers; the Engineers; but Army engineer; the corps
Ordnance
Peace; Peace Corpsman; the corpsman
Quartermaster
Reserve Officers' Training (ROTC)
VII Corps, etc.
Signal
Transportation
Youth
but diplomatic corps
corpsman; hospital corpsman
corridor, Northeast
Council, if part of name; capitalized standing alone if referring to Federal or international unit (see also United Nations):
Boston City; the council
Choctaw, etc.; the council
Her Majesty's Privy Council; the Privy Council; the Council
National Security; the Council
of Foreign Ministers (NATO); the Council
of the Organization of American States; the Council
Philadelphia City; the council
counsel; general counsel
County, Prince George's; county of Prince George's; County Kilkenny, etc.;