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Shortened version of an organisation name - still a proper noun?

  • 10-02-2013 11:34AM
    #1
    Unregistered39
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 408 ✭✭


    Morning,

    If I am writing a piece about the Society of Chartered Surveyors and just refer to it as 'the Society' throughout, is it still considered a proper noun and given a capital S?

    Similarly, there is an organisation mentioned and the branches of this organisation are known as conferences. I would much rather not give this a capital C as I have an aversion to capitals anyway but grammatically should it get a capital?

    Many thanks.


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  • #2
    Yakuza
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,130 ✭✭✭Yakuza


    I would use capitals in both those instances, to remove any confusion that using the lower case form of the word might use. Define "the Society" as meaning "the Society of Chartered Surveyors " at the start of the document and it will be clear from then on what you mean.


  • #3
    Unregistered39
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 408 ✭✭Unregistered39


    Yakuza wrote: »
    I would use capitals in both those instances, to remove any confusion that using the lower case form of the word might use. Define "the Society" as meaning "the Society of Chartered Surveyors " at the start of the document and it will be clear from then on what you mean.

    Thanks Yakuza. I'll do just that.


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