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 Capitalize— whether in direct address or otherwise; as His Majesty, Her Grace, His Holiness, Your Excellency, Your Honor, Your Lordship; words indicating relationship, when used with the name of the person addressed or spoken of; as, Father William, Mother Hubbard, Brother James, Aunt Mary, Uncle John.

In the case of governmental officers, the title when following the name; as, William H. Taft, President of the United States; George V, King of England; Eugene N. Foss, Governor of Massachusetts.

Titles like Ph.D., M.P., and F.R.G.S. (such abbreviations to be set without space between the letters).

Adjectives and nouns used, singly or in conjunction, to distinguish definite regions or parts of the world; as, Old World, Western Hemisphere, North Pole, Equator, Bad Lands, Cherokee Strip, Continental Divide, the North, South, East, West, Middle West, Central West, Northwest, Orient, Occident, the Continent (continental Europe).

Sections of the world, as, Circle, Hemisphere, and Pole, when preceded by a name; also the Antarctic, the Arctic, Free Zone, Frigid Zone.

The following terms, singular or plural forms, when immediately following a name or when part of a name: Aqueduct, Archipelago, Bay, Bayou, Branch, Building, Butte, Camp, Canal, Canyon, Cape, County, Crater, Creek, Dalles, Desert, Dome, Draw, Falls, Fork, Fort, Gap, Glacier, Gulch, Harbor, Head, Hill, Hollow, Island, Isle, Mesa, Mount, Mountain, Narrows, Oasis, Ocean, Parish, Park, Pass, Peak, Plateau, Point, Port, Range, Reservoir, Ridge, River, Run, Sea, Shoal, Spring, Square, Strait, Street, Tunnel, Valley, Volcano.


 * But words of this class, when simply added by way of description to the specific name, without forming an organic part of such name, are not capitalized; as, the river Charles, the island of Cuba.

The following terms when standing alone and used as synonyms for well-known geographical names; also when used as adjectives: Canal Zone (Panama), Delta (of the Mississippi or the Nile), Falls (Niagara), Gulf (of Mexico), Isthmus (of Panama or Suez), Lakes (Great Lakes), Sound (Long Island), Peninsula (Spain).

Generic terms for political divisions:—


 * (a) When the term is an organic part of the name; as,