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 prominence, but puts the line out of balance. A much better method is to put honorary titles, when there are many, in small type in a separate line below the name, and to spell out all the words.

A title not clearly intended as the synonym of a specified person should not begin with a capital.

Prepositional words ushering foreign proper names usually begin with a capital, as De or D' in French; Da, Delia, De, or Di in Italian; Van in Dutch, or Von in German; but there are prefixes that do not begin with a capital, and when the author sys