Why are they capitalized and hyphenated?

Hi,

You know there isn't some sort of government body that goes around inspecting 100% of everything that people write. You will often find errors in things. People also prefer different styles. You can't ask why this writer decided to do what he or she did, only they know that. I would have given Federal a capital myself, but not popular nanes. 'th' is perfectly acceptable if that is their company style.

Hi there,

The noun here appears to be Popular Names listing so “the” is the determiner for the whole thing. No apostrophe is required in this case. Although why Popular Names is capitalised is anybody’s guess. As the helpful Nona advises, I wouldn’t get too hung up on anything you read on a company product. These are often very badly worded, or unintelligible- even to native speakers!

Hyphenating is not necessary, and it would give an inelegant look to the phrase. Simmilarly there is no need to hyphenate "full text" as the original has done.

To make clear that Popular Names Listing is one noun or subject, all of the words could be capitalised as they are in this sentence. The alternative would be to write "the list of popular names" (with or without the capitals!). But bear in mind that "list of.." does not imply possession in this case. It would be wrong, for example, to write "the popular names' listing".

- Nick