Anonymous  +  204008 Tue, 07 Mar 06 01:41 PM Hi, I found this writing from a brochure and why are the underlined words capitalized and the colored word hypehenated?  US Code on CD-ROM contains the consolidated full-text of all 50 titles of the Federal government offiicial compendium of US laws in effect as of Janurary 16th, 1986. Includes the Popular Names listing.  Also, why the date, January 16th, have "th" in it for I know some grammar books say (literally) that it is not used in formal writings?   Anonymous Grammar, Dates

	nona the brit  +  204066 Tue, 07 Mar 06 06:19 PM 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. nona the brit Joined on Wed, Sep 22 2004 England Veteran Member 11,713 The name says it all.

	Nick147  +  204216 Wed, 08 Mar 06 02:56 AM 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! Nick147 Joined on Sat, Feb 25 2006 London, UK Junior Member 58 `When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean.' Humpty Dumpty - Through the Looking Glass Nouns, Apostrophes, Determiners

	Believer  +  204263 Wed, 08 Mar 06 06:17 AM Here in "the Popular Names listing," can you use the words "Popular Names" as a sort of adjective? Don't you need to hyphenate somewhere? If you do, where would you put it?   Believer Joined on Mon, Jan 2 2006 Contributing Member 1,969

	Nick147  +  204382 Wed, 08 Mar 06 05:22 PM 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 Nick147 Nouns

	Believer  +  204495 Thu, 09 Mar 06 02:43 AM Thank you for your laborious yet  appreciated explanation. This might be what has happened. The entity that published this article to the public might had a separate public paper/list that was headed "Popular Names" and to make a reference to that list, they capitalized the words "Popular Names." Again, sorry for dragging this thing out for long but I had to because I didn't understand fully. Again I welcome all feedbacks.         Believer Articles