SJC-style-and-production-guide-2012

Ccache/cachet are often confused. ‘Cache’ (pronounced ‘kaysh’) is a collection of hiddenweapons. Whereas ‘cachet’ (pronounced ‘kashay’) means having kudos, style, power.caddie (golf), caddy (tea).callous unfeeling; callus hardened skin.cannon weapon; canon, main body of literary work etc.canvas fabric used in the manufacture of tents or tarpaulins. canvass to seek opinions,informally.capitals Use of capital initial letters is declining as written language moves away from‘officialese’. Overuse of capitals makes reading difficult and is poor design. However, where acapital forms part of the official name or title, it should be retained –The University of Queensland; The Australian; The Age; However,the University of Western Sydney; the Herald Sun.No complete rule can be established on capitalisation but some observations are:i) Organisations’ names used in full should be capitalised but not capitalised when shortened:The University of Queensland/the university, the Immigration Department/the department, theLiberal Party/the party, the Queensland Teachers’ Union/the union, Brisbane City Council/the council, CJC/the commission. ii) Government terms should not be capitalised unless theword has another meaning and is capitalised to show that it is being used in its governmentalsense. Thus ‘Federal Government/Federal Parliament’ and ‘State Government/StateParliament’ if referring to specific governments – the Rudd Federal Government, the BlighState Government. Otherwise ‘federal government funding/parliament’ or ‘state governmentprojects/parliament are not capitalised. Similarly, the ‘federal Opposition’, ‘the Coalition’,‘State Cabinet’, ‘government Minister’, Act, Bill, and Speaker are, but only when makingspecific reference.iii) Convention holds that titles of high public, regal or vice-regal office are capitalised, so: ‘theQueen’ (not ‘Queen Elizabeth’), ‘the Prime Minister’, ‘the Treasurer’, ‘the Attorney-General’,‘the Governor-General’, ‘the Governor’, ‘the US President’. Note, however, that ‘the princess’or ‘the duke’ are lower case, as is the non-specific ‘the queen’.iv) Job titles are generally not capitalised to distinguish them from names and organisations inwhat would otherwise be a long string of capitals. For example: ‘Foxtel chief executive officerJohn Bloggs’. Likewise, ‘state director’, ‘president’, ‘general manager’ and other positionsshould not be capitalised even though it is bureaucratic practice to do so.v) Capitals should be used sparingly with animal names. Use common names ‘sulphur-crestedcockatoo’, ‘blue-tongue lizard’, ‘black bream’, ‘cocker spaniel’, ‘fox terrier’, ‘green tree frog’,‘blue whale’, etc, as well as breed names ‘brahman’, ‘droughtmaster’, ‘mallard’, ‘brangus’,‘braford’ etc.Some common names, such as ‘Siberian tiger’, ‘Welsh corgi’, ‘Old-English sheep dog’,‘French poodle’, ‘Irish wolfhound’ and ‘Queensland blue’, that is, names that retain anexisting, well-known locality name, often retain their capitals, while most place-name breednames have lost theirs. These include ‘afghan’, ‘arab’, ‘chihuahua’, ‘clydesdale’, ‘orpington’,UQ SJC STYLEBOOK 2012 – PAGE 30