Capitalize Days, Months, Holidays, and Religious Days
Capitalization
Rulebase Summary
Capitalize the names of days of the week, months, holidays, and religious observances — Wednesday, January, Christmas, Passover Seder, New Year's Eve, Easter, Hanukkah. Do not capitalize the seasons of the year — spring, summer, fall, winter.
Examples
A. The accident occurred on a wednesday in january.
A. The accident occurred on a Wednesday in January.
Days of the week and months of the year are always capitalized.
A. We visited them in the Spring of 2019.
A. We visited them in the spring of 2019.
Seasons of the year are not capitalized.
Transcript Notes
Capitalize months, days, holidays (New Year's Eve, Fourth of July, Valentine's Day), and special days (Election Day, Veterans' Day, Presidents' Day). Do NOT capitalize the names of seasons (spring, summer, fall, winter), unless personified — which is rare in reporting. For long-weekend holidays like Memorial Day Weekend and Labor Day Weekend, capitalize the entire expression.
Style Guide References (5)
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