Have the rules changed on me? The following is a sentence from a native speaker of American English who is on a graduate fellowship or visiting professorship-I forget which-with a Flemish university. (I had considered myself an expert in punctuation until now). "But one does capitalize the initial letter of the first word in a *sentence* following a colon, as then the colon is functioning as a terminal mark of punctuation, and hence the capitalization is a useful signal to the reader that it is being used as such and what follows is a complete sentence and not a list of clauses." Scott Catledge To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html and select "Join or leave the list" Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/