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"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
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