Field Notes

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Agreement

Agreement & Concord — Complete Map

Every article in the Agreement pillar, mapped. Start with the opener below.

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Capitals

Capitalising the First Word of a Sentence

Re-reading that 4:55 Friday email, the second paragraph forgets to capitalise a sentence

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Capitals

Proper Nouns & Proper Adjectives — The Core Rule

Your essay gets a pink underline under 'romeo' — proper nouns and adjectives, capitalised for good

Roger Fielding 12 min read
Capitals

Special Capitalisation Cases: Getting "I", Acronyms, Brand Styling and Religious Terms Right

IPhone lowercases its own name, yet English never lowercases I — the quirks worth knowing

Roger Fielding 12 min read
Capitals

Capitalisation in Letters, Emails, Headings & Lists

Stuck between Dear and Hi with an empty subject line — capitalisation for emails, headings and lists, sorted

Roger Fielding 12 min read
Capitals

Two Rules Capitals Hang From

Two anchor rules answer most of it — everything else is just one of them stretching

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Capitals

Capitalisation — Complete Map

Every article in the Capitals pillar, mapped. Start with the opener below.

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Spelling

Spelling Systems — UK vs US at a Glance

Colour or color, organise or organize — the six real splits between UK and US spelling

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Spelling

Commonly Confused Words — Start Here

Affect or effect, fewer or less, their or there — one map for every mix-up you keep making

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Spelling

Affect or Effect?

The war affected daily life, or did it effect a change — the verb-noun split, finally clear

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Spelling

UK vs US Vocabulary — Start Here

One language, two spellings: colour vs color, lift vs elevator, and the split that trips everyone up

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Spelling

Everyday Vocabulary (Holiday or Vacation?)

A job ad says vacation, your calendar says holiday — the everyday words that quietly change meaning

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