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499.1 Official Names

Capitalize the names of businesses and the official names of their products. (These are called trade names.) Do not, however, capitalize a general descriptive word like bandage when it follows the trade name.

The Gap, Volvo, Microsoft, Levi’s jeans, Band-Aid bandage

499.2 Titles Used with Names

Capitalize titles used with names of persons and abbreviations standing for those titles.

President Xi Jinping  Dr. Seuss

Gov. Katie Hobbs  Mother Teresa

Senator Cory Booker  Sir Ian McKellen

499.3 Titles

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