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Capitalisation of company names starting with a lower case letter?

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IShallWearMidnight · 14/10/2012 16:35

I'm proofreading some stuff at the moment, and this has me confused. If a sentence starts with "eBay" or "iTunes", do you capitalise the first letter? It looks wrong not to, but very strange to have "EBay". What do you reckon?

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greenhill · 14/10/2012 16:50

It is a trademarked name, so should be spelt / written as iTunes etc.

That is my opinion though, not an actual fact.

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HoratiaWinwood · 14/10/2012 16:56

I think you leave it small (ie go back and undo computer's automatic capitalisation).

Guardian Style agrees.

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IShallWearMidnight · 14/10/2012 17:14

thanks, that's what I've done, even though it makes me twitch Smile

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MirandaGoshawk · 16/10/2012 19:13

It would make me twitch too if it's at the start of a sentence. But I would follow the advice above after coming on here, as you did!.

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