Uppercase or lowercase "'em"?

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Morning all

Question about style:

Should it be

Hit ’Em Up or Hit ’em Up

Thank you
Tis

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In my opinion, I would say “Hit 'Em Up.” Them would be capitalized, so 'Em should as well.

The English style guideline has this statement:

(4) Capitalize contractions and slang consistent with the rules above to the extent that such clearly apply. For example, do not capitalize o’ for “of”, ‘n’ or n’ for “and”.

It’s unfortunate that the examples given only include contractions that would normally be lower-cased, but I think the rule applies both ways. This might be a good addition to the examples.

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Oke thank you Beckfield.

I dont know what to do now: Edit #125959829 - Edit work

it’s so confusing. Should I cancel my edit?

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Your edit was already applied, so you can’t cancel it. It will just have to be re-edited to change it back.

Oh, looks like someone already did.

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Oke thank you beckfield

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Hit 'Em Up - All words in title case should ignore the apostrophe and capitalize the first letter after that if that whole word would normally be capitalized. So, 'Em, 'Bout, etc. all should be capitalized. Guess case erroneously lowercases them.

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Thank you Tigerman :slight_smile:

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For what it’s worth, the code explicitly and intentionally lowercases 'em - and has done so for at least 15 years. This is the list of stuff lowercased after apostrophe:

 * we got an 's (It is = It's), lowercase
 * we got an 'all (Y'all = You all), lowercase
 * we got an 'em (Them = 'em), lowercase.
 * we got an 've (They have = They've), lowercase.
 * we got an 'd (He had = He'd), lowercase.
 * we got an 'cha (What you = What'cha), lowercase.
 * we got an 're (You are = You're), lowercase.
 * we got an 'til (Until = 'til), lowercase.
 * we got an 'way (Away = 'way), lowercase.
 * we got an 'round (Around = 'round), lowercase
 * we got a 'mon (Come on = C'mon), lowercase

There’s no info anywhere about why these specific words were picked. There’s been some discussion in the past in MBS-3193 - if people think we should change some of these, we can, feel free to comment on that ticket about it (should that apply to only the ones that usually appear on their own?)

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