Capitalization of titles

Question

When should titles be capitalized in writing:

When addressing someone directly-- Hola SeNora When speaking about someone-- La SeNora Gomez es mi profesora When abbreviating -- La Sra. Gomez es mi profesora

Gracias!

**Señora has a tilde accent on the ñ** but no capital N lol :) - FELIZ77, Sep 28, 2010

Answer 1

Hi, Mrs. Marci. Welcome to the forum.

What Spanish does capitalize are proper names for people, places, newspapers and magazines; abbreviations of personal titles such as Dr., the equivalent of the English "Dr.," and Sr., the equivalent of "Mr."; and the first word in the titles of books, plays, movies and similar works.

In formal written Spanish, titles of movies, books, plays and similar works capitalize only the first word and proper nouns. La guerra de las galaxias ("Star Wars"), Harry Potter y la piedra filosofal ("Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone") Note: In informal written Spanish, and on book covers and movie posters, it is not unusual to see such composition titles capitalized as in English.

To find more information about what is, and isn't capitalized in Spanish, just look on spanish.about.com.

Answer 2

1. Casos en que no debe usarse la mayúscula inicial. Se escriben con minúscula inicial, salvo que la mayúscula venga exigida por la puntuación (? 3), las palabras siguientes:

among them

6.8. Los tratamientos (usted, señor, don, fray, san(to), sor, reverendo, etc.), salvo que se escriban en abreviatura, caso en que se escriben con mayúscula: Ud., Sr., D., Fr., Sto., Rvdo. Solo cuando, por tradición, se han formado acuñaciones que funcionan como nombres propios, se escribirán estos tratamientos en mayúscula: Fray Luis, referido a fray Luis de León; Sor Juana, referido a sor Juana Inés de la Cruz; Santa Teresa, referido a santa Teresa de Jesús.

Hola, señora.

la señora Gomez

la Sra. Gomez