days of the week-Capitalization

Question

I am confused! I decided to read an article about Capitalization (Spanish) and it stated that days of the week and months of the year use lower-case letters. I grew up in Puerto Rico and we were always told that they used upper-case letters. So, I have always, and I mean always use Martes, or Diciembre when translating documents instead of using lower-case letters.

Am I wrong?

Welcome to the forum! - --Mariana--, Jul 28, 2011

thanks Mariana - kclu787, Jul 28, 2011

Answer 1

Hola!

Yes, days of the week and months aren't capitalized. That's funny how you grew up learning that they were...

It looks a little funny at first, especially if you're a native English speaker, but that's just one way Spanish greatly differs from English!!

Hoy es jueves. Today is Thursday.

En enero, fuiste a México. In January, you went to Mexico.

yeah, this rule is killing me. I just spoke to two other native Spanish speakers who were also thought the same and were very surprise when I sent them the article. - kclu787, Jul 28, 2011

Puerto Rico is territory of the US, so maybe that's why you learned that they were capitalized! - SonrisaDelSol, Jul 28, 2011

throwin the differences between capitalizing languages or not...commonly misused. - 0074b507, Jul 28, 2011

Answer 2

Yes, in Spanish the days of the week and the months of the year and not capitalized.

Answer 3

Possibly because you grew up in Puerto Rico...which is american ruled, the English standards may have been taught to elimite confusion between Puerto Rico and the rest of the United States.

I don't believe that I have ever seen American not capitalized in English.....American indian....whether it means US or Americas. - 0074b507, Jul 28, 2011