Grammar

A collective noun, to be clear, is a noun that refers to something comprising a number of people or things—like the words family, group, duo, and team. Typically the verb that follows can be either singular or plural in form, depending on whether the individuals who make up the collective noun are acting together or separately.

Italicize franchise names, however, when referring to a media series: e.g., “the Saw movies,”

•Most Indonesians don’t use family names in the way Westerners do; their names may be based on factors including geography, social standing, and religious influences.

The bigger-picture creation (the “mother,” if you will) takes italics, while the components within it (the “baby” creations) take quotation marks. You’d put book titles in italics but chapter names in quotes;

•In Icelandic names, siblings have different surnames—typically patronymic, with a person’s name rooted in the given name of their father.

As a stand-in for the word to, to signify a time range, as in March 2010–April 2017, or direction, as in the Chicago–Miami flight

Use ing or an apostrophe + d to create the verb form of an all-capped abbreviation

“Standard practice in entertainment coverage is never to capitalize a job title except when it starts a sentence. The same goes for every position on a movie set: ‘director Martin Scorsese,’ ‘screenwriter Tina Fey,’ etc.

1982 [the first recorded instance of the digital emoticon]

The BuzzFeed Style Guide advises that individual Tumblr blog names should be capitalized and set in roman type,