Spelling, capitalization, and punctuation rules of “unusual” and fictional words (commonly screwed up by the author). Disclaimer: You would think I know this stuff, but I’m an idiot. -James R. Tramontana
- Band names are just capitalized (unless spelled goofy)
- Album titles are italicized
- Basset Hound
- Betty and T.U.R.D. (are vessels and always italicized)
- Crash-A-Rama
- dazzler (not capitalized)
- dataport
- Figure eight and figure-eight
- Adjective is hyphenated
- Noun is not hyphenated
- GalactoNet
- Genres of music are not capitalized (jazz, punk)
- help desk (two words not capitalized)
- Historical eras of music are capitalized (the Baroque, the Classical era, the Renaissance, the Romantic piano)
- hypertime
- Jeez (always italicized)
- Okay
- Retcon Team Six
- Skunk Ape
- Skycraft
- Song titles are “In Quotes”
- spacetime
- Super-advanced 4D haptic holoscreens
- TCB
- tallboy
- time jump (two words not hyphenated)
- timecar
- timeship
- timedrive
- Trampoline Grrrl
- Ultra-titanium
- Yeaaah