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Grammar curmudgeons - help please

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prufrock · 18/06/2007 23:06

Just about to print out advert for job in pre-school. Are we a Pre-school, a preschool, a Pre-School? Does that change if it's the capitalized title ie Rainbow Pre-School, Pre-School Manager

Help. And please don't call me stupid, I know I should know this but i've written the bloody word so many times tonight it looks wrong every way

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PinkMartini · 18/06/2007 23:08

Haven't got a scooby on this one (despite having my own pedant's thread on AIBU earlier)
Bumping for you.

edam · 18/06/2007 23:12

What style do you usually use? What does your letterhead say?

I'd certainly hypenate pre-school. Would probably go Rainbow Pre-School, pre-school manager (or Manager, if you wish.)

prufrock · 18/06/2007 23:15

Thank you edam (and pm for the bump) Ouyr letterhead says Rainbow Pre-School. And so the pre-school manager needs all caps as well i think when it's a bolded job title

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WendyWeber · 18/06/2007 23:18

Agree with edam - I think pre-school is generic and Pre-School is specific (iyswim)

edam · 18/06/2007 23:19

Style books have been moving against capping up job titles for a long, long time, though, and given it's following all those other initial caps, I really would leave it. Otherwise It's All Too Difficult To Read. As in, caps interrupt the flow. (Did you know we read by recognising the shapes of words, not the individual letters, once we have learnt to read in the first place? So lots of initial caps, or several words in block caps, or even sans serif font, are offputting to readers.)

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