- AM and PM
- alumna (female); alumnae (female plural); alumnus (masculine); alumni (masculine plural or mixed group)
- biblical (capitalize Bible but not biblical)
- board of directors, board of trustees (not capitalized), use the board, the trustees or the directors on second reference
- campus (lowercased) even when used as St. Davids campus
- capital (city); capitol (building)
- catalog
- course work
- database
- Dean’s List
- Eastern University: when referring to Eastern University throughout, capitalize “the University. ” But “a university” should NOT be capitalized.
- Fast-Track MBA® is a Registered Trademark of Eastern University, obtained in January, 2000. It must always be written as shown here. The first time it is used on a page, the following words must be included on the same page: ® Registered in U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Note: The phrase “ ® Registered in U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.” may be in italics and smaller type than the body copy of your text.
- Fax
- Try to use first-year student but when you are unable to remember that: Freshmen is plural, freshman year, freshman students (when used as an adjective)
- full time (noun and adverb); full-time (adjective)
- gospel (capitalize when referring to any of the four books of the Bible, such as the Gospel of Luke; lowercase in other references such as gospel singer)
- home page (two words)
- inner city (noun); inner-city (adjective)
- Internet
- laptop (adjective and noun)
- McInnis Learning Center
- multi (most compounds formed with multi are one word such as multicultural)
- nonprofit
- online
- Scriptures
- software
- sophomore
- St. Davids (not 's)
- theatre
- versus
- vita (singular) vitae (plural)
- Washington, D.C.
- Web site
- World Wide Web
- worldview (one word)
- waterwheel (one word)