Submitted by Jesse Russell on Thu, 2008-02-07 14:12.
Yep. I'm completely wrong on using "downtown" as a preposition and meant something else, but I actually have no idea what I meant to write.
What they have been doing is capitalizing "downtown" any time it appears in an article even if it just describing a general section of the city. I may be wrong (again) but I don't think Madison's downtown is actually the name of that region of the city.
I don't have the articles in front of me, but here is an example of what it looks like:
"Jane went Downtown to buy groceries."
That just seems wrong. Maybe WSJ has always capitalized "downtown" and I only noticed now because of the new hip and flashy section?
My bad
Yep. I'm completely wrong on using "downtown" as a preposition and meant something else, but I actually have no idea what I meant to write.
What they have been doing is capitalizing "downtown" any time it appears in an article even if it just describing a general section of the city. I may be wrong (again) but I don't think Madison's downtown is actually the name of that region of the city.
I don't have the articles in front of me, but here is an example of what it looks like:
"Jane went Downtown to buy groceries."
That just seems wrong. Maybe WSJ has always capitalized "downtown" and I only noticed now because of the new hip and flashy section?