Talk:A Little Pretty Pocket-Book

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A Little Pretty Pocketbook → A Little Pretty Pocket-Book –

Correct capitalisation of the book title, rather than Pocketbook or Pocket Book

See scan of title page at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=rbc3&fileName=rbc0001_2003juv05880page.db&recNum=10 Andy Dingley (talk) 21:21, 29 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Should that be "Pocket-Book" or "Pocket-book"? I've always assumed the latter.--T. Mazzei (talk) 07:02, 31 October 2011 (UTC)


 * The title page is very obviously hyphenated. As it's set in ALL CAPS rather than Mixed Case or Small Caps it's hard to tell definitively whether it's "A little pretty pocket-book", "A Little Pretty Pocket-Book" or "A Little Pretty Pocket-book", but the convention from other books would suggest capitalisation after the hyphen too and so "A Little Pretty Pocket-Book". Andy Dingley (talk) 10:01, 31 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Doing some research, there appear to be two lines of thought that apply in this case: capitalize the second word if it is a noun (Pocket-Book), or capitalize the second word only if it is a proper noun (Pocket-book). So either capitalization is "valid". Note, the Wikisource text (since it was transcribed by me) uses Pocket-book--T. Mazzei (talk) 02:59, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
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The article currently reads 'and includes a rhyme entitled "Base-Ball." This is the first known reference to "base-ball" or "baseball" in print, though it actually meant the game rounders, an ancestor of modern baseball.' There is no citation given for the section stating 'though it actually meant the game rounders, an ancestor of modern baseball', and the second chapter of the book Baseball Before We Knew It (David Block, 2005) is essentially a repudiation of this assertion. Should probably be deleted. 2A02:1810:2E09:D300:D4:8793:85B2:B80C (talk) 20:11, 20 October 2022 (UTC)