Question about capitalization of job titles
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Question about capitalization of job titles
Action in the novel centers primarily around Woman Detective Sargent Denise Stewart.
The editorial reviewer responded: 'woman' should not be capitalized in this sentence, also 'around woman detective' is not correct grammatically, the sentence should be 'around the woman detective'
Woman Detective Sargent is a job title, not a reference to Denise Stewart being a woman. I can understand confusion on the reviewer's part. Here in the United States, I have not seen job titles for police officers designated by gender. In Ireland, where the novel is set, it appears that they are so designated.
I would like to note that, in the novel, the author showed her title capitalized in the same way I have done above. If you would like to verify this, please refer to the first page of chapter two (in my PDF version that was page 16).
Given this information, was my capitalization of Ms. Stewart's title as Woman Detective Sargent correct? Thank you for considering my question.
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GoodAliceofX wrote:Yeah, that job title also really confused me when I read the book. I even did some Googling on it and apparently it was a thing in Ireland until the early 2000's, or somewhere around there. I really wish we could add notes to the editor, or something like that, so that this kind of thing wouldn't happen.
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Thanks for the reply. Yes, I agree. I think there is a suggestion box-perhaps if enough of us suggest it?BoyLazy wrote:GoodAliceofX wrote:Yeah, that job title also really confused me when I read the book. I even did some Googling on it and apparently it was a thing in Ireland until the early 2000's, or somewhere around there. I really wish we could add notes to the editor, or something like that, so that this kind of thing wouldn't happen.
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