You are right about the abbreviations (there are a few special rules for those), but (at least in Spain), not the full words:
http://buscon.rae.es/dpdI/SrvltConsulta?lema=usted On Feb 22, 2009, at 8:42 PM, Alan Watson wrote: >> However, with the exception of proper names (and not nouns), they are >> only used to start a sentence. In essence, capitals are punctuation, >> nothing else. > > Okay, this is so far off topic but then again, maybe not. > > In the Spanish that I write, capitals are also used for the > pronouns Usted and Ustedes (and their abbreviated forms Ud. and > Uds.). If one were to write usted or ustedes, it would be regarded > as incorrect. (This may be different in the Spanish that Guillermo > writes.) > > Alan > -- > Alan Watson > http://www.alan-watson.org/ > _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
