[DCRM-L] Church-yard or Church-Yard? And does the hyphen make any difference?

[Deborah J. Leslie]

We follow Chicago Manual of Style on capitalizing hyphenated words. Your speculation is close but not quite on-the-nose. If I didn’t have a headache I’d look up the rule for you.

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From: DCRM-L <dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu> On Behalf Of Noah Sheola
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2023 16:36
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Subject: [DCRM-L] Church-yard or Church-Yard? And does the hyphen make any difference?

Hello all,
When transcribing the imprint "St. Paul's Church-yard" in sentence case, I notice many catalogers convert/retain the lowercase y in yard. Is the idea here that we do not capitalize the latter parts of a hyphenated compound word even when it's part of a proper noun? I'm having trouble identifying the guiding principle here. Thanks,
- Noah

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Noah Sheola
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Senior Special Collections Cataloging Librarian
John J. Burns Library
Boston College

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