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Five Questions To Test Your Word Knowledge

Names of ships and other named vessels should always be in italic type: RMS _Titanic_, USS _SC-530_, the space shuttle _Discovery_. (Board games and TV stations are styled in roman type, and podcast episode titles are in quotation marks.)

The answer is ships.

Which one of these names takes italic type?

What, exactly, are these candy-coated chocolates in possession of? The world may never know.

The answer is M&M's.

Which one of these is the only one spelled and styled correctly?

The word is used to mean being very proper in manners, morals, or opinion — but it also has been used to indicate wearing or having a bodice or stays tightly laced!

The answer is straitlaced.

What's the correct spelling of this word?

The answer is moneymaking.

Which one of these words is correctly unhyphenated (per _Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary_)?

The correct capitalization is Summer Olympics.

What is the correct capitalization of the following?

That's OK. You're probably still a good person.

You got 1 out of 5 right

It's OK. You're probably super talented at other, cooler things.

You got 2 out of 5 right

Not too bad. Keep studying those style manuals and poring through the dictionary and you'll be a style pro in no time.

You got 3 out of 5 right

So close, you wordsmithery wiz! You'll get 'em next time.

You got 4 out of 5 right

What's up, grammar guru? High fives all around from your local copy editors!

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