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OP Please, only tight-laced editorial types respond (as if):
What is the hard and fast--if often broken and ignored--rule about titles in the address of a business letter, specifically the title of 'principal'?
Let me show an address in a business letter:
Mr. John Doe, principal
Wavering Heights High School
Rack-Driven Slip, VA 23838
Dear Mr. Doe:
...and so on.
OK. What is the most tightly-laced rule you know about the title of principal there? Is the hard/fast rule that principal should or should NOT be capitalized. I think most people nowadays always capitalize such titles, but I have this little itch of an instinct that tells me I wasn't taught to capitalize a title in such a case, oh, way back in about 1967. I sure would like to know the rule.
Many thanks,
WW
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