A

A.D.

Means “in the year of our Lord” and comes before date: A.D. 1900; B.C. comes after the date: 1900 B.C.

a.m.; p.m.; noon; midnight

You don’t need to put 12:00 with these; it’s redundant.

abbreviations

When abbreviating, “Chicago now recommends omitting (periods) unless they are required for tradition or consistency” (15th Chicago 15.21). The BYU style is to delete all periods unless they’re needed for clarity, which would be an exception.

academic degrees

When academic degrees are referred to in general terms, they are not capitalized (see 15th Chicago 8.32).

associate degree, associate’s degree
baccalaureate, baccalaureate degree, bachelor’s degree
doctoral degree, doctorate, doctor’s degree
juris doctor
master of science
master’s degree
master of education degree
PhD degree

Academic Information Management (AIM)

Academic Standards Committee

Academy, Brigham Young; the Academy; Academy building; Academy buildings

addresses

Student Academic and Advisement Services
Brigham Young University
A-153 ASB
Provo UT 84602

Admissions Office
J. Reuben Clark Law School
Brigham Young University
340 JRCB
Provo UT 84602

Note: PO BOX—or PO Box when not on an envelope (no periods)

Admission and Scholarship Application, BYU; admission application; admission process

admissions advisors

Advanced Placement Program; Advanced Placement teachers

advisor; adviser (Church Style Guide)

ages

three years old; three-year-old child; a three-year-old (AP always uses numerals for ages. The BYU style is to spell out the ages one through nine.)

AIM (Academic Information Management); AIM System

Aims of a BYU Education, The

Capitalize but don’t italicize or enclose in quotation marks the full title or its abbreviated title, Aims; the third aim of a BYU Education

Alcuin fellow

All rights reserved.

All-American

all-state (generic use); All-State Academic Tournament (capped in official names)

Alumni Association, BYU; Alumni Association

alumnus/alumni (male singular/male plural); alumna/alumnae (female singular/female plural); alum (used informally for either male or female)

ampersand

Avoid using the symbol & instead of the word and except in copying official titles. However, with publisher’s names in a bibliography, “either and or & may be used . . . , regardless of how it is rendered on the title page,” provided consistency is observed (15th Chicago 17.106).

and

Insert a comma before and in a series (see commas).

Annual University Conference, BYU 2009; annual university conference

apostle Paul; Apostle Paul (Church Style Guide)

apostrophes

• plurals: So far as can be done without confusion, “Words or hyphenated phrases that are not nouns but are used as nouns form the plural by adding s or es. . . . Capital letters used as words, abbreviations that contain no interior periods, and numerals used as nouns form the plural by adding s,” e.g., ifs and buts; dos and don’ts; the three Rs; all SOSs; the early 1920s; in twos and threes; CODs and IOUs (see 15th Chicago 7.14–16). In some proverbial expressions the plural is formed by adding an apostrophe and s, e.g., Mind your p’s and q’s. Dot your i’s and cross your t’s.


• possessives: For singular proper nouns ending in s, use only an apostrophe: Elder Oaks’ talk (AP). For common nouns ending in s, add both the apostrophe and the s: the witness’s story.

applications

Application for Admission to Graduate Studies
Application for Admission to the J. Reuben Clark Law School
Application for Graduation
Application, LDS Missionary Enrollment and Scholarship Deferment
Application to Resume Graduate Study

archive(s)

Can be either singular or plural, depending on context.

area code punctuation

801-422-1234; also 801.422.1234

Asian studies minor

associate degree; associate’s degree

Athlete Building, Student

Athletic Complex (comprises the Student Athlete Building and the Indoor Practice Facility)

athletic conferences

Western Athletic Conference (WAC); BYU a member 1962–99
Mountain West Conference (MWC); BYU a member 1999–2010
West Coast Conference (WCC); BYU a member 2011– (all sports but football, track and field, swimming, and softball)

audiovisual

awards

Names of awards and prizes are capitalized, but some generic terms used with the names are not (descriptive words and phrases that are not actually part of the award’s name). Examples: Guggenheim Fellowship (but a Guggenheim grant) (see 15th Chicago 8.89). See also scholar and scholarship.

Academy Award

BYU Awards:

Abraham O. Smoot Citizenship Award
Alcuin fellow
Alumni Professorship Award
Alumni Service to Family Award
Ben E. Lewis Management Award
BYU-Sponsored Research Award
Creative Works Award
David O. McKay Fellowship
Distinguished Service Award
Eliza R. Snow Fellowship
Excellence in Teaching Award
Fred A. Schwendiman Performance Award
Honorary Alumni Award
J. Reuben Clark Jr. Fellowship
John A. Widtsoe Fellowship
Karl G. Maeser Distinguished Faculty Lecturer
Karl G. Maeser Excellence in Research and Creative Arts Award
Karl G. Maeser Excellence in Teaching Award
Karl G. Maeser General Education Professorship
Karl G. Maeser Professional Faculty Excellence Award
Phi Kappa Phi Award
President’s Appreciation Award
Sponsored Research Recognition Award
Student Award for Excellence in Teaching
Technology Transfer Award
University Professorship Award
Wesley P. Lloyd Award for Distinction in Graduate Education
Young Scholar Award

Emmy
New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award
Nobel Peace Prize; Nobel Prize; Nobel Prize in medicine; Nobel Prize winner; Nobel Prize–winning (use an en dash, not a hyphen, between Prize and winning in this instance) statesman; Nobel laureate
Pulitzer Prize–winning author (use an en dash, not a hyphen, between Prize and winning in this instance also)
Rhodes Scholarship (but Rhodes scholar)

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B

B.C.

1900 B.C.; A.D. means “in the year of our Lord” and comes before date: A.D. 1900; B.C. comes after the date: 1900 B.C.

baccalaureate; baccalaureate degree; bachelor’s degree

bachelor of general studies degree (BGS)

Ballroom Dance Company, BYU

Band, Cougar Marching (there is also a Pep Band, which plays for basketball games)

baptistry; baptistery

bell tower; carillon tower; Centennial Carillon Tower

block, first or second; fall block; winter block; first-block classes

board of trustees (but BYU Board of Trustees); board (Church and BYU); trustee

Bookstore, the; BYU Bookstore

brackets

Brackets and parentheses, italicizing: If enclosing all italic material—or italic material next to the brackets or parentheses—the brackets or parentheses should also be italic. If only one end of the enclosed material is italic, both brackets or parentheses should be regular—i.e., roman—type (by the way, the name of this type style is not capped).

Brackets, not parentheses, are used to enclose editorial interpolations.

Brigham Young Academy; the Academy; Academy building; Academy buildings

Brigham Young University

Brigham Young University: university, not University, when used by itself.

Brigham Young University or BYU must be in addresses.

BYU or Brigham Young University must appear on front or back cover of all publications.

Brigham Young University–Hawaii and Brigham Young University–Idaho; BYU–Hawaii and BYU–Idaho preferred over BYU–H and BYU–I (use en dash); but just BYU when referring to the Provo campus.

Regarding BYU’s relationship to the Church: “BYU is affiliated with the Church” is preferred over “BYU is sponsored by the Church.”

buildings (BYU campus)

For building names and abbreviations, see the BYU Map and Building List under Resources on the menu bar.

BYU Broadcasting channels

BYU Television; BYUTV (primarily features BYU- or Church-related content; available via satellite/cable and online)

BYU Television International (similar content to BYUTV, with English, Spanish, and Portuguese versions; available via satellite/cable and the internet)

KBYU-TV; currently branded as KBYU Eleven (local PBS affiliate, also featuring some BYU- and Church-related content; not available via the internet)

KBYU-FM; currently branded as Classical 89 (local radio programming, featuring classical music and some BYU- and Church-related content; available via the internet)

BYU Radio (BYU- and Church-related content; available via satellite/cable and the internet)

Create TV (do-it-yourself and how-to programming from public television; available only over the air and on selected cable systems)

BYU Cheer Squad, the; the cheer squad; the Cougar cheer squad

BYU not B.Y.U., B. Y. U., or the BYU (except in “The College Song”)

BYU Spring/Summer Visiting Student Program; BYU Visiting Student Program

BYU Student Health Plan; student health plan; student insurance plan

BYU–Hawaii and BYU–Idaho; BYU–H; BYU–I

Use en dash; but just BYU when referring to the Provo campus.

BYU-TV; KBYU-TV; KBYU-FM

BYUSA (BYU Student Service Association)

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C

ca. (circa, about approximately)

campus places and spaces

• Brigham Square (plaza northwest of the Wilkinson Student Center)


• BYU Conference Center (south of the Caroline Harman Continuing Education Building; the two buildings share the same lobby but not the same name)


• Garden Court (skylighted room north of the WSC Ballroom)


• Harman Continuing Education Building, Caroline (on University Parkway just west of 900 East; its east side has mirrored windows that reflect the mountains; it shares a lobby with the BYU Conference Center but not its name)


• Joseph Smith Atrium (open area in the center of the Joseph Smith Building)


• Kimball Quad (area between the Kimball Tower, the Eyring Science Center, and the Joseph Smith and McKay buildings)


• Lee Lane (east–west walkway between the Law School and the Lee Library)


• Lee Quad (area between the Lee Library and the Knight, Smoot, and Harris Fine Arts buildings)


• Maeser Quad (grassy area between the Maeser, Brimhall, Joseph Smith, and Grant buildings)


• Marigold Mall (north–south walkway between the Fletcher, Clyde, Widtsoe, Martin, and Clark buildings)


• Native Garden (five native plant theme gardens on the hill south of the Joseph Smith Building)


• North Hillside (area below the Centennial Carillon Tower featuring the waterfall)


• Richards Quad (area between the Richards Building, the stairs to campus, the George Albert Smith Fieldhouse, and the Student Athlete Building)


• Sculpture Garden (area surrounding the Museum of Art)


• Smoot Mall (area north of the Smoot Building featuring the fountain and flowers)


• Terraced Garden (13 theme gardens on the hill above the Cluff Building greenhouses, designed and maintained by students)


• Wilkinson Way (north–south walkway west of the Bookstore and east of the Lee Library, formerly known as the Checkerboard Quad)


• WSC Terrace (large dining area north of the Cougareat)

campuswide; university-wide

Words ending in wide are “normally closed, but hyphenated after proper nouns, after most words of three or more syllables, or simply to avoid a cumbersome appearance. Hyphenated compounds retain the hyphen both before and after a noun.” (15th Chicago 7.90, part 2, p. 306)

capital campaign

capitalization

• Titles of works (headline style): Capitalize the first and last words and all nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and some conjunctions (if, because, that, etc.). Lowercase articles (a, an, the), coordinating conjunctions (and, but, for, or, nor), and the words to and as in any grammatical function, for simplicity’s sake (see 15th Chicago 8.167). Prepositions in titles: Cap when five or more letters (If you follow AP style, cap when four or more letters.)


• Hyphenated words in titles: Chicago allows either capitalizing the second element or lowercasing the second element.


• Brand names like eBay and iPod should not be capitalized when beginning a sentence, though a rewording to avoid awkwardness may be desired. (See Chicago [16th ed.] 8.153.)


• Lowercase words like chapter and part in text (see 15th Chicago 8.189–190)


• Lowercase the names of majors except for those that are already proper nouns, e.g., English, European studies,


• Lowercase university when used alone.


• Lowercase semesters and terms, i.e., fall semester, spring term.


• plurals of capitalized terms:


• the Provo and Jordan Rivers; Mounts Timpanogos and Rainier; the Joseph F. Smith and James E. Talmage Buildings; World Wars I and II (See Chicago [16th ed] 8.52, 55, 112)


• words derived from proper names: If the dictionary doesn’t give you the answer, you can follow the Chicago Manual of Style’s rationale: “Personal, national, or geographical names, and words derived from such names, are often lowercased when used with a nonliteral meaning.” Examples include brussels sprouts, frankfurter, french dressing, platonic, and the like. (See Chicago [16th ed.] 8.59–60.)

capstone

Carillon Tower, Centennial; carillon tower; bell tower

catalog; catalogue

CD (compact disc; a financial certificate of deposit)

CD-ROM (compact-disc-read-only memory)

center

Lowercase the word center when it appears by itself (see 15th Chicago 8.73 and 8.75).

chaplain, university

chapter

In text the word chapter is lowercased and spelled out. Chapter titles are set in roman type and enclosed in quotation marks.

Cheer Squad, BYU; the cheer squad; the Cougar cheer squad

Christmas Day (or Eve); Christmas holidays; Christmas night; Christmastime

Church Educational System (CES)

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The

Use the complete name of the Church in the first reference. For a subsequent reference, the full name or the contractions “the Church of Jesus Christ” or “the Church” are appropriate.

Church service missionary

civil rights legislation

Class of 1988 reunion; the Class of 1988

Class Schedule, Winter 2009 (not italicized or enclosed in quotation marks); current class schedule

classwork (Webster’s 3d Intl.), but course work

co-compounds (Check Webster’s)

Code, BYU Honor; Honor Code

Not BYU Code of Honor; Church Educational System Honor Code (when applicable to all four institutions: BYU, BYU–H, BYU–I, and LDS Business College)

Cold War

When referring to the actual four and a half decades of tension between the United States and the Soviet Union.

college advisement center(s)

CACs; College of Life Sciences Advisement Center (exception: the David O. McKay School of Education Advisement and Certification Office; Education Advisement and Certification Office )

Colombia (country); Columbia (city, river, university)

Colonia Juárez and Colonia Dublán

commander/editor in chief (Webster’s)

commas

• introductory phrase: “An adverbial or participial phrase at the beginning of a sentence is usually followed by a comma, especially if a slight pause is intended. A . . . very short introductory phrase does not require a comma except to avoid misreading” (see 15th Chicago 6.25). No comma following an introductory phrase of fewer than five words unless needed for clarity.


• commas in a series: Although AP doesn’t put one before the and, for clarity’s sake it is preferred that this comma be included.


• When a comma is required after a possessive noun that ends with an apostrophe, the comma follows the apostrophe (See 15th Chicago 6.8.)

commencement

Official name: 132nd Spring Commencement Exercises; April or spring commencement exercises, August or summer commencement, BYU Commencement, university commencement, December graduation

committees

Cap titles of one-of-a-kind committees; lowercase informal ones, e.g., “Her courses must be preapproved by her graduate committee.”

Academic Standards Committee
Clinical Psychology Committee
Undergraduate Scholarship Committee

Commons at the Cannon Center, The; The Commons

compound words

• Check the dictionary to see if a word is hyphenated or not. If the word isn’t there, don’t hyphenate it unless the hyphen is needed to prevent misleading the reader.


• Recommendation: Check the spelling in Webster’s 11th. (Many compound words are shown in list form, as with co-compounds on p. 236. See also 15th Chicago 7.82–7.90.)

Confidential Report, Honor Code Commitment and

Constitution, the U.S.; the Constitution (only when U.S.)

Continuing Student Ecclesiastical Endorsement (don’t add word form); Continuing Student Ecclesiastical Endorsement interview

Continuing Student Enrollment and Scholarship Deferment Application

convocations; convocation exercises

Cougar fan; Cougar Club; played the Cougars

Cougar Fight Song

This is the song that begins with “Rise and shout! The Cougars are out!”

Cougar Stadium is now LaVell Edwards Stadium: Home of the BYU Cougars.

Cougareat Food Court

course numbers and their titles in text

Cap and spell out any abbreviations and set off with commas, but don’t italicize unless no course number is given: “Philosophy 105, Reasoning and Writing, was the course I took.” (Exception: Catalogs and class schedules, etc., that are filled with information about courses; common sense dictates the use of abbreviations here.)

course work, but classwork (Webster’s 3d Intl.)

courseware

Creation, the

cross-country skiing (Webster’s).

Exception: We spell cross country without the hyphen when referring to the track and field event, even when used as an adjective, because nationwide it is spelled this way by those involved with the sport.

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D

Daily Universe, the

Dance Department

Ballet Division
Ballroom Dance Division
Modern Dance Division
World Dance Division (was Folk Dance Division)
Dancers’ Company, The

dashes

• em dash (see also 15th Chicago 6.80–6.96)


• en dash (half the length of an em dash and longer than a hyphen) is used to “connect continuing, or inclusive, numbers—dates, time, or reference numbers” (see 14th Chicago 5.115). In a sentence, however: from 1968 to 1972 (never from 1968–72) (15th Chicago 6.83). An en dash can link “a city name to the name of a university that has more than one campus” (BYU–Idaho) (see 15th Chicago 6.83–86).

database (Webster’s 11th)

de Jong Concert Hall

dean’s list, the; National Dean’s List

dean’s office

Debate Theatre, Merrill

deferment forms

Continuing Student Enrollment and Scholarship Deferment Application (for currently enrolled students)
LDS Mission Deferment (for missionaries)

degrees, academic

When academic degrees are referred to in general terms, they are not capitalized (see 15th Chicago 8.32).

associate degree, associate’s degree
baccalaureate, baccalaureate degree, bachelor’s degree
doctoral degree, doctorate, doctor’s degree
juris doctor
master of science
master’s degree
master of education degree
PhD degree

department

Department of Exercise Sciences; Exercise Sciences Department; Sociology and Psychology Departments; the department

departmental review board

Derrick Planetarium; and more commonly, BYU Planetarium, Royden G. Derrick Planetarium

devotionals; University Devotional Assembly; BYU devotional; devotional assemblies (but not forum assemblies—it’s redundant)

Directory, BYU Telephone

disabilities: Students with disabilities are served by the University Accessibility Center.

disc or disk: compact disc (CD); digital videodisc (DVD); laserdisc; videodisc

Discontinuance Office

do’s and don’ts; ins and outs

doctorate (noun); doctoral or doctor’s (adj.) degree

Dress and Grooming Standards, BYU (or CES)

Also capitalize when used in tandem with the Honor Code (Put a the before both Honor Code and Dress and Grooming Standards so they appear as the separate entities they are, i.e., the Honor Code and the Dress and Grooming Standards; lowercase when used in general terms.)

DVD, digital videodisc

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E

e-terms

e-business (exception: BYU’s Rollins Center for eBusiness, e.g., “The Marriott School hosts a top-ranked e-business research facility called the Rollins Center for eBusiness.”); E-business (beginning word in a line)

e-commerce (in text); E-commerce (beginning word in a line)

email or e-mail; Email or E-mail (beginning word in a line)

email addresses: Usually no caps are necessary, though Unix machines are case sensitive. To avoid confusion, an address that contains a hyphen should never be broken at the hyphen; nor should a hyphen be added to break an email address or URL.

e-merchants

e-recruiting (Career Placement Services)

e.g.

exempli gratia (for example)—not to be confused with i.e.; term is preceded and followed by commas

early-morning seminary

Earth Science Museum

ecclesiastical endorsement

Continuing Student Ecclesiastical Endorsement (don’t add word Form); Continuing Student Ecclesiastical Endorsement interview

editor/commander in chief (Webster’s)

Electronic Handbook of University Organization, Policies, and Procedures; BYU Electronic Handbook; electronic handbook

emeritus, professor; professor emeritus of art; General Authority Emeritus

Encore (Performing Arts Management newsletter)

Engineering and Technology, Ira A. Fulton College of

Enter to Learn; Go Forth to Serve

If you choose to capitalize the initial letters, do not enclose in quotation marks (Enter to Learn; Go Forth to Serve). If you choose to capitalize only the first word of the motto/slogan and leave the rest of the words lowercased, then enclose in quotation marks (“Enter to learn; go forth to serve”). (See also 15th Chicago 6:52–6.54, 8:209–10.)

et al.

et alii or et alia (and others)—normally used of persons; no period after et

etc.

et cetera (and so forth)

Ethernet (Wired Style: Principles of English Usage in the Digital Age)

Evening Classes; Evening Classes office

exams

American Government or Comparative Government Advanced Placement Exam
Comprehensive English Examination
Senior Proficiency Examination
Sophomore Examination

Expo 89 (Logos such as this one used for a world’s fair do not include an apostrophe before the year.)

ext., Ext.

ext. in text; Ext. on forms; whole telephone number, (801) 422-____, usually preferred in text

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F

FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid)

Family, Home, and Social Sciences, College of

Family: A Proclamation to the World,” “The; the proclamation on the family; family proclamation

fax (Webster’s)

fellow, fellowship: a fellow of the Royal Academy; Fulbright fellow; Fulbright Fellowship; fellowship

fellowman (Church Style Guide), fellow man (Webster’s 11th)

Fieldhouse, Smith

first come, first served

first-block classes

first-priority deadline

forms

Capitalize Form when it’s in the title across the top of the page; otherwise lowercase it or delete it from the title being discussed. Following are some of the forms used at BYU:

Change of Major Form
Form 8c (Graduation Application)
Form I-20
University Honors Graduation Commitment Form

forums (not forum assemblies)

Founders Day

French bread, french fry (often capped), French horn (all Webster’s)

Freshman Seminar (School of Music)

Frisbee (Webster’s 11th); Frisbee, Ultimate (or Ultimate)

full-time; part-time (adj. and adv.)

fund-raiser, fund-raising (noun and adj.) (Webster’s)

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G

Gallery, Secured (F-301 HFAC)

Games Center

Garden Court

Garden Tomb

Gates Opera Workshop Music Theatre, B. Cecil

GE course list

General Authority

General Catalog, BYU: now the BYU Undergraduate Catalog (published online)

Title is not italicized or enclosed in quotation marks; it is lowercased when referred to as “the undergraduate catalog” and BYU doesn’t precede it.

general education

Lowercase; one of the three components of a baccalaureate degree (general education, religious education, major education); general education and religious education constitute the university core

general studies, bachelor of (BGS)

gentile (adj), Gentile (n)

girls camp

gospel doctrine class; however, Church style capitalizes it as Gospel Doctrine class, but CES lowercases

GPAs

3.5 GPA. Exception for number of digits: 3.50 for scholarship purposes and when together in text with GPA like 3.85

grade point average

graduate coordinator

Graduate Council

Graduate Record (no s) Examination (GRE) (GRE Exam okay, too)

graduate school (when speaking generally)

Graduation Evaluation Office (part of Student Academic and Advisement Services)

grant-in-aid (Webster’s)

great works and arts engagement requirement; great works (when referring to the requirement)

great works requirement packet

Ground Zero (when referring to New York World Trade Center site)

Guide, Honors Program Course

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H

half

one-half (adj. or noun); a half hour (Webster’s), one and a half years, a year and a half, one and one-half; a full half-century; half full, half empty, half price; two 12 1/2-year-olds, a 1 1/2-year-old boy; halftime (n); half-time (adj., adv.); half-million; half our goal of $1,000; half jeering; half joking (see Webster’s 11th and 15th Chicago 7.90, part 2)

Handcart Company, Martin

health care (noun and adj.); however, Intermountain Healthcare

Health Plan, BYU Student; student health plan (or requirement)

Hemisphere, Northern, Southern, Eastern, or Western (15th Chicago 8.)

high councilor (not high councilman)

Hinckley Alumni and Visitors Center, Gordon B.; Hinckley Center (HC)

Hinckley Scholarships (Abrelia Clarissa Seely Hinckley and Edwin Smith Hinckley)

one year, full tuition plus stipend. The most prestigious private scholarships awarded, they go both to women and men BYU juniors and seniors-the Abreelia Clarissa to women and the Edwin Smith to men. The number of awards varies from year to year depending on available funding.

historic(al)

a historic(al), not an historic(al)

home page (Webster’s 11th)

Homecoming Spectacular

Homecoming, BYU; Homecoming; Homecoming week, game, etc.

Honor Code (not Code of Honor); Church Educational System (CES) Honor Code

Honor Code Advisory Council; Honor Code Office; Student Honor Association (no Honor Code Council)

Honor Code Commitment and Confidential Report

honor societies

Golden Key National Honor Society
Phi Kappa Phi
(See also Accreditation and Affiliations section of BYU Undergraduate Catalog.)

honors

Honors Center
honors education
Honors Education Office, General and: now Undergraduate Education Office
Honors Program, BYU
Honors Program Course Guide
honors recommended reading list: now great works list; great works (when referring to list)
honors senior seminar
Honors Student Council
honors students (both BYU and generically)
honors thesis
Honors, University; graduation with University Honors

hyphens, compound words

• Check the dictionary to see if a word is hyphenated or not. Note: If the word isn’t there, don’t hyphenate it unless the hyphen is needed to prevent misleading the reader.


• Recommendation: Photocopy 14th Chicago 6.32–42 and Table 6.1 (p. 219) or 15th Chicago 7.90 for answers to most questions re: compound words. Check the spelling in Webster’s 11th.

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I

i.e.

id est (that is)—not to be confused with e.g.; term is preceded and followed by commas

ibid.

ibidem (in the same place); see 15th Chicago 15.45 for correct usage

in residence, artist/composer/poet (Webster’s)

in-house (adj. or noun)

Incomplete Grade Contract

Independent Study

Delete Office wherever possible, but cap if used with proper name.

Indoor Practice Facility

infinitives

Lowercase to in the middle of headline-style titles (15th Chicago 8.167)

information booth

information desk; ASB Information Desk; WSC Information Desk

Inscape (student literary journal)

Insight (student nonfiction journal)

institute of religion; Ogden Institute of Religion

intermountain

Intermountain West; intermountain region; intermountain area (established area is capped, but directional adjectival use is not) (14th Chicago 7.36).

International and Area Studies, Department of

International Baccalaureate (IB) examinations

International Cinema program

International Folk Dance Ensemble, BYU

International Services

International Study Programs

Study Abroad, International Volunteers, International Internships, and Field Studies are all entities of International Study Programs, which is under the auspices of the David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies.

internet or Internet, the

internships

International Internship (under the auspices of the David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies)

New York internship (Department of Communications)

Intramural Office

intranet

introduction

Lowercased when referring to part of a book; see 15th Chicago 8.189.

ISPART (Institute for the Study and Preservation of Ancient Religious Texts) now renamed Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

italicizing brackets and parentheses

If enclosing all italic material—or italic material next to the brackets or parentheses—the brackets or parentheses should also be italic. If only one end of the enclosed material is italic, the brackets or parentheses should be regular type, i.e., roman. A punctuation mark should be in the same style as the word preceding it, e.g., a boldface word should be followed by a boldface period and an italic word should be followed by an italic comma, etc.

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J

Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies, BYU; Jerusalem Center

Jerusalem Center Office

Jerusalem Program

Joseph Smith Building (BYU campus)

Joseph Smith Memorial Building (in Salt Lake City; former Hotel Utah)

Jr., Sr.

“Commas are no longer required around Jr. and Sr. If commas are used, however, they must appear both before and after the element. Commas never set off II, III, and such when used as part of a name.” (15th Chicago 6.49). “Suffixes such as Jr. are retained [when the name is inverted for] indexing but are placed after the given name and preceded by a comma: King, Martin Luther, Jr.; Stevenson, Adlai E., III” (15th Chicago 18.41).

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K

KBYU-TV; KBYU-FM; BYU-TV

Kennedy Center for International Studies, David M.

President Holland “made a very explicit promise to the BYU Board of Trustees that we would never refer to it as simply ‘the Kennedy Center.’. . . Always use the ‘David M.’ with reference to ‘Kennedy.’” (Pres. Holland to DMK Center, University Relations, and Development personnel in memo dated 7-23-85.)

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L

Law School, BYU; J. Reuben Clark Law School; Law School (when referring to BYU Law School [no the])

leadership meeting, stake

Leading Edge (student science fiction publication)

Learning Center, McKay Teaching and

learning resource centers; library LRC

letters as letters

“Individual letters and combinations of letters of the Latin (English) alphabet are usually italicized: The letter q; a lowercase n; a capital W; ‘The plural is usually formed in English by adding s or es’; ‘He signed the document with an X’ ; ‘I need a word with two e’s and three s’s. Roman type, however is traditionally used in two common expressions: ‘Mind your p’s and q’s!’ and ‘dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s.’” (15th Chicago 7.63); grades: “As, Bs, or Cs were given to all the students.”(15th Chicago 7.64)

libraries

• Harold B. Lee Library; Lee Library; the university library (BYU Library)


• Howard W. Hunter Law Library; Hunter Law Library; law library

Lighting the Way for the 21st Century capital campaign; Lighting the Way campaign (no quotes)

Lighting the Y (no quotes)

lists

• When list is within text, surround with double, not single parentheses: (1) or (a)


• When making a stacked list, place a period afterward: 1., A., or a.

Living Legends

London Program (a Study Abroad program)

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M

macroeconomics (Webster’s)

Madsen Recital Hall

Maeser Awards (See also awards.)

magazines/newsletters

ChEn, published by the Department of Chemical Engineering
Clark Memorandum, published by the J. Reuben Clark Law School
Encore, published by Performing Arts Management
Frontiers, published by the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Learning the Healer’s Art, published by the College of Nursing
Marriott Alumni Magazine, published by the Marriott School of Management
McKay Today Magazine, published by the David O. McKay School of Education
Scholarsheet, The, published by the Hinckley Scholarship Association
Toccare, published by the Department of Physics and Astronomy
Y News, BYU community’s newsletter published by University Communications

Mail Production Center, Print and (PMPC) (Mail Services is part of this organization.)

majors

Lowercase the names of majors except for those that are already proper nouns, e.g., English, European studies

Marching Band, Cougar

Margetts Arena Theatre

Marriott School of Management; Marriott School

Martin Luther King Day holiday

master’s degree (15th Chicago 8.32).

McKay Teaching and Learning Center

mentored learning experience (clarifying hyphen unnecessary)

mentored-student learning (not student-mentored learning)

Merrill Debate Theatre

Millennium, the (the religious event)

Miller Analogies Test

Mission of Brigham Young University, The; The Mission of BYU; the BYU mission statement; mission statement

The official title of the document is The Mission of Brigham Young University—just like The Aims of a BYU Education. Capitalize but don’t italicize or enclose in quotation marks these full titles except when referring to the title of the published booklet: The Mission of Brigham Young University and The Aims of a BYU Education (Provo: BYU, 1996), 12.

moot court room

morningside

Mosaic law; law of Moses

mottoes and slogans

If you choose to capitalize the initial letters, do not use quotation marks (Enter to Learn; Go Forth to Serve). If you choose to capitalize only the first word of the motto/slogan and leave the rest of words lowercased, then use quotation marks (“Enter to learn; go forth to serve”). (See also 15th Chicago 6.52–6.54, 8:209–10.)

Mount of Transfiguration

Mountain West Conference (MWC)

Mountain West Conference (MWC); BYU a member 1999–2011

MountainWest Sports Network; The Mtn.

Referred to in text as The Mtn.; broadcast partner for the Mountain West Conference

MP3 file; MP4 player

Multicultural Student Services

multipurpose area

museums

Earth Science Museum
Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum (never Bean Museum; we promised the donor)
Museum of Art; MOA
Museum of Peoples and Cultures

music dance theatre

MWC championship

MyMAP

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N

names

When in doubt, refer to the BYU Undergraduate Catalog (which departments are invited to check annually for errors), the person’s office, or , if he or she is a “celebrity,” on the internet.

• Commonly misspelled names:

Larry EchoHawk
Kieth Merrill
John A. Widtsoe

• Space between initials: B. H. Roberts (15th Chicago 15.12); AP style, however, would omit spaces


• The following prefer no periods following the initials in their names:

Jack H Goaslind
Daniel K Judd
Brayden G King
Richard L Manning
Hal G Moore
Stephen L Richards
Michael M. O Seipel (no period after the O)
Ronald J Staheli
Dennis L Thomson
J Paul Warnick
Kevin J Worthen

Native American studies minor

Native American; American Indian; Indians

Was preferred when referring to an American Indian; however, in 15th Chicago 8.41: “Many American Indians prefer American Indian to the more current term Native Americans, and in certain historical works Indians may be more appropriate. Canadians often speak of First Peoples.”

Nativity, the

Nelke Experimental Theatre

Net ID

newsletters/magazines

ChEn, published by the Department of Chemical Engineering
Clark Memorandum, published by the J. Reuben Clark Law School
Encore, published by Performing Arts Management
Frontiers, published by the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Learning the Healer’s Art, published by the College of Nursing
Marriott Alumni Magazine, published by the Marriott School of Management
McKay Today Magazine, published by the David O. McKay School of Education
Scholarsheet, The, published by the Hinckley Scholarship Association
Toccare, published by the Department of Physics and Astronomy
Y News, BYU community’s newsletter published by University Communications

Nobel

Nobel Peace Prize; Nobel Prize; Nobel Prize in medicine; Nobel Prize winner, Nobel Prize–winning statesman (use an en dash, not a hyphen, between Prize and winning in this instance); Nobel laureate

non–Latter-day Saint (to be avoided)

north central Utah

numbers

• When using either cardinals (one) or ordinals (first) in ordinary text, spell out numerals one through nine and write Arabic numerals for 10 and above (even if they occur in the same paragraph). Numerals give eye-relieving contrast to all the words in the copy.


• However, in numeral-dense copy such as the catalogs and class schedules, spell out numerals one through ninety-nine, except for credit hours, which are always in numerals—including 1 credit hour.


• age: The above “ordinary text” rule applies, except when newspaper (AP) style is preferred. Then all ages are expressed in numerals (e.g., He is 3 years old). “All 12- to 13-year-olds are eligible.”


• Arabic numerals are usually preferred to Roman numerals (e.g., in course titles, etc., in BYU Undergraduate Catalog, such as Real-Time Computer Systems 1)


• money: $20 (not $20.00) when no cents are involved


• percentages: In scientific and statistical copy use the symbol % for a percentage; in humanistic copy, the word percent. Whether the word or the symbol is used, the quantity is expressed by a numeral (1 percent).


• Quantities consisting of both whole numbers and fractions should be expressed in numerals, e.g., 8 1/2-by-11-inch paper.


• Write no. instead of using # symbol.

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O

off campus; on campus

off campus and on campus after the noun, off-campus and on-campus before the noun, as with many other combinations. Look up compound words individually in the dictionary if you have any doubt.

offices

Office of Information Technology
Office of Research and Creative Activities (ORCA)
Student Employment Office (SEO)
Transfer Evaluation Office
Veterans Support Office

official grade roll

Oliver House

OneStop

online (adj/adv, Webster’s 11th)

Oquirrh Mountains

Orientation, New Student

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P

p.m.; a.m.; noon; midnight

You don’t need to put 12:00 with these; it’s redundant.

Pardoe Drama Theatre

parentheses and brackets (re: italicizing)

If enclosing all italic material—or italic material next to the brackets or parentheses—the brackets or parentheses should also be italic. If only one end of the enclosed material is italic, the brackets or parentheses should be regular type, i.e., roman.

Parents Guide

part

Part A, Part 1, when designating so-labeled sections of applications (but lowercased when referring to part of a book; see 15th Chicago 8.189)

part-time; full-time (adj. and adv.)

PDF; portable document format

PE (not P.E.)

Pell Grant, federal

Pep Band (plays for basketball games; different from Cougar Marching Band)

percentages

In scientific and statistical copy use the symbol % for a percentage; in humanistic copy, the word percent. Whether the word or the symbol is used, the quantity is expressed by a numeral (even 1 percent).

phone numbers

801-422-6767; 801.422.6767; toll-free numbers: 1-800-235-6767; no parentheses around area codes.

Ping-Pong (trademarked name for table tennis); ping-pong (v)

Planetarium, Derrick; and more commonly, BYU Planetarium, Royden G. Derrick Planetarium

plurals

“So far as it can be done without confusion, single or multiple letters, hyphenated coinages, and numbers used as nouns (whether spelled out or in numerals) form the plural by adding s alone” (14th Chicago 6:16). Examples: the three Rs; the early 1920s; thank-you-ma’ams. “To avoid confusion, lowercase letters and abbreviations with two or more interior periods or with both capital and lowercase letters form the plural with an apostrophe and an s” (15th Chicago 7:16). Examples: MA’s and PhD’s; x’s and o’s; SOS’s. Also: dos and don’ts (see also 15th Chicago 7.14).

PO Box (not P.O. Box)

podcast

Point of the Mountain

possessives

• With proper nouns ending in s, add the apostrophe only: Elder Oaks’ talk; with common nouns, add both the apostrophe and the s: the witness’s story. Founders Day, BYU (day for founders); doctor’s orders (orders of the doctor); teachers guide (guide for teachers) 6 hours’ work

Practice Facility, Indoor

Pre-Professional Skills Test (PPST)

predental; premedical; prelaw; pre-engineered (Webster’s); pre-engineering

preinternship conditioning

prepositions in titles

Cap when five or more letters (If you follow AP style, cap when four or more letters.)

president

president of BYU, president of the university, president of the Church (when speaking generally), president of the United States, then president (meaning the president at the time; don’t hyphenate), vice president (AP, p. 196, and Webster’s)

President Monson, President-Elect Jones; general president of the Relief Society

President’s Club

President’s Leadership Council

President’s Leadership Council (PLC) for BYU’s Provo campus; however, Presidents’ Leadership Council–Hawaii (PLC–Hawaii) for BYU–Hawaii because the council includes both the president of BYU–Hawaii (BYU–Hawaii) and the president of the Polynesian Cultural Center (PCC; no the preceding PCC in copy)

Presidential Citation; Presidential Medallion; President’s Annual Appreciation Award

Press, University

The entity once housed in the University Press Building (UPB) was dissolved in 1984. Today the Print and Mail Production Center offers printing, copying, and mail services. For information regarding use of the BYU Press imprint, contact the academic vice president’s office.

Princeton Review, the (don’t italicize; it is an organization, not a publication)

Print and Mail Production Center (PMPC)

Formerly Print Services, University Press, or “the Press.” For information regarding use of the BYU Press imprint, contact the academic vice president’s office.

printout (n); print out (verb + adv)

problem solving (noun); problem-solving attitude (adj)

Proclamation to the World,” “The Family: A; the proclamation on the family; family proclamation

Professional Certificate (for teachers)

program

Check the BYU Undergraduate Catalog for treatment of specific programs.

Prospective Law Student Evaluation

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Q

question-and-answer session

quotations

• double and single quotation marks: Single quotation marks enclose quotations within quotations; double marks, quotations within these; and so on. (14th Chicago 10.26; see also 15th Chicago 6.8.)


• punctuating direct, published quotations: Quote verbatim “every word, every capital letter, and every mark of punctuation exactly as it is in the original.” (Harbrace College Handbook [12th ed.], p. 408.)

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R

Readers Theatre

Registration Notice

Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the: now called the Community of Christ

Replenishment Program, BYU Alumni Association Grant

residence hall (not dorm or dormitory)

residence, artist/composer/poet in (Webster’s)

Residential Living Standards

Capped when used in tandem with the Honor Code and the Dress and Grooming Standards (also, put the before each one so they appear as the separate entities they are, i.e., the Honor Code, the Dress and Grooming Standards, and the Residential Living Standards)

résumé or resumé (not resume)

Rhodes scholar; Rhodes Scholarship

Rise and Shout! (first words of the “Cougar Fight Song”)

room numbers

C-550 HFAC, 332D MCKB; don’t include the word room.

Route Y

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S

Sabbath (day, school), the

Salt Lake City International Airport

Salt Lake City; Salt Lake; North Salt Lake; Great Salt Lake; Great Salt Lake Desert; Great Salt Lake Valley; Salt Lake Valley

salutation in a business letter

typically followed by a colon, e.g., “Dear Mr. Smythe:” An exception might be made when correspondents are on a first-name basis and the more informal comma seems appropriate, e.g., “Dear Robert,”

Scandinavian studies

scholar(s) and scholarship(s)

• Lowercase scholar (Fulbright scholar, Rhodes scholar, J. Reuben Clark scholar, Richards scholar, Hinckley scholar, Sterling scholar, etc.)
  scholar-athlete; student athlete


• Capitalize scholarship (National Merit Scholarship, Hinckley Scholarship, Thomas S. Monson Scholarship*—or Presidential Scholarship*—Dean’s Scholarship, Pell Grant, BYU Alumni Replenishment Grant, etc.)
  Scholarship Committee, Undergraduate

*Note: Recipients of Presidential Scholarships bearing the name of the president of the Church continue to receive these scholarships under the name of the president for which the scholarship was named even if that president has died. For example, for a while there were Howard W. Hunter Scholarships in effect at the same time there were Gordon B. Hinckley Scholarships.

Heritage Scholarship (formerly Trustees Scholarship)
Hinckley Scholarships (Abrelia Clarissa Seely Hinckley and Edwin Smith Hinckley)
Presidential Scholarship (currently Thomas S. Monson Presidential Scholarship)
University Scholarship

scholar-athlete

Scholarships Office

scholastic recognition

summa cum laude, magna cum laude, and cum laude are not italicized because they are well-known terms; nor are they capitalized.

Schools

• School, BYU Law; J. Reuben Clark Law School; the Law School


• School of Education, David O. McKay; McKay School of Education; School of Education


• School of Family Life


• School of Management, Marriott; Marriott School


• School of Music


• School of Social Work


• School of Technology

section 128, Doctrine and Covenants

Secured Gallery (F-301 HFAC)

Semester in Jerusalem; Semester in Nauvoo

semesters and terms

Lowercase semesters and terms, i.e., fall semester, spring term.

Senior Seminar (several departments in BYU Undergraduate Catalog)

sic/sic

(‘so,’ ‘thus,’ ‘in this manner’) May be inserted in brackets following a word misspelled or wrongly used in the original. (Note that sic is a complete word, not an abbreviation, and therefore takes no period; it is customarily set in italics. See also 15th Chicago 11.69.)

Signature Card

slogans and mottoes

If you choose to capitalize the initial letters, do not use quotation marks (Enter to Learn; Go Forth to Serve). If you choose to capitalize only the first word of the motto/slogan and leave the rest of words lowercased, then use quotation marks (“Enter to learn; go forth to serve”). (See also 15th Chicago 6.52–6.54, 8:209–10.)

Smith Fieldhouse

social security (Chicago and AP cap, but Webster’s doesn’t, and we defer to Webster’s); social security number

Social Work, School of

Spirit of the Y

Spring/Summer Visiting Student Program, BYU; BYU Visiting Student Program

Stadium: Home of the BYU Cougars, LaVell Edwards

Stafford Loan (SL)

There is a Subsidized Federal Stafford Loan and an Unsubsidized Federal Stafford Loan.

standards

off-campus living standards; residential living standards; dress and grooming standards (but cap when used in tandem with the Honor Code, i.e., the Honor Code and the Dress and Grooming Standards)

star of Bethlehem, the

step-down lounge (there have been two, one in the CB and the one that was in the SFLC)

Stephen L Richards Building (no period after L; not Richards PE Building)

Sterling scholar runner-up, social science

Student Athlete Building

student athlete; scholar-athlete

student body (n), student-body (adj) (Webster’s 11th)

student Emmy

Student Employment Office (SEO)

Student Health Plan, BYU; student health plan; student insurance plan

Student Life

Student Service Association, BYU (BYUSA)

student-mentored learning should be mentored-student learning

studies

African studies, Asian studies, European studies, Latin American studies, Middle East studies/Arabic (all under auspices of Department of International and Area Studies); Scandinavian studies (under the auspices of Center for Language Studies); Graduate Studies; bachelor of general studies (under the auspices of Independent Study)

Study Abroad Office, Study Abroad Center, Study Abroad Program

Study Abroad Program, the; a study abroad program; administered by Study Abroad

study list

Style Guide, BYU (this style guide); University Style Guide

subscript/superscript

Place outside punctuation marks.

Summer Visiting Student Program, BYU Spring/; BYU Visiting Student Program

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T

Takeout Services (BYU's catering service)

teacher-scholar (not teacher/scholar)

telephone numbers

801-422-6767; 801.422.6767; toll-free numbers: 1-800-235-6767; no parentheses around area codes

Ten Commandments, the

terms and semesters

Lowercase terms and semester, i.e., spring term, fall semester.

TESL Certificate

TESOL; Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

Testing Center

Texas A&M

The Dancers’ Company

The in newspaper and periodical titles

AP says to cap the if that is the way the publisher prefers but lowercase it if the story mentions several newspapers, some of which use the as part of the name and some of which do not. 15th Chicago 8.180 says: “When newspapers and periodicals are mentioned in text, an initial the, even if part of the official title, is lowercased (unless it begins a sentence) and not italicized. Foreign-language titles, however, retain the article in the original language—but only if it is an official part of the title: She reads the Sun-Times every morning. On the ship she read Le Monde.”

the Young Company (not The Young Company)

Theatre Ballet, BYU

theatre(s) and concert halls

• The department is the Department of Theatre and Media Arts and all auditoriums but the Varsity have been spelled re. Now the Varsity’s canopy and marquee shows it re, as well. If speaking generally and the Department of Theatre and Media Arts isn’t a factor, just spell it the Americanized theater.

de Jong Concert Hall
Gates Opera Workshop, B. Cecil
Little Theatre (WSC)
Madsen Recital Hall
Margetts Arena Theatre
Merrill Debate Theatre
Nelke Experimental Theatre
Pardoe Drama Theatre
Varsity Theatre (WSC)

then president

meaning the president at the time; don’t hyphenate

these the latter days

ticket office

Fine Arts Ticket Office (There is also a Fine Arts Center Scheduling Office.)
Marriott Center Ticket Office

time: midnight; noon; a.m.; p.m.

titles

See capitalization

• forms: Capitalize Form when it’s in the title across the top of the page; otherwise lowercase it or delete it from the title bring discussed.



Class Request Form
Needs Analysis Form (ACT)
Registration Confirmation Form


• italicize titles of plays, movies, TV shows, books, artwork (including photographs), exhibits, and the like; put quotation marks around episode titles, though.


• Leave academic publication titles in roman type, e.g., BYU Undergraduate Catalog (and other catalogs), Fall 2008 Class Schedule, GE Guide, University Honors Program Course Guide, University Electronic Handbook.

Transfer Evaluation Office

Travel Study

Tuition Billing Statement

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U

U.S.

Use only as an adjective, spell out as a noun; no periods when used in addresses.

Uinta/Uintah

Uinta Mountains (in Utah); Uintah County (in Utah); Uinta County (in Wyoming)

Ultimate (or Ultimate Frisbee)

undergraduate catalog; BYU 2009–2010 Undergraduate Catalog; BYU Undergraduate Catalog (published online)

Title is not italicized or enclosed in quotation marks; it is lowercased when referred to as “the undergraduate catalog” and BYU doesn’t precede it.

Undergraduate Scholarship Committee

United Way

university

Lowercase university when used by itself.

University Accessibility Center

University Admissions Committee

university chaplain

University Conference, BYU 2009 Annual; annual university conference

university core

Formerly general education (GE); a revised GE program and university core in which GE and religion requirements are combined was implemented in fall 2004.

University Devotional Assembly

University Honors

University Police (not Security)

University Press

The entity once housed in the University Press Building (UPB) was dissolved in 1984. Today the Print and Mail Production Center offers printing, copying, and mail services. For information regarding use of the BYU Press imprint, contact the academic vice president’s office.

University Scholarship

University Singers; BYU Singers; the Singers (as in Encore newsletter)

University Style Guide (this style guide); BYU Style Guide

university-wide; campuswide

Words ending in wide are “normally closed, but hyphenated after proper nouns, after most words of three or more syllables, or simply to avoid a cumbersome appearance. Hyphenated compounds retain the hyphen both before and after a noun.” (15th Chicago 7.90, part 2, p. 306)

URLs and email addresses

When possible, break between elements. As per the recommendations in Chicago 7.42, break the address “after a colon or a double slash; before or after an equals sign or ampersand; or before a single slash, a period, or any other punctuation or symbols. To avoid confusion, an address that contains a hyphen should never be broken at the hyphen; nor should a hyphen be added to break an email address or URL.”

As an example, the web address https://byusa.byu.edu/campus-activities could be broken in any of the following ways:

• https:// byusa.byu.edu/campus-activities (but not https ://byusa.byu.edu/campus-activities)


• https://byusa .byu.edu/campus-activities or https://byusa.byu .edu/campus-activities (but not https://byusa. byu.edu/campus-activities or https://byusa.byu. edu/campus-activities)


• https://byusa.byu.edu /campus-activities (but not https://byusa.byu.edu/ campus-activities)

Utah

Utah in text, but UT in addresses in text

Utah State Developmental Center (American Fork)

Utah State Hospital (Provo)

Includes Mountain Brook Elementary School and East Wood High School

Utahn (not Utahan)

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V

Varsity Theatre

All their printed matter is re. At this time all theaters on campus are spelled re.

Veterans Support Office

vice chair

vice president (AP, p. 257, and Webster’s)

videotape

Vienna Program (a Study Abroad program)

visa, B

visiting professor

Visiting Student Program, BYU Spring/Summer; BYU Visiting Student Program

Visitors’ Centers (Church); Visitors Center (at BYU)

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W

Wasatch Front; Wasatch Mountains; Wasatch Range

Washington Seminar (under auspices of David M. Kennedy Center; Washington Seminar Office); Washington Seminar Office

web, the (but cap in World Wide Web, which is a proper noun)

webcam; webcast; webmaster (Webster’s 11th: “often capitalized”)

website (16th Chicago); Web site (Webster's 11th); web page

West Coast Conference (WCC); BYU a member 2011– (all sports but football, track and field, swimming, and softball

Western Athletic Conference (WAC); BYU a member 1962–99

Western civilization, Western world (15th Chicago 8.50)

Western Hemisphere (15th Chicago 8.50)

Women’s Conference, BYU

Women’s Council of Provo Cultural and Civic Center

(Building on 310 West 500 North.) Women’s Cultural Center; Women’s Civic Center

World Wide Web (www)

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X

X-rated

X-ray (noun, adj.); x-ray (verb, Webster’s 11th: “often capped”)

Xerox (Webster’s defines it as a trademark only); use the word photocopy instead.

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Y

Y Card

Y Day (historically Y Day; has sometimes been called Y Days)

Y Group; Y Group leader

Y News

Y-Be-Fit

Young Company, the

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Z

zip code

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