We are big fans of our slow cooker. It is so old it is almond coloured with cute little mushrooms painted as decor.
A question for you. From the article the text says “Slow-cooker cooking is a rite of fall.” Do we no longer capitalize Spring and Fall to denote seasons? Shouldn’t this be “ a rite of Fall”? Or am I an anachronism....
Our grammar textbooks teach us that we don’t capitalize the seasons.
It seems contrary to logic, but the seasons are not capitalized.
I had Summer jobs at a regional retail chain in college. You could tell what the big Christmas items were going to be because of the massive influx of the “same” item from different vendors. Crock pots from Rival, Sunbeam, etc. Shower heads, curling irons, and toaster ovens bring back memories. (Finding legal room to store luggage was the worst.)
Almond was the alternative color at the time to Harvest Gold or Avocado Green. “Platinum” was the classy synonym for “Almond” used by some vendors.
I was taught to capitalize the seasons, but these days the MS Word spell checker identifies capitalized seasons as spelling errors.
Or should the quotation marks be outside the punctuation?
:^)
At my house it's a "rite of fall," because the last time I used the crock pot, I slipped and fell in the kitchen. On my 3-month-old replacement hip....
I learned something that’s either new, or I’ve forgotten over the eons since I was in school. :)
“Seasons start with a capital letter when they go with another noun or when they personify. Here they function as proper nouns: “Autumn Open House”; “I think Spring is showing her colors”; “Old Man Winter”. However, in the general sense, they do not start with a capital letter: “This summer was very hot.”
This was a vey amateurish arcticle. By an intern perhaps?