To: henkster
Just curious why the newspapers in the 1940s always spelled McArthur "M'Arthur".
Was it that difficult to get that lower case "c" in there?
8 posted on
08/24/2015 4:31:20 AM PDT by
SamAdams76
(We gave GOP the majority to take care of business and they let us down. Time for Trump/Cruz)
To: SamAdams76
I think it was to save a little space in the headline. Notice they don’t do it in the body of the story.
9 posted on
08/24/2015 4:34:00 AM PDT by
Homer_J_Simpson
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To: SamAdams76; Homer_J_Simpson
Just curious why the newspapers in the 1940s always spelled McArthur "M'Arthur".Perhaps because his name wasn't McArthur.
It was MacArthur.
When counting headlines, the 'M' was already a two count. the ' ' ' added a half count the 'A' is 1.5. So M'A totals a count of 4. 'MACA' has a count of 6.5. So the headline would have to be completely re-written to fit in the additional space.
If you note, the headlines there are all caps. If they were upper and lower, my guess is that their stylebook would have spelled it out.
12 posted on
08/24/2015 4:55:31 AM PDT by
PAR35
To: SamAdams76
I’m sure there was some sort of editorial shorthand convention that allowed them to save space in a headline.
13 posted on
08/24/2015 4:57:03 AM PDT by
henkster
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