User:Amgine/SG Details-Y
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-y vs. -ie
[edit]As a general rule, use -ie to create a noun form, use -y to create an adjective form. e.g. he's a beasty boy, but a cute wee beastie.
Yangtze
[edit]Not Yangtse, Yangzi.
Yardie, Yawdie
[edit]Note capitalisation. Term is strongly deprecated as it is nearly invariably misapplied; use only in direct quotes.
yakuza
[edit]Lower case, Japanese criminal organisation. Term may be singular or plural, may refer to the organisation or a member.
Yangon
[edit]Not Rangoon.
Yavlinsky, Grigory
[edit]year
[edit]Use the simple number, e.g. 2011, not "the year 2011". To indicate a range of years, use 2004-11, not 2004/11 nor 2004-2011.
When referring to the academic stage, year 1, year 2, ... year 12.
yes campaign
[edit]Not Yes campaign or "yes" campaign.
"yes" vote, "no" vote
[edit]yesterday
[edit]In general, avoid. See rant at Relative time.
yoghurt
[edit]yours
[edit]No apostrophe.
yuan
[edit]Not renminbi.
Yugoslavia
[edit]No longer exists in a formal sense. There were three different formations of Yugoslavia since 1912, the last of which chose to rename itself Serbia and Montenegro in 2003.
Yule, Yuletide
[edit]Capitalise.
yuppie
[edit]Lowercase in both noun and adjective form.