When using the phrase, "the highest court in the nation," in reference to the U.S. Supreme Court, does AP advise that the word "court" is capitalized? 

What would the rule/guidance be for the use of "revenues" vs. "revenue" when referring to multiple sources of revenue? Would it be treated similarly to data (i.e., revenue vs. revenue streams, data vs. datasets)?
Context: This is for a report on funding for local road projects, which discusses multiple forms of revenue used by different counties.
Example: Table 23 shows county road and bridge revenues by fund for 2022. Figures 18‒21 provide a summary of average revenues for 2020‒22 by fund. Average county road and bridge revenues increased by year and with population from 2020‒22. 

 

Hi Paula,
Is it 5-star hotels or 5-Star hotels at the beginning of a sentence? (Recasting and spelling out isn't optional.)
Thank you.

Good afternoon. Just an edit to change "unites" to "units."
QUESTION from Arlington, Texas, on April 16, 2023

In this usage: The farm produced 5 tons of food on just one of its 5 acres, should the "one" be spelled out as in this example or the numeral 1?

ANSWERNumeral 1, since these are unites of measure and we use numerals for most units of measure.

What is AP's stance on the term "people of the global majority" as an alternative to "people of color"?

This online version shows: hand-picked; however a colleague of mine says that the "new AP" shows: handpicked. Help! Which is the correct/current AP ruling? Thank you.

Would sign off need to be hyphenated, written as one word, or written as two words in the following instance?

"Determine whether formal sign off by users will be obtained to confirm that the data conversion was proper. "

Hi AP. Do you have any rule about how to write out a phrase that references the event and date related to a quote? I have a lawmaker quote in a callout box in a magazine article. Below the quote, I currently have this:

Sen. LaTonya Johnson
State Senate, D-Milwaukee, District 6
Legislative Council Public Hearing for SB439, December 19, 2023

I am just not sure if AP has any rules that would otherwise indicate a different way to reference the hearing and the date of the hearing for when/where the quote originated?

I am looking for an alternative to airmanship. I came across a discussion of writers in the defense field that suggested aviatorship as aviator works as an inclusive alternative to airman.

Hi. Is it correct to always capitalize a title before a name in a headline like “Canada’s new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is sworn in”? Assume the adjective “new” doesn’t change the need for capitalization. Was trying to avoid commas in such a headline. 

Can I ask for clarification on partial quotes? If a partial quote is – despite being an excerpt – a complete grammatical sentence, does it routinely begin with a capital?

The implication from the quotes within quotes example is that it doesn't:
She said, "I quote from his letter, 'I agree with Kipling that "the female of the species is more deadly than the male," but the phenomenon is not an unchangeable law of nature,' a remark he did not explain."

The embedded comment on feminine lethality could stand perfectly well as a sentence in its own right, but it is not given a capital. Why not?

Capitalization/numeral question: stage 4 cancer, Stage 4 cancer, stage/Stage four cancer? (Per guidance for sequential designations, I'm going with Stage 4 at the moment.) 

What is the AP rule to write the title of a press release related to professional engineers?  Should it be "John Taylor PE Promoted to New Business Division" or  "John Taylor, PE, Promoted to New Business Division"? 

I wanted to revisit the "re-" entry. I saw in the Q&A that there was updated guidance where it would be reelection, reelected and the like. Is this still the case or was there another update? I have seen it both ways within our organization and wanted to get a final determination. And are there exceptions to the re- guidance specific to reelected or reelection 
Thank You!

Can you start a sentence with the numeral with the word million such as...
“$44 million to treat an operation...
or do you write it out..."Forty-four million dollars to treat an operation...

Greetings!  Is there a compilation of 2024 updates to AP Style available? Thanks so very much!

Is it "destress" or "de-stress"?

How would you talk about the data mentioned in this sentence? "We adjusted the original adult definition of complexity from adults with > 4 out of 10 specified health conditions to adults with >4 out of 8 conditions."

Would you keep the symbols? 

Now that we are essentially in an "endemic" phase rather than "pandemic," how should we refer to the COVID-19 pandemic? I've seen some people say "during COVID-19" but that sounds wrong to me.

First, "invite" replaced "invitation." Then, "busted" usurped "broken." This week, I've already seen "woah" instead of "whoa" in respectable publications. Help me, Paula Froke, you're my only hope.

Hi. Does AP refer to the islands as the Falklands or the Malvinas?

Thanks as always,
Richard

How would show an organization name that start with 50th when all other orgs start with letters?

Are fatalities a "unit of measure?" Would you say "there were 4 fatalities" or spell out "four fatalities"

Would "risk averse" be hyphenated in this usage, or should it be left as is?

"who are often risk averse"

Hi. Does AP have an opinion on "vary widely" vs. "vary wildly?"

Thanks, 
Richard