But it wasn’t so simple, and I started finding interesting tidbits.įor our international readers, ZIP codes are an American thing. But thank you for submitting the question as a voicemail so I can use in the podcast!Īs I said, I thought this would be a quick answer: I’d look it up in a couple of style guides and bing-bam-boom, the end. It’s extremely rare that material isn’t on both. Well, first, you should listen to the podcast, but the answer will be on the website as an article too. I don't listen to your podcast, so if you decide to use this, could you please answer it in your column. and my take on that is that would be correct if you are referring to the specific thing - the postal system, that specific system - but if you're talking about 'zip code,' it has become kind of a generic, like kleenex. Some of the people on the committee thought we should capitalize 'ZIP Code'. Recently we were writing a report and something came up. I actually work for the Federal Government, and I have a good enough command of writing and grammar that I am humorously referred to as the Grammar Guru. It all started with this voicemail message. Today, we’re going to start with rules but go heavy on history at the end because what I thought would be an easy question to answer took me down an interesting rabbit hole and finally to an interview.
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