How to Punctuate and Spell a Holiday

Ever get caught up in how to spell or punctuate the name of a holiday? The Chicago Manual of Style lists the following secular and religious holidays, officially designated days, and seasons:

• All Fools’ Day
• Christmas Day
• Earth Day
• Election Day
• Father’s Day
• the Fourth of July, the Fourth
• Good Friday
• Halloween
• Hanukkah
• Holy Week
• Inauguration Day
• Independence Day
• Kwanzaa
• Labor Day
• Lent
• Lincoln’s Birthday
• Martin Luther King Jr. Day
• Memorial Day
• Mother’s Day
• National Poetry Month
• New Year’s Day
• New Year’s Eve
• Passover
• Presidents’ Day
• Ramadan
• Remembrance Day (Canada)
• Rosh Hashanah
• Saint Patrick’s Day
• Thanksgiving Day
• Yom Kippur
• Yuletide

but

• D-day
• a bank holiday

You can find this list in the 17th edition in section 8.89.

Best Wishes,
Rita Ray