Naturally, but those are capitalized no matter where they're placed, so that goes without saying.Hosker said:And don't forget proper nouns and "I". They are exceptions also.Jonluw said:"...in American English a colon may be followed either by a capital letter or by a lower-case letter, depending on usage: where direct speech follows, a capital letter is used.."Hosker said:I just did exactly the same mistake in my very post! Oh, the irony! But it is an easy mistake as in American-English it's optional, so you will see a lot of people over the internet doing it.Jonluw said:Curses. It seems I have made a grammatical mistake. Sort of disappointing to hear, really. I think it looks so much neater with a capital letter.Hosker said:You don't use capital letters after colons.
-wikipedia
It seems that is only the case when the colon is followed by direct speech.
No matter. I shall use lower case letters after colons from now on.
(And acronyms, by the way.)