malls

• North Star Mall
• Central Park Mall
• Rolling Oaks Mall
• Wonderland of the Americas (formerly Crossroads Mall)
• Ingram Park Mall
• South Park Mall
• Rivercenter Mall
• Alamo Quarry Market
• The Shops at La Cantera

Marriott Riverwalk

Mexican

citizen from Mexico

Mexican American

No hyphen

midterm

military installations

• Fort Sam Houston (Army post)
• Lackland AFB (base)
• Randolph AFB (base)

minor

Lowercase minor. See degrees.

money

Delete excess numerals when you have a round dollar amount:

• $10
• $10.00

• She won $10.
• She won $10 dollars.

Use figures with million and billion, except in nonspecific references.

The building cost $3.5 million.

BUT I’d like to win a billion dollars.

EXCEPTION: In graphs or charts, you may use decimals and zeros.

months

Capitalize the names of months in all uses.

When a month is used with a specific date, abbreviate only Jan., Feb., Aug., Sept., Oct., Nov. and Dec.

When a phrase lists only a month and year, do not separate the year with commas and do not abbreviate the month. When a phrase refers to a month, day and year, set off the year with commas and abbreviate the month.

See also dates.

He was born Saturday, Aug. 11, 2007, at Methodist Hospital.

• Feb. 1, 1996
• February 1996
• February, 1996
• Feb. 1996

Monuments, Monument Lights

When discussing the two UTSA structures at the entrance to Main Campus from John Peace Boulevard, use a plural construction:

• Monuments
• UTSA Monuments

When referring to the lighting scheme tradition created in 2015, singularize monument:

• Monument Lights
• Lights at the Monument

Also acceptable to differentiate from other monuments:

• Monument Lights at John Peace Boulevard
• Lights at the Monument at John Peace Boulevard

multicultural

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