New Year (Starting with Capital Letters)

[Sweetpumpkin]

Hello,

I decided to stop smoking as of the new year.

I wrote the sentence above on Microsoft Word, and there came a green line under 'new year', indicating it's wrong. I don't know why it is wrong. Do I have to write 'New Year' instead of new year? Why is that?

[Alan]

Hi,

If you are talking about a particular year and I assume you are referring to 2009, it would be preferable to use capital letters - New Year.

Alan
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