Rolls, Music, Time

[dancer]

The AP Stylebook has Rolls-Royce hyphenated.

Webster's New World College Dictionary - Fourth Edition - has it with no hyphen, and then, has it with a hyphen in the actual definition as a trademark for a luxury automobile.

I went to Google and saw that, even in articles, it was used both ways. A Rolls-Royce car was still written with a hyphen without using it as an adjective.

Should I go with the hyphen?

Thanks for your help.

[dancer]

I had the following three questions in General Chat and received no response, so I am repeating it in the Main Forum:

1) Is it Rolls-Royce or Rolls Royce? AP Stylebook says hyphenate. Dictionary has no hyphen, and then includes it in the definition as a trademark for a luxury car. In articles, I have seen it both ways. What's the answer in a novel?

2) AP Stylebook had orchestral works with no quotes. AP Book of Punctuation has it in quotes. For a novel, if it's pop music, i.e. Frank Sinatra's "Witchcraft," is it in quotes or italics? What about orchestral works?

3) In a novel, is time written from one to nine, i.e. nine p.m? If it is 1:30 p.m., 9:30 p.m. or 10 o'clock, is it in numbers?

Thank you for your help with the above.

[Maeve]

1) Is it Rolls-Royce or Rolls Royce? AP Stylebook says hyphenate. Dictionary has no hyphen, and then includes it in the definition as a trademark for a luxury car. In articles, I have seen it both ways. What's the answer in a novel?

2) AP Stylebook had orchestral works with no quotes. AP Book of Punctuation has it in quotes. For a novel, if it's pop music, i.e. Frank Sinatra's "Witchcraft," is it in quotes or italics? What about orchestral works?

3) In a novel, is time written from one to nine, i.e. nine p.m? If it is 1:30 p.m., 9:30 p.m. or 10 o'clock, is it in numbers?

1) Rolls-Royce Motor Cars -- the company uses the hyphen, so I'd say that trumps any other spelling.

2) Short works, literary or musical, take quotation marks: Sinatra's "Witchcraft," Kilmer's "Trees," Poe's "The Raven," Benet's "The Devil and Daniel Webster."

Long works, literary or musical, are underlined or written in italics: Tennyson's Idylls of the King, Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique.

3) The rule for writing out the numerals 1-10 does not apply to the time:
9 p.m., 8:30 a.m. You'd use words for noon and midnight.

[susabelle]

Well, when in doubt, I defer to how the company wants itself referred to. And in this case, it is Rolls-Royce. I think that's your answer!