✅ The 2025 Spring Festival ✅ The Spring Budget Release ✅ The Annual Spring Gala
And if someone corrects you for writing “spring” with a lowercase s , you can kindly explain the rule—or just point them to this post. What’s your spring writing habit? Do you ever break the rules for style? Let me know in the comments.
✅ I’m taking History 101: Spring in Medieval Literature. ✅ ENGL 220 – The Spring Awakening
✅ This spring, I’ll finally plant the garden. ✅ Spring arrived on March 20 this year. ✅ The Spring Career Fair is next week.
In these cases, “Spring” functions as a proper noun because it names a specific character or force. This rule is not universal. In German, for example, all nouns (common or proper) are capitalized, so der Frühling (spring) is always capitalized. In French, seasons are always lowercase: le printemps . English sits in the middle—generally lowercase, with rare exceptions. Common Confusions That Lead to Capitalization Many people mistakenly capitalize “spring” because they confuse it with: 1. Days, Months, and Holidays Those are proper nouns and are capitalized: Monday, April, Easter. Spring is a season, not a calendar unit.
In standard English, the names of the seasons—spring, summer, autumn/fall, and winter—are considered common nouns, not proper nouns. Therefore, they are unless they appear at the beginning of a sentence or as part of a proper name.
But if you’re just saying “I’m taking a spring literature class,” it remains lowercase. Proper event names often capitalize seasons.
Every year, as the snow melts and flowers begin to bloom, writers face a small but persistent question: Should I capitalize “spring”?
