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To: BykrBayb
When it is the actual title, it is a proper noun, and should be capitalized.

Once again; where is the RULE?

125 posted on 11/07/2014 12:35:45 AM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

A proper noun is the name of a specific person, place or thing. Proper nouns are always capitalized. That is the rule. There is no exception for God or the Bible.

To treat a proper noun as a common noun is a sign of disrespect. I do that with words like muslim, islam, or obama; sometimes even at the beginning of a sentence, just to make it clear the disrespect is intentional.

I’m no expert in grammar. If someone who is wants to pick my posts apart, they could have a field day. Proper nouns are a pretty simple concept though. The rule of capitalizing proper nouns used to be known to all children by the time they finished elementary school. I don’t know what they’re learning these days, but I’m sure proper nouns are still to be capitalized, whether the children know it or not.


134 posted on 11/07/2014 4:15:54 AM PST by BykrBayb (Where there is life, there is hope. - Terri Schiavo ~ Þ)
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