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  2. Capitalization in English - Wikipedia

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    APA Style is a “down” style, meaning that words are lowercase unless there is specific guidance to capitalize them such as words beginning a sentence; proper nouns and trade names; job titles and positions; diseases, disorders, therapies, theories, and related terms; titles of works and headings within works; titles of tests and measures; nouns followed by numerals or letters; names of ...

  3. Capitalization - Wikipedia

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    See the discussion of official common names under common name for an explanation. Common nouns may be capitalized when used as names for the entire class of such things, e.g. what a piece of work is Man. Other Romance languages such as French often capitalize such nouns as l'État (the state) and l'Église (the church) when not referring to ...

  4. Wikipedia:Manual of Style - Wikipedia

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    English vernacular ("common") names are given in lower case in article prose (plains zebra, mountain maple, and southwestern red-tailed hawk) and in sentence case at the start of sentences and in other places where the first letter of the first word is capitalized.

  5. Wikipedia talk : Naming conventions (capitalization)/Archive 2

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    Duck is a common noun but Mallard is a proper noun for the same reason. In context it becomes a common name when used in a sentence if you are talking about the duck, and a proper noun if you are talking about the name of the species. F-150 always stays a proper noun. City is a common noun but Chicago is a proper noun.

  6. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Capital letters

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    Wikipedia avoids unnecessary capitalization.In English, capitalization is primarily needed for proper names, acronyms, and for the first letter of a sentence. [a] Wikipedia relies on sources to determine what is conventionally capitalized; only words and phrases that are consistently capitalized in a substantial majority of independent, reliable sources are capitalized in Wikipedia.

  7. Trump has an unusual habit of capitalizing random words in ...

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    The president has been criticized for his unconventional way of capitalizing words that aren't proper nouns, including "border," "military," and "country."

  8. Wikipedia talk : Manual of Style/Capital letters/Archive 4

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    This is quite an isolated case. If a name is composed of a common noun and a proper noun, and the name has not been established as an actual name (i.e.: it really is isolated to the context), would the common noun part of the name be capitalized, or would rules for capitalization still apply, forbidding capitals on the common noun?

  9. Vomiting in dogs is very common, and it can be a sign of lots of things, from mild to serious. Some dogs will vomit once and then seem fine afterward, while others will vomit regularly. Some dogs ...