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  2. Talk:Non-fiction - Wikipedia

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    The hyphenated version is favored in British English, but the non-hyphenated version is also frequently used (The Guardian exclusively uses it, for example, under their guidelines), while the hyphenated version is considered quite outdated in American English, and not used in mainstream publications anymore.

  3. Wikipedia:Manual of Style - Wikipedia

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    Non-English names that have become English-assimilated are treated as English (ayahuasca, okapi). Standardized breeds should generally retain the capitalization used in the breed standards. [m] Examples: German Shepherd, Russian White goat, Berlin Short-faced Tumbler. As with plant cultivars, this applies whether or not the included noun is a ...

  4. Wikipedia talk : Manual of Style/Archive (punctuation)

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    Lots of dictionaries list "realign" and "reelect" as words, and therefore no hyphen should be used. If a word with "re" in front of it is not a standard form but rather a neologism, then use the hyphen ("re-") until the word is common enough to become a standard form. —Lowellian [[]] 21:46, Dec 3, 2004 (UTC) "Standard dictionary" is a tall ...

  5. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Capital letters

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    For example, replace the headline or title "WAR BEGINS TODAY" with "War Begins Today" or, if necessary, "War begins today". [b] Reduce track titles on albums where all or most tracks are listed in all capitals. For which words should be capitalized, see WP:Manual of Style/Titles § Capital letters. Reduce court decisions from all caps. Write Roe v.

  6. Non-fiction - Wikipedia

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    Non-fiction (or nonfiction) is any document or media content that attempts, in good faith, to convey information only about the real world, rather than being grounded in imagination. [1] Non-fiction typically aims to present topics objectively based on historical, scientific, and empirical information. However, some non-fiction ranges into more ...

  7. English compound - Wikipedia

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    Due to the English tendency toward conversion, the two classes are not always easily distinguished. Most English compound nouns that consist of more than two words can be constructed recursively by combining two words at a time. Combining "science" and "fiction", and then combining the resulting compound with "writer", for example, can ...

  8. English nouns - Wikipedia

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    Common nouns may be divided into count nouns and non-count nouns. English nouns typically have both count and non-count senses, though for a given noun one sense typically dominates. For example, apple is usually countable (two apples), but it also has a non-count sense (e.g., this pie is full of apple).

  9. Wikipedia:Proper names and proper nouns - Wikipedia

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    What matters is that the writer is broadcasting a meaning that points to a specific (though not necessarily singular) referent, using a name conventionally treated as proper. The key to the meaning of proper name in philosophy is whether a competent reader (or competent readers in the aggregate) can get the intended specific-referent meaning ...