Timeline for In English, are words like 'English,' 'Monday,' and 'January' considered common nouns or proper nouns?
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| Feb 15, 2023 at 21:03 | comment | added | No Name | Regarding anglaise vs. English: this has nothing to do with the "properness" of the words involved. French simply does not capitalize its "proper" adjectives, while English does. And as for German, all nouns are capitalized and all other words are not, regardless of their "proper" status. | |
| S Jun 12, 2016 at 3:39 | history | bounty ended | Vun-Hugh Vaw | ||
| S Jun 12, 2016 at 3:39 | history | notice removed | Vun-Hugh Vaw | ||
| Jun 9, 2016 at 18:55 | answer | added | Stu W | timeline score: 0 | |
| S Jun 7, 2016 at 19:52 | history | suggested | Azor Ahai -him- | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
The latest title edit had an error "January of the year"
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| Jun 7, 2016 at 12:49 | history | edited | Vun-Hugh Vaw | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 7, 2016 at 8:15 | comment | added | Araucaria - Him | @Vun-HughVaw Maybe you could change your title to something a bit simpler that exemplifies instead of describes your question? Your good question deserves more than 75 views over a whole week. | |
| Jun 6, 2016 at 20:26 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/739916436714455041 | ||
| Jun 5, 2016 at 13:41 | history | edited | Vun-Hugh Vaw | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
corrected spelling
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| Jun 5, 2016 at 13:39 | comment | added | Vun-Hugh Vaw | @Josh61 I'm aware of that question. What I ask is broader. | |
| Jun 4, 2016 at 22:05 | answer | added | Azor Ahai -him- | timeline score: 15 | |
| Jun 4, 2016 at 21:34 | comment | added | user66974 | This is common available reference: grammar.yourdictionary.com/capitalization/… - englishplus.com/grammar/00000045.htm | |
| Jun 4, 2016 at 21:29 | comment | added | user66974 | Possibile duplicate: english.stackexchange.com/questions/43595/… | |
| Jun 4, 2016 at 20:35 | comment | added | Dale | @DanBron You should post your comment as a solution. | |
| S Jun 4, 2016 at 13:35 | history | bounty started | Vun-Hugh Vaw | ||
| S Jun 4, 2016 at 13:35 | history | notice added | Vun-Hugh Vaw | Authoritative reference needed | |
| Jun 1, 2016 at 15:20 | comment | added | Dan Bron | @Vun-HughVaw Monday is uniquely the first day of the seven-day week. April is uniquely the fourth month of the year. Charles is uniquely that guy who talks too much about his motorcycle and never returns what he "borrows". How other languages categorize these things is essentially unrelated to how they're categorized in English. In English they are unambiguously proper nouns (names, and therefore capitalized - in English). | |
| Jun 1, 2016 at 15:19 | comment | added | Jascol | I can't add much to this, but maybe this answer to another question you would find interesting: english.stackexchange.com/questions/10522/… | |
| Jun 1, 2016 at 15:15 | comment | added | Vun-Hugh Vaw | "They are proper nouns because they are labels for unique entities". Sure, there can't be two Englishes (there can be a lot of English varieties though). But Aprils and Mondays are still a valid forms. And even though a Frenchman and Englishman may agree that that guy Charles is a "unique" Charles, they still don't agree as to how "unique" "anglais" and "English" might be. I'm asking for what they're linguistically identified as, and that might be counter-intuitive to what we might normally think as "unique". | |
| Jun 1, 2016 at 15:12 | history | edited | Ste | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added 8 characters in body
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| Jun 1, 2016 at 15:04 | comment | added | Dan Bron | They are proper nouns because they are labels for unique entities, i.e. names. Like "the Earth" (the unique planet on which we live) vs the earth (the undistinguished mass of dirt over by the fence in the garden). English does have a lowercase word english, meaning the spin on a pool ball, but the uppercase English refers to the unique language spoken by Brits and Americans and Aussies etc. That French or any other language doesn't capitalize them is rather immaterial to their status in English. The Germans go about capitalizing all sorts of things, for ex, and the French waste vowels. | |
| Jun 1, 2016 at 15:00 | history | asked | Vun-Hugh Vaw | CC BY-SA 3.0 |