Talk:List of case-sensitive English words

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This article was nominated for deletion on September 30, 2005. The result of the discussion was Keep. An archived record of this discussion can be found here.

I have removed See, Prime, and Boxing, which are all words which only have capitals because of their context, and can be used without capitals. I also removed the exclusion of proper nouns, since every example on the list is a proper noun, or derived from a proper noun. This means that Turkey should be included, so I put it in. JPD 16:23, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Words derived from proper nouns are not necessarily proper nouns. For example, nationality names. They are capitalized just due to rules of English spelling. (For example, in Italian they aren't.) Grammatically, the word "Pole" behaves more like the word "drummer" than like the word "Barbara". As for danish and hamburger I'm not very sure they belong here, they are merely different uses of the same word, much like Masonry and masonry. And I've never seen boxing day written in lowercase, in any contest. (Instead, saying that August and august are have the same origin is little meaning, they are unrelated words whose only thing in common is deriving from the same Latin word, much like govern and cybernetics which derive from the same Greek word, but don't happen to be pronounced or spelled alike.) And we shouldn't allow proper names the list, if we do it will became enormous, including Jack, Bill, Dick and surnames like Smith, Brown, Taylor, White, Martin, Wright, Walker, Green, Hall...--Army1987 16:55, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

It seems that there are a whole bunch of placenames, mostly with food-related uncapitalized senses, that might be included and be a category of its own on the list: Wiener, Frankfurter, Bologna, Neopolitan (not to be confused with Napoleon), French, Mayonnaise, Hollandaise, etc. Separate this subgenre? Or leave it as a flat list? Gary 17:52, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

I think that would work best as a separate list - List of foods named after places perhaps - that should be a see also from here. Thryduulf 16:46, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Interesting ... what about foods named after people or other English-capitalized things (the napoleon, for instance) - I imagine there are others. Gary 17:17, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

I think this page should be moved to Capitonym, since all these words are capitonyms. Yes, the logic is impeccable. 71.102.186.234 04:53, 11 November 2006 (UTC)