At 06:02 AM 6/4/03 -0600, Fred Bauder wrote:
Well, I looked at [[Red-winged Blackbird]]. It follows
the usual
convention, capitalization in title but not in text, until you "tidied it
up" and changed the instances in the text to capitalized. The problem is
that red-winged blackbird is not a proper noun. Not sure how many of
these you did and it does seem unfair to ask you go back and try to find
all of these that you changed, but the "fait accompli" seems to be of your
own making.
It may be relevant that I, rather than Jim, wrote that article. I have no
strong
opinion on the capitalization issue, but my impulse, based on how the rest of
English works, is toward lower-case. That is, if I don't stop and think
either way,
I'll write "I saw a red-winged blackbird", no caps.
It's not a proper noun, but it is a species name.
And can everyone *PLEASE* turn the HTML off. I don't care if you want to
read your
email in black-on-yellow, but send it in plain text and let me make my own
choices.
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Vicki Rosenzweig
vr(a)redbird.org
http://www.redbird.org