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Grammar pedants - help please.

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swittle Jul 2023 5:39pm, 13 Jul 2023 98,515 posts	Quote Pin swittle Paying lip service to classical conditioning?
Cerrertonia Aug 2023 3:02pm, 1 Aug 2023 19,354 posts	Quote Pin Cerrertonia Maybe they’re going for an older English? For example, the US constitution uses uppercase for nouns as was the practice then. Gulliver's Travels does this, too. Shakespeare, too, in a fairly inconsistent way, to the point where scholarly papers have been published analysing how his pattern of capitalisation changed during his lifetime and the changes in capital latter usage between copies of the same play.
JCB Aug 2023 3:10pm, 1 Aug 2023 4,406 posts	Quote Pin JCB Very interesting. I guess it just goes to show that language evolves. Except in my case it’s going in the reverse direction. 😀
RichHL Aug 2023 5:08pm, 1 Aug 2023 22,010 posts	Quote Pin RichHL Seems a bit Trumpy these days.
JCB Aug 2023 9:28am, 2 Aug 2023 4,409 posts	Quote Pin JCB “No one does capital letters better than me.”
JCB Aug 2023 9:28am, 2 Aug 2023 4,410 posts	Quote Pin JCB (Sorry, couldn’t resist.)
RichHL Aug 2023 11:39am, 2 Aug 2023 22,023 posts	Quote Pin RichHL “Capital Letters.” “Capitol Insurrection.”
Dvorak Aug 2023 10:28pm, 2 Aug 2023 27,126 posts	Quote Pin Dvorak Capital Letters is a letting agency based in Glasgow. (Pedantically, not the capital, although they have an Edinburgh office.)
Surelynot Aug 2023 10:23am, 3 Aug 2023 2,794 posts	Quote Pin Surelynot Could 'capital' in the above be taken to mean 'excellent' rather than the city or town that is the centre of government?
swittle Aug 2023 10:34am, 3 Aug 2023 99,076 posts	Quote Pin swittle Das Kapital?