Our picturesque country of Costa Rica boasts a diversity of natural wonders, from lush rainforests to stunning beaches. This gives rise to the question – why do foreigners seem to take liberties with ...

“Tum, tum, tum dee dum, Baby’s beating on his drum.” That’s a line I repeat at least three times a day at the moment — from Page 6 of the Little Golden Books classic Baby Listens. And usually, charmed ...

Confused about when to use capital letters? Read on to learn about the difference between proper nouns and common nouns, and find out when we use capital letters. In English, we capitalise proper ...

The all-encompassing Internet is being demoted. — -- Internet and Web are enjoying one final day as proper nouns before they're downgraded in written form to the more generic "internet" and "web.

Oh, look! There’s some thing sleeping in the trees! Common nouns are the names of things, that’s people, places or objects, while a proper noun is the name of a particular person, place or thing.

So in another thread, I wanted to start a sentence with the word iPad. However, I couldn't figure out how to do the capitalization without it looking stupid and wrong. So I turn to you, Ars. My heart ...

For decades family arguments have raged furiously over whether words like Quzhou (a city in southern China, 27 points) and Zuma (as in the South African president, 15 points) are eligible. At least to ...

As reported by Robert Quigley over at Geekosystem, a pretty substantial change was reported as coming to a classic language-driven board game: the legalization of proper nouns in Scrabble. Robert was ...

I woke yesterday morning to an e-mail from an editor at a London newspaper asking whether, as the author of a book about the world of competitive Scrabble, I had any thoughts on the news that "the ...