Friday, January 8, 2010

Criminal Sentence 322: Proper nouns

From a Web site:

"However, with the dawn of the internet, that information is now readily available."

The phrase "the Internet" is usually capitalized.
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4 comments:

  1. BillJune 8, 2011 at 1:51 PM

    I have decided that internet does not need to be capitalized. I do not write, "I answered the Telephone."

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  2. The Sentence SleuthJune 8, 2011 at 2:57 PM

    True, Bill. What are your feelings about "the Web" vs. "the web"?

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  3. BillJuly 26, 2011 at 1:41 PM

    I use web and website. If you go to the trouble of writing "World Wide Web," then I don't object to the capitalization of it.

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  4. The Sentence SleuthJuly 27, 2011 at 1:57 PM

    Bill, I agree that World Wide Web is correct. Web/web and Website/website/Web site/web site are mostly style choices. I recommend just sticking with one way.

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