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DENNIS B MURPHY's avatar

Well you could write your books in ALL CAPS hahahahahaha

As to marines vs Marines.... As someone who attended Marine Corps Officer Training School (1986) and had a father in the Marine Reserves, I disagree with the former marine on capitalizing 'marines"

You wouldn't capitalize soldiers.

So we would see this- marines are in the Marine Corps

:)

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Daniel Moran's avatar

Thomas Pynchon’s novel Mason & Dixon is written in a imitation of eighteenth-century writing and he uses capitals to match the time. It’s “exotic” as you call it here.

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Chris Myers Asch's avatar

So where did you wind up on the question of whether or not to capitalize Black/black?

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H. W. Brands's avatar

Lower case

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