Comments on: Capitalization Rules in English | Quick Guide & Examples https://www.scribbr.com/language-rules/capitalization-rules/ The checkpoint for your thesis Mon, 10 Oct 2022 10:38:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.2 By: Shona McCombes https://www.scribbr.com/language-rules/capitalization-rules/#comment-287288 Tue, 05 Jan 2021 18:13:38 +0000 https://www.scribbr.nl/?p=74153#comment-287288 In reply to Roxanne Fox.

Hi Roxanne,

That’s because French and Japanese are both proper nouns – they refer to a specific language or nationality. Proper nouns should always be capitalized, even when used as part of a category of words that wouldn’t normally take capitalization.

I hope that clears things up!

]]> By: Roxanne Fox https://www.scribbr.com/language-rules/capitalization-rules/#comment-285046 Thu, 31 Dec 2020 19:11:09 +0000 https://www.scribbr.nl/?p=74153#comment-285046 Good day
In this article I noticed that “French” was capitalised, but not the others.

Disciplines and subjects sociology, economics, French, Japanese

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