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Pinkponk Posted 15 years ago
Grammar
German loanwords
Why do certain German loanwords remain to be capitalised in English such as Kaiser, Reich, Nazi?
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They don't, unless they remain as proper nouns. In my Webster's, kaiser is in lower case, just as king is. **** is capitalized because it is the name of a political party, but reich does not appear at all except in the lower case reichsmark .
- They don't, unless they remain as proper nouns.
- In my Webster's, kaiser is in lower case, just as king is.
- **** is capitalized because it is the name of a political party, but reich does not appear at all except in the lower case reichsmark .
- When a particular historical period is mentioned, it would be capitalized, of course, as in the Third Reich , and Kaiser Wilhelm is also capitalized just as King Arthur is.
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They don't, unless they remain as proper nouns.
In my Webster's, kaiser is in lower case, just as king is. **** is capitalized because it is the name of a political party, but reich does not appear at all except in the lower case reichsmark. When a particular historical period is mentioned, it would be capitalized, of course, as in the Third Reich
In my Webster's, kaiser is in lower case, just as king is. **** is capitalized because it is the name of a political party, but reich does not appear at all except in the lower case reichsmark. When a particular historical period is mentioned, it would be capitalized, of course, as in the Third Reich
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