The English Language - is it english?

[nq:1]Hi, Possibly an old chestnut, but my search for the answer came to nothing. Should one use english or English, when referring to the English Language? Or is it the Queen's English and english for colonials? Any references would be much appreciated.[/nq]
Am I (not for the first time) missing a joke here? Or are you really a long way from a dictionary? But a mysterious sixth sense tells me

Palindrâ?»me wrote on 17/05/2005 21:11:
[nq:1]Should one use english or English, when referring to the English Language? Or is it the Queen's English and english for colonials?[/nq]
Always "English". Even the verb. yuck

Peter

Mike Lyle wrote on 17/05/2005 22:36:
[nq:1]Mike (colonial).[/nq]
Shouldn't that be "mike" then?

Peter

[nq:1]Hi, Possibly an old chestnut, but my search for the answer came to nothing. Should one use english or English, when referring to the English Language? Or is it the Queen's English and english for colonials? Any references would be much appreciated. Sue[/nq]
In English, the name of every language is capitalized. The names of some dialects may not be capitalized, such as "cockney"/"

"Raymond S. Wise" (Email Removed) averred thusly in
[nq:1]The only time "english" with a small letter is used is when the word is used as a sports term, as in "body english," and even then many people prefer to capitalize it. Raymond S. Wise Minneapolis, Minnesota USA E-mail: mplsray @ yahoo . com[/nq]
Another sports term I've heard here in the U.S. is "putting a little english on the bal

[nq:2]The only time "english" with a small letter is used is when ... Wise Minneapolis, Minnesota USA E-mail: mplsray @ yahoo . com[/nq]
[nq:1]Another sports term I've heard here in the U.S. is "putting a little english on the ball." I don't pretend to know what it means, nor remember just which sport uses the term.[/nq]
Any sport with a ball uses it, it means to put spin and movement on t

On 17 May 2005 15:31:11 -0700, "Raymond S. Wise"
[nq:1]The only time "english" with a small letter is used is when the word is used as a sports term, as in "body english," and even then many people prefer to capitalize it.[/nq]
My spelling checker always asks me to capitalize "english" in "alt.usage.english" and "alt.english.usage".
I steadfastly refuse.

[nq:2]The only time "english" with a small letter is used is when ... english," and even then many people prefer to capitalize it.[/nq]
[nq:1]My spelling checker always asks me to capitalize "english" in "alt.usage.english" and "alt.english.usage". I steadfastly refuse.[/nq]
So do I. But the rule in question has nothing whatsoever to do with the word "English" itself. Instead, it is a ques

[nq:2] My spelling checker always asks me to capitalize "english" in "alt.usage.english" and "alt.english.usage". I steadfastly refuse.[/nq]
[nq:1]So do I. But the rule in question has nothing whatsoever to do with the word "English" itself. Instead, it ... a standard has relatively little effect on the standard way that dates are represented in actual written and spoken English.[/nq]
In o

[nq:1]Should one use english or English, when referring to the English Language? Or is it the Queen's English and english for colonials?[/nq]
This is simply a matter of writing style thus of
convention. The English-language convention is
that adjectives denoting nationality are printed with an upper case initial. (The French language has a different convention, printing noun Angleterre