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What is a proper noun?

What is a proper noun? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (grammar) A noun denoting a particular person, place, organization, ship, animal, event, or other individual entity
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British spellings must be Americanised even when they occur in a proper noun.
For fear of this, they want to forestall the conversion of certain proper noun trademarks into common count nouns.
Before you run outside disguised as a proper noun, or convert your blog style to baroque Dickensian, let's consider what is at stake.
Here, 'he' is endophoric because it refers forwards to the proper noun Harry and 'her' refers back to the noun boss.
The proper noun is therefore the particular, individual name that we give to a person, an animal or a thing.
Air quotes didn't quite land on that proper noun, but they hovered close by.

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