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. |