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Still? Why would anyone write 'internet' with a capital 'i'? Internetisapropernout.net is just wrong: it's not a proper noun; if it were, why would we precede it with an article?

If we capitalized any noun that referred to a specific thing, every word that followed 'the' would need to be capitalized.

The internet over which I'm posting this comment simply happens not to have a name.



Why is the White House preceded with an article? I don't think it's significant.




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