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When you have a sentence that says "...X-number of miles east of said place, do you capitalize the word east (or West, North or South)?
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I wouldn't. When you're talking about a geographical location like the name of a city or town, or a region of the world or a country, yeah, but not just raw like that.
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According to the stylebook of the US Government Printing Office:
3.21. A descriptive term used to denote a definite region, locality, or geographic feature is a proper name and is therefore capitalized; also for temporary distinction a coined name of a region is capitalized.
3.22. A descriptive term used to denote mere direction or position is not a proper name and is therefore not capitalized.
and there you are.
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Wow! Ya mean a stylebook agrees with me? Mark this on y'all's calendar folks.
Well, then, they *are talking about descriptive terms.
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Faldage ~
Do you mean that the federal government DOESN'T consult you before it prescribes style?
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Are you saying I'm the onliest one they don't consult?
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One wonders what Flounder must think of this dialogue which has run away with Flounder's thread.
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Ah, but the Great Faldo has style to spare. If'n they's not consultin' him, then they's missin' out ...
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... which has run away with Flounder's thread.
Like a fish on a bicycle.
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Waal, up in the Zild we have an expression "to flounder around". It means "to blindly move off in any number of convenient but unpremeditated directions at once when you have absolutely no idea of what the hell you're doing".
We don't capitalise "flounder", but.
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