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In ten-pin bowling, a right-handed bowler is supposed to make the course of the ball curve from the near right-hand gutter so as to strike the headpin (#1) and the pin just behind and to the headpin's right (#3). When a right-handed bowler instead causes the course of the ball to cross over the center-line of the alley and strike the left-hand side of the headpin and, often, the pin just behind and to the left of it (#2), this is called "Brooklyn" which is, mostly, I think, capitalized.
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Common term in the navy: when you moor alongside another ship, bow to stern, you are doing it "chinese." Never seen it written, but presume it's not capitalized.
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China/china is a valid example. good thinking.
but chinese, or danish, or viennaese, or other words with an ese or ishor ian ending are obviously adjectives.. a russian tea room is one that serves tea from a samovor, not a tea pot as they do in an english tea room.. but we don't say russia tea room, or england tea room.
i think meccian, or meccaish would not be a problem for muslims, but i do see their point.. their holy city is used as a synonym in all sorts of non religious ways, and its not capitalized, and we do not use an ending to make teh word into a adjective, the way almost every other use of proper name is.
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Brooklynoh, thanks for that one, Father Steve! when I was a kid, my Mom would take me with her to her bowling league. I have such fond memories of giant paper airplanes made from score sheets, and some of the terms used, such as "Brooklyn". I haven't heard that for a looong time... 
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How about jerusalem artichokes? or crépe de chine?
Also, amperes, volts, roëntgens and a whole host of specialist terms do not capitalise on their eponymous originators.
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roëntgen
I know what it means and that it is the discoverer's name. BUT. How is it *pronounced? Arrrggghhh.
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It does go against my grain not to capitalize a proper noun. I used to try and do it with all screen names here, 'till tsuwm slapped my wrist hard enough to learn me. 
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OK, so it's rent-gen, right? Accent on rent. Sometimes the proununciation guides are more confusing than helpful. Sigh
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wow, did you listen to the audio example? m-w has them for each word. just click on the little speaker icon next to the word.
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