Timeline for Initial capitalization of foreign surnames with 'particles' when starting a sentence
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| Jul 3 at 11:05 | history | edited | Edwin Ashworth | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
clarifying question
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| Apr 18 at 7:45 | comment | added | Stuart F | That's the rule for Dutch, but without a specific rule for a particular language/culture, or communication from the person, the general principle should be don't capitalise. | |
| Apr 17 at 23:53 | answer | added | Joe M Kooijman | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 7, 2018 at 23:59 | answer | added | teika kazura | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 14, 2016 at 8:09 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | @RegDwight The rule for foreign surnames. Other usages have mandatory lowercase, demanded by scientific bodies, businesses etc. | |
| Jul 20, 2014 at 12:15 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglish/status/490832390697545728 | ||
| Jul 19, 2014 at 15:55 | vote | accept | Xuor | ||
| Jul 19, 2014 at 7:18 | answer | added | Lacey | timeline score: 19 | |
| Jul 19, 2014 at 3:55 | comment | added | Erik Kowal | One of our regular contributors here is @oerkelens, a native speaker of Dutch (if I am not mistaken). Perhaps he will explain how this issue is handled. | |
| Jul 18, 2014 at 23:57 | comment | added | Xuor | From my edits above in response to comments: The book's capitalization is "de Bernezan," which seems incorrect. Since the author (presumably) knows more about language than I do, I thought I'd seek some kind of definitive reference here to resolve the question. | |
| Jul 18, 2014 at 23:56 | history | edited | Xuor | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added additional info in response to comments
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| Jul 18, 2014 at 23:49 | comment | added | RegDwigнt | In fact the book itself is likely to answer the question. | |
| Jul 18, 2014 at 23:46 | comment | added | Peter Shor | The rule is: capitalize words when they start a sentence. The only exception I know of is Dutch names that start with 't. | |
| Jul 18, 2014 at 23:40 | comment | added | bib | And why is that not your answer? | |
| Jul 18, 2014 at 23:36 | review | First posts | |||
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| Jul 18, 2014 at 23:31 | history | asked | Xuor | CC BY-SA 3.0 |