ACTION NEEDED: Capitalization of English names on Wikipedia (1 Viewer)

[Nutcracker]

Really, even in ordinary text? "I was roaring drunk last night and smashed my car into the Sugar Maple on the corner". Well, okay, I guess. . ..

Where's the evidence that Alex gets roaring drunk?? I think this is an unfair slur! :-O

I think we should also always add the scientific name, too. I can't bear Ursus it when people fail to do this.

 

[fugl]

Surely that should read -

"I Was Roaring Drunk Last Nigt and Smashed my Car into The Sugar Maple on The Corner"



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What can I say? To err is Human.

 

[MJB]

What can I say? To err is Human.

...and to forgive is far from divine, according to Evangelicals.
MJB

 

[AlexC]

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No Sugar Maples in Switzerland that I'm aware of. Plenty of Beer, though.

 

[Nutcracker]

No Sugar Maples in Switzerland that I'm aware of.

The Botanical Gardens in Geneva have one or more :t: :-O

 

[dantheman]

The Botanical Gardens in Geneva have one or more

Capital!

 

[AlexC]

Capital!

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[MJB]

Capital!

That's Bern, not Geneva....

Now there is a Bern that has a lot of Sugar Maple, and that's New Bern, North Carolina... :eek!:
MJB

 

[dantheman]

That's Bern, not Geneva....

I know, but two out of three potential meanings isn't bad?!

(Could be three at a stretch if you take my post to be a rallying call to make Geneva the capital of course ... )

 

[Snapdragyn]

Canton capital?

(Quick Wikipedia check later...)

A-ha! Bern is the capital of the Swiss canton of Bern! Triple-pun lives!

(And AlexC, I've also used capitalization for all species since I argued that Giant Panda was the correct form in a paper I wrote in a high school English class.)

 

[Nutcracker]

Now there is a Bern that has a lot of Sugar Maple, and that's New Bern, North Carolina... :eek!:
MJB

Sorry, nope, it doesn't . . . too far southeast for Sugar Maple

 

[MJB]

Sorry, nope, it doesn't . . . too far southeast for Sugar Maple

From A Catalogue of Plants, Native Or Naturalized, in the Vicinity of New Bern ... By Hardy Bryan Croom, 1837....

...and from Plants Database...:t:
MJB

 

[chris butterworth]

Has the distribution of Sugar Maple become the Bern- ing question of the moment? ( He asks, in all innocence o ).

 

[MJB]

Has the distribution of Sugar Maple become the Bern- ing question of the moment? ( He asks, in all innocence o ).

That's a sticky question, Chris...:eek!:
MJB

 

[chris butterworth]

That's a sticky question, Chris...:eek!:
MJB

Sweet. :t:

 

[dantheman]

Presume all hope of changing/maintaining capitalization of bird names has long since departed this thread?

 

[fugl]

Presume all hope of changing/maintaining capitalization of bird names has long since departed this thread?

Only a sap would disagree. . ..

 

[Snapdragyn]

Lofty grammar rules
The capital; then leaves
Drifting o'er the thread.

 

[Nutcracker]

From A Catalogue of Plants, Native Or Naturalized, in the Vicinity of New Bern ... By Hardy Bryan Croom, 1837....

...and from Plants Database...:t:
MJB

Out of date . . . split as Black Maple Acer nigrum (syn. Acer saccharum subsp. nigrum) :t:

The Plants Database map is useless, as it only shows by state - so a few high up in the Appalachians gets it mapped for the whole state