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Re: Meanings and associations are different. (m)

by Cleveland Kent Evans (clevelandkentevans)

7/6/2005, 5:44 PM

All I can say is that I've never seen "cassandra" written in lower case even when it is obviously being used with the general meaning. The Random House dictionary still capitalizes it under the second defintion -- just as it capitalizes "Dutch" for both the phrases "go Dutch" and "in Dutch".

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- Chrisell

7/6/2005, 5:51 PM

That would support the argument that the term "a Cassandra" is given in reference to an actual Cassandra, as if it were being used as a general noun it would not be capitalised.

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