As a good Rara-Avian, yet not a recovering academic, I think that the proper
spelling for Œcapitlized¹ is (or should be...since this is not the Académie
Française) Œcapitalized¹...and some purists would even say that it should be
Œcapitalised¹...
With full academic respects and much Smiles :)
Montois feeling linguistical...
On 2/19/09 11:26 AM, "JIM DOHERTY" <jimdohertyjr@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Bill,
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> Re your comment below:
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> "Rhodes isn't exactly the kind of hardboiled guy that most of the rara-avians
> prefer, though."
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> He's not Mike Hammer, or even Joe Friday, I grant you. But he's tough,
> competent, and colloquial (which is to say, he talks like a regular guy).
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> I'd be happy to go through a door with him (providing, of course, that I had
> jurisdiction in Texas, and he was a real person).
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> By the way, "Rara-Avian" is a proper noun, and, consequently, should be
> capitlized. As a recovering academic, you should know that.
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> JIM DOHERTY
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