Iamsurprisetheyhavnttriedtodoawaywithpunctuationandspacesbetweenwordsaswellyoucanstillunderstandwhatiswrittenprettywellthoughitmightbeapainafteracoupleofhundredpagescarlclifford
On 10/04/2013, at 13:56, "JJ Harrison" <> wrote:
> Just as a matter of interest, there have been massive policy battles over
> this issue on Wikipedia (Example:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style/Archive_127#Cha
> nge_proposal_with_regard_to_common_names). Basically those editing bird
> related articles want the capitalisation, but nobody else does. I don't
> think the capitalization convention is very common outside ornithology.
> Newspapers or the ABC, for example, usually don't capitalise common names.
>
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> JJ Harrison
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> Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 09:54:48 +1000
> From: Carl Clifford <>
> To: Dave Torr <>
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> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Information for inclusion in Night Parrot
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> I have read several ornithological books lately which use lower case for
> common names. Not surprising really, as many users of the English language
> are so challenged by it, they would not know whether to insert, wear, or eat
> a gerund, let alone when to capitalise a word. My theory is, that it is the
> publishers trying to save on ink costs. Many a little makes a muckle.
>
> Carl Clifford
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