But when the noun’s singular form ends in S, that’s when pretty much anyone can get into trouble. Singulars that end in Z and X throw ... has separate rules for proper names and generic ...

Common nouns are the names of things, that’s people, places or objects, while a proper noun is the name of a particular person, place or thing. Proper nouns always begin with a capital letter ...

As reported by Robert Quigley over at Geekosystem, a pretty substantial change was reported as coming to a classic language-driven board game: the legalization of proper nouns in Scrabble.

Until now a few proper nouns had been allowed which were determined by a word list based on the Collins dictionary. In Scrabble, players try to gain the highest points by making words with individual ...

Capitalize proper nouns and proper names: John, Mary, Nelson, Facebook. Capitalize common nouns such as party, river and street when part of a proper name: Democratic Party, Ohio River ...

There’s some thing sleeping in the trees! Common nouns are the names of things, that’s people, places or objects, while a proper noun is the name of a particular person, place or thing.