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Is “coach†a proper noun in this case?
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I'm not going to play next year if coach makes me ride the pine again this season. (source)
The sentence syntactically suggests "coach" has to be a proper noun, although it is not capitalized. It looks to me "coach" here functions the same way as "Mom" in "I asked Mom where my book was."
Should it be capitalized when used as title before a name? For example:
Have you talked to Coach/coach Anderson?
A discussion on a sports journalism forum on this topic has mixed opinions and seems ultimately inconclusive, so I wonder what the proper writing rules are.
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I'm not going to play next year if coach makes me ride the pine again this season. (source)
The sentence syntactically suggests "coach" has to be a proper noun, although it is not capitalized. It looks to me "coach" here functions the same way as "Mom" in "I asked Mom where my book was."
Should it be capitalized when used as title before a name? For example:
Have you talked to Coach/coach Anderson?
A discussion on a sports journalism forum on this topic has mixed opinions and seems ultimately inconclusive, so I wonder what the proper writing rules are.
nouns proper-nouns capitalization
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It's fine either way. Mom can also be in lowercase. It depends on the person's underlying usage (semantics). Colloquial English will also often drop article for nouns.
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I'm not going to play next year if coach makes me ride the pine again this season. (source)
The sentence syntactically suggests "coach" has to be a proper noun, although it is not capitalized. It looks to me "coach" here functions the same way as "Mom" in "I asked Mom where my book was."
Should it be capitalized when used as title before a name? For example:
Have you talked to Coach/coach Anderson?
A discussion on a sports journalism forum on this topic has mixed opinions and seems ultimately inconclusive, so I wonder what the proper writing rules are.
nouns proper-nouns capitalization
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I'm not going to play next year if coach makes me ride the pine again this season. (source)
The sentence syntactically suggests "coach" has to be a proper noun, although it is not capitalized. It looks to me "coach" here functions the same way as "Mom" in "I asked Mom where my book was."
Should it be capitalized when used as title before a name? For example:
Have you talked to Coach/coach Anderson?
A discussion on a sports journalism forum on this topic has mixed opinions and seems ultimately inconclusive, so I wonder what the proper writing rules are.
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It's fine either way. Mom can also be in lowercase. It depends on the person's underlying usage (semantics). Colloquial English will also often drop article for nouns.
– Jason Bassford
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It's fine either way. Mom can also be in lowercase. It depends on the person's underlying usage (semantics). Colloquial English will also often drop article for nouns.
– Jason Bassford
3 hours ago
It's fine either way. Mom can also be in lowercase. It depends on the person's underlying usage (semantics). Colloquial English will also often drop article for nouns.
– Jason Bassford
3 hours ago
It's fine either way. Mom can also be in lowercase. It depends on the person's underlying usage (semantics). Colloquial English will also often drop article for nouns.
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You correctly understand that "coach" refers to the person who is in that position, and as such is a so-called "proper noun" (see Latin "proper", relating to "entities").
But the typographic conventions that attempt to reflect such categories of Speech are not controlled by anyone who has the power to torture those who disobey those conventions, so there is considerable variation in that regard.
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The coach told me to make the play. No capitals.
I don't know why Coach Anderson told me to make the play. Capitals. It would be capitalized but is not a proper noun. Names preceded by a title call for capitals to be used.
Names of countries and cities are proper nouns or people are proper nouns, for example.
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You correctly understand that "coach" refers to the person who is in that position, and as such is a so-called "proper noun" (see Latin "proper", relating to "entities").
But the typographic conventions that attempt to reflect such categories of Speech are not controlled by anyone who has the power to torture those who disobey those conventions, so there is considerable variation in that regard.
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You correctly understand that "coach" refers to the person who is in that position, and as such is a so-called "proper noun" (see Latin "proper", relating to "entities").
But the typographic conventions that attempt to reflect such categories of Speech are not controlled by anyone who has the power to torture those who disobey those conventions, so there is considerable variation in that regard.
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You correctly understand that "coach" refers to the person who is in that position, and as such is a so-called "proper noun" (see Latin "proper", relating to "entities").
But the typographic conventions that attempt to reflect such categories of Speech are not controlled by anyone who has the power to torture those who disobey those conventions, so there is considerable variation in that regard.
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You correctly understand that "coach" refers to the person who is in that position, and as such is a so-called "proper noun" (see Latin "proper", relating to "entities").
But the typographic conventions that attempt to reflect such categories of Speech are not controlled by anyone who has the power to torture those who disobey those conventions, so there is considerable variation in that regard.
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The coach told me to make the play. No capitals.
I don't know why Coach Anderson told me to make the play. Capitals. It would be capitalized but is not a proper noun. Names preceded by a title call for capitals to be used.
Names of countries and cities are proper nouns or people are proper nouns, for example.
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The coach told me to make the play. No capitals.
I don't know why Coach Anderson told me to make the play. Capitals. It would be capitalized but is not a proper noun. Names preceded by a title call for capitals to be used.
Names of countries and cities are proper nouns or people are proper nouns, for example.
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The coach told me to make the play. No capitals.
I don't know why Coach Anderson told me to make the play. Capitals. It would be capitalized but is not a proper noun. Names preceded by a title call for capitals to be used.
Names of countries and cities are proper nouns or people are proper nouns, for example.
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The coach told me to make the play. No capitals.
I don't know why Coach Anderson told me to make the play. Capitals. It would be capitalized but is not a proper noun. Names preceded by a title call for capitals to be used.
Names of countries and cities are proper nouns or people are proper nouns, for example.
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It's fine either way. Mom can also be in lowercase. It depends on the person's underlying usage (semantics). Colloquial English will also often drop article for nouns.
– Jason Bassford
3 hours ago