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Member Introductions / Newbie :)

« on: September 17, 2011, 03:28:30 PM »

Hi! I'm Katrina. You can call me Kat. I'm an editor of our school publication and I just posted a topic on the Students' Sounding Board.

This forum shall truly help me a lot in terms of sharpening my skills. Hope to meet new friends here. Thanks!

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Students’ Sounding Board / Should "Styrofoam" have a capital "S"?

« on: September 17, 2011, 03:25:00 PM »

Good day.

I am an editor of our school publication. I edited one of my co-editors' articles, correcting the capital "S"of the word "styrofoam" to a lower case . Then he told me that "Styrofoam" is a patented name and should be capitalized. But again, I remember that this can be proper noun taken as common noun since it is used all the time.

What is the real rule behind this? Thank you very much.